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The AI talent wars are just getting started

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Databricks announced the largest known funding round for any private tech company in history.

The AI enterprise firm is in the final stretch of raising $10 billion , almost all of which is going to go to buying back vested employee stock.

Naveen Rao is one of my favorite people to talk to about the AI industry.

AI is in a massive growth base but it's also hit peak hype and is on the way down the Gartner hype curve.

Databricks CEO Sundar Pichai told employees this week that the company’s drip-drip series of layoffs have reduced the number of managers, directors, directors by 10 percent .

OpenAI teased its next o3 “reasoning” model with impressive evals.

TikTok convinced the Supreme Court to hear its case just before its US ban is set to take effect.

Amazon is delaying its return-to-office mandate in some cities because it doesn’t have enough office space.

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