India crowns Meta AI; More layoffs hit techIndia is now the ground zero for Meta’s AI push, WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart told us. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
14 May, 2026, 07.53 PM IST
Who is Alan Dye? Top Apple design executive poached by Meta in a major coupMeta poaches Apple design chief: Meta has hired Alan Dye, Apple’s longtime head of user interface design, in a major talent coup that highl...
04 Dec, 2025, 07.49 PM IST
Meta signs $10 billion-plus cloud deal with GoogleMeta has struck a $10 billion, six-year cloud computing deal with Google, marking one of the largest in Google Cloud’s history. The agreeme...
22 Aug, 2025, 07.47 AM IST
Top Meta engineers have joined xAI: CEO Elon MuskTaking to X, Musk revealed that many former Meta engineers have joined his AI startup, xAI. However, he pointed out that unlike Meta, xAI i...
04 Aug, 2025, 04.29 PM IST
AI talent war: Amid reports of Meta’s $200 million offer, what is Zuckerberg trying to ‘buy but can’t’, according to Anthropic’s CEO?Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has criticised Meta’s aggressive attempts to poach AI talent, stating that his company will not match the in...
03 Aug, 2025, 08.01 PM IST
China is building the future of AI, not Silicon Valley, says Alibaba Cloud founderInnovation and not patents should drive organisations. What is needed is the right talent, not expensive talent, he said. He was alluding t...
01 Aug, 2025, 09.40 PM IST
Meta's year of bold 'superintelligence' bets unlikely to pump profitsFor the second quarter, though, Wall Street is bracing for disappointment as Meta is set to report its slowest profit growth in two years o...
29 Jul, 2025, 03.34 PM IST
Money isn’t everything: Meta’s Superintelligence Labs roundly rejected by some despite tempting pay offersMeta is trying hard to get top AI experts for its Superintelligence Labs. They are offering big salaries to compete with OpenAI and Google....
11 Jul, 2025, 04.17 PM IST
Why Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is offering jobs worth $100 million to poach AI talent from Apple, OpenAIMeta is aggressively expanding its AI division, Superintelligence Labs, by poaching top talent from competitors like Apple and OpenAI. Mark...
10 Jul, 2025, 06.55 PM IST
Meta’s shocking $200 million offer to this Apple AI engineer is blowing minds — meet Ruoming PangMeta poaches Apple AI engineer Ruoming Pang with a jaw-dropping $200 million pay package, shaking up the AI job market. Pang, who led Apple...
10 Jul, 2025, 06.30 PM IST
AI talent wars: Altman's OpenAI poaches top engineers from Musk, Zuckerberg firmsOpenAI has fired the latest salvo in AI talent wars, hiring four top engineers from xAI, Tesla, and Meta, with days of Meta bagging Apple’s...
09 Jul, 2025, 08.09 PM IST
AI talent war heats up: Why startups and tech giants are offering jaw-dropping salaries to secure top minds?Tech companies are shelling out massive premiums, up to $200,000, for professionals with AI and machine learning skills, even when they’re ...
07 Jul, 2025, 05.39 PM IST
OpenAI shutting down for a week amid Meta’s aggressive AI hiring pushMark Zuckerberg has been hiring aggressively to build an AI team and had offered signing bonuses as high as $100 million to some OpenAI emp...
01 Jul, 2025, 07.12 AM IST
Meta in talks to acquire voice cloning startup PlayAI: ReportMeta is reportedly in advanced discussions to acquire PlayAI, a voice cloning startup, signaling its continued focus on securing top AI tal...
27 Jun, 2025, 04.43 PM IST
Meta hires three OpenAI researchers: ReportMeta hired Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, who were all working in OpenAI's Zurich office, the report said.
26 Jun, 2025, 02.03 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg made abortive attempt to buy ex-OpenAI executive Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup: ReportDays after Sam Altman accused Zuckerberg of trying to poach OpenAI's talent, reports have emerged that Meta has been out shopping for other...
20 Jun, 2025, 11.40 AM IST
Meta finalises Scale AI deal, valuing startup at $29 billion; recruits its CEO for 'superintelligence' teamMeta has finalised an investment of $14.3 billion in Scale AI, valuing the startup at over $29 billion. Scale CEO Alexandr Wang will join M...
13 Jun, 2025, 08.11 AM IST