🔥 Dominance is intensifying
AI talent wars, new social media, and strategic moves
🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD
Elon Musk's xAI is now poaching top talent from Meta's AI team, reversing a trend that had seen Meta aggressively hire from competitors. This talent war highlights the fierce competition to achieve AGI. Simultaneously, Character.AI has launched an AI-based social feed, a potential new form of social media, though its appeal to users is still an open question.
In other strategic moves, OpenAI is reportedly eyeing a $500 billion valuation, while Microsoft has hired a co-founder of Google's DeepMind to boost its AI efforts. On the technical front, Claude Code is now able to automate security reviews, and Alibaba has open-sourced its Qwen Code CLI for agentic coding, making advanced development tools more accessible.
🦾 AI daily pulse
Elon Musk does reverse poaching from Mark Zuckerberg’s AI team: ‘xAI has more potential than Meta’
The Silicon Valley’s race to achieve AGI in the post-ChatGPT era is driving a hiring war among top tech companies. Meta’s Mark Zuckberg’s ruthless poaching of top talents from OpenAI and other firms for Meta Superintellence Labs created paranoia earlier, only for the Sam Altman-company to later Reverse Uno by poaching back some of Meta’s AI talent. [LINK]
Character.AI has introduced an AI-based social feed that may point to the future of social media, Kurt Wagner reports in today’s Tech In Depth. But after sampling the service, Wagner writes that he’s not sure artificial conversations created by an algorithm are exactly what people want in their social feeds. [LINK]
Inside CHSN01: China’s high-strength steel powering next-gen fusion reactors [LINK]
⚡️ Top trends
OpenAI eyes $500 billion valuation in potential employee share sale, source says [LINK]
Instagram takes on Snapchat with new ‘Instagram Map’ [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Automate security reviews with Claude Code [LINK]
Alibaba open-sources Qwen Code CLI for agentic coding [LINK]
🔮 What else
Microsoft MSFT -1.12%decrease; red down pointing triangle hired one of the founders of Google’s DeepMind to help it catch up in the AI race. [LINK]
