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Deputy Editor @verge and author of Command Line, a newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation

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RT @Yuchenj_UW: Sam Altman was asked how he felt about Zuck and Meta poaching OpenAI’s top talent. “Fine. good. ” he said. Behind Jony….
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RT @tszzl: every place i visit people are using the hell out of chatgpt. on their laptops on their phones, talking about it ambiently.
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Alex Heath
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OpenAI’s head of recruiting (who used to be a senior AI leader at Meta).
@jquinonero
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
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It’s unethical (and reeks of desperation) to give people “exploding offers” that expire within hours, and to ask them to sign before they even have a chance to tell their current manager. Meta, you know better than this. Put people first.
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RT @brewmarkets: Annual compensation:. CEO of Uber: $39.4M.CEO of Apple: $74.6M.CEO of Microsoft: $79.1M.Meta AI researcher: $100M.
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Alex Heath
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Zuck will pay an AI researcher more than LeBron and they’ll still post the news on X first.
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Alex Heath
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so an… AI agent?.
@saranormous
sarah guo // conviction
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not yet written about, but funny - there are now folks helping researchers negotiate their comp packages and taking a fee. like agents for athletes.
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RT @nikitabier: Ladies and gentlemen, I've officially posted my way to the top:. I'm joining @X as Head of Product. 𝕏 is the most importan….
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RT @doomie: OpenAI employees during recharge week:
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Alex Heath
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spends a super long flight to Europe trying to mentally check out from work. immediately sees a major AI CEO while picking up checked bags at small regional airport.
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Alex Heath
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RT @ai_for_success: OpenAI employee reacting to Meta hiring 4 researchers:.Surprisingly, the post seems to be deleted, I can’t find it anym….
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Alex Heath
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I tried Runway’s video game generator, which is rolling out over the next several days to everyone . The CEO tells me he’s talking to a bunch of gaming companies about doing deals . AI is coming for video games
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Alex Heath
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RT @alexeheath: In an internal meeting today, a top Meta exec said Sam Altman was "dishonest" for saying that the company is offering $100….
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Alex Heath
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More here, plus a few more scoops
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Alex Heath
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In the same meeting, another Meta exec explained how they are going to compete with ChatGPT. “We are not going to go right after ChatGPT and try and do a better job with helping you write your emails at work,” Cox said. “We need to differentiate here by not focusing obsessively.
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Alex Heath
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In an internal meeting today, a top Meta exec said Sam Altman was "dishonest" for saying that the company is offering $100 million bonuses to poach OpenAI employees. “Sam is known to exaggerate, and in this case, I know exactly why he’s doing it, which is because we are.
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Alex Heath
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RT @giffmana: hey all, couple quick notes:.1) yes, we will be joining Meta. 2) no, we did not get 100M sign-on, that's fake news. Excited….
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Alex Heath
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Larry kind of called everything.
@gilbert
Ben Gilbert
14 days
This is insane. Larry Page, 25 (!) years ago on "the ultimate version of Google":
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Alex Heath
14 days
another one who, according to Altman, is not part of the "best people" group
@ZeffMax
Max Zeff
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SCOOP: Meta has hired a key OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to build AI reasoning models, TechCrunch has learned. Bansal helped kickstart OpenAI's work on reinforcement learning, and was a key leader behind the company's first AI reasoning model, o1.
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Alex Heath
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RT @aaronpholmes: Scoop: We got new details of the ongoing negotiations between OpenAI and Microsoft over "AGI" and "sufficient AGI," two t….
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Alex Heath
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in the words of Sam Altman, these are not OpenAI's "best people".
@MeghanBobrowsky
Meghan Bobrowsky
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Scoop: Meta has poached three OpenAI researchers: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai, according to people familiar with the matter. An OpenAI spox confirmed the three have left the company.
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