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US FTC to scrutinise Big Tech's talent acquisition deals: ReportThe US Federal Trade Commission is scrutinising big tech firms that hire employees of a startup instead of buying the companies outright. ...
Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, researchers to advance AI ambitions; OpenAI acquisition falls apartMohan and the Windsurf team will focus on agentic coding initiatives at Google DeepMind, primarily working on the Gemini project. The devel...
Big Tech’s acqui-hire strategy heats up as demand for AI talent soarsIn the last two years, large technology players have been acquiring AI startups for their technology teams. Microsoft paid $650 million in ...
The Times and Amazon announce an AI licensing dealAmazon's use of editorial content from the Times could extend to the Alexa software found on its smart speakers. In some instances, excerpt...
Google faces DOJ probe over Character. AI deal: ReportOther tech giants have struck similar deals in the past year in their push for growth in the heated generative AI race. Microsoft struck a ...
'Hard to find high-quality data for complex reasoning'Niki Parmar, a member of Anthropic’s technical staff and co-author of the paper Attention is All You Need, says it has become hard to find ...
How will the launch of DeepSeek app help you? Here are the benefits as other AI chatbots could take a hitThe launch of China-based startup DeepSeek's latest AI model has ended up causing a major meltdown of US tech stocks this week, something t...
Salesforce to acquire AI voice agent firm Tenyx, joining AI talent raceSalesforce has announced its acquisition of Tenyx, a startup specializing in AI-powered voice agents. The deal, expected to close in the th...
The new AI deal: buy everything but the companyWhile big tech companies typically buy startups outright, they have turned to a more complicated deal structure for young AI companies. It ...
Google hires top talent from startup Character AI, signs licensing dealCharacter.AI announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Google's parent company, Alphabet. The startup's co-founders will return to...
AI startups swap independence for Big Tech's deep pocketsIt' some of Silicon Valley's most promising names in the fast-developing generative AI space are being gobbled up by or tied to the hip of ...
FTC seeking details on Amazon deal with AI startup AdeptThe FTC is investigating Amazon’s hiring of Adept's David Luan amid AI competition with Google and Microsoft, following a January inquiry. ...
US senators call out big tech's new approach to poaching talent, products from smaller AI startupsPresident Joe Biden's administration and lawmakers from both parties have promoted stricter oversight of the tech industry recently. US ant...
Amazon lures cofounders from startup Adept to bolster AI effortsCollaborating with Rohit Prasad, I contribute to Amazon's AI advancements under CEO Andy Jassy's leadership. The tech industry closely watc...
Stability AI founder steps down to pursue 'decentralised AI'Emad Mostaque resigns from Stability AI to focus on decentralized AI. Interim co-CEOs appointed. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partn...
Top ex-Google AI researchers raise $8 million in funding from Thrive CapitalThrive Capital had led the round in Essential AI, founded by Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar. The company is still in stealth mode and hasn'...
AI startup Adept raises $350 million in fresh fundingThe funding came less than a year after it raised $65 million in April 2022, signaling strong investor interest in AI startups in an overal...