Trump to sign wide-ranging bilateral deals with Armenia and Azerbaijan
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Meta has snapped up three star researchers from OpenAI's Zurich lab, escalating the fierce battle for top Artificial Intelligence talent as tech giants race to dominate the next era of artificial intelligence.
Meta has recruited three leading artificial intelligence researchers from OpenAI, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal cited by Reuters. The trio—Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai—were previously part of OpenAI's Zurich team and had earlier worked together at Google’s DeepMind unit.
This move underscores Meta’s renewed push to strengthen its AI division, as the company continues to invest in advanced research and development.
The hires are believed to be part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s broader strategy to build a high-powered team focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Meta has reportedly offered significant financial incentives to attract top talent in the AI sector, with some offers reaching up to $100 million in compensation packages.
The company is also working on enhancing its Llama series of AI models and expanding partnerships, including a recent $14 billion investment in Scale AI.
While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has acknowledged that Meta has tried to poach some of their researchers, he noted that many of OpenAI’s key personnel have chosen to remain with the company.
The ongoing competition for AI talent highlights the growing importance of human capital in driving innovation, particularly as firms seek to lead developments in generative and general AI systems.
The world’s biggest dance music festival faces an unexpected setback as a fire destroys its main stage, prompting a last-minute response from organisers determined to keep the party alive in Boom, Belgium.
According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the Oaxaca region of Mexico on Saturday.
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will send an upgraded ‘version 3.0’ free-trade agreement to their heads of government for approval in October, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday after regional talks in Kuala Lumpur.
A resumption of Iraq’s Kurdish oil exports is not expected in the near term, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, despite an announcement by Iraq’s federal government a day earlier stating that shipments would resume immediately.
Chinese automaker Chery has denied an industry-ministry audit that disqualified more than $53 million in state incentives for thousands of its electric and hybrid vehicles, insisting it followed official guidance and committed no fraud.
Scientists have discovered previously unknown communities of deep-sea creatures that survive by converting chemicals into energy, rather than feeding on organic matter, during dives into two of the Pacific Ocean’s deepest trenches.
The acting chief of the U.S. space agency NASA is expected to unveil a directive this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030, according to U.S. media reports, as the United States seeks to strengthen its space presence amid growing competition from China and Russia.
Scientists in Norway have uncovered remains of more than 40 species from around 75,000 years ago, shedding new light on Ice Age life in Scandinavia.
Türkiye’s first domestically produced electric SUV, the Togg T10X, is expected to hit the German market by the end of 2025, German daily Bild reported.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, sending an international crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA’s Crew-11 mission.
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