AI Hires: Meta Poaches OpenAI Talent, Claudius the Vending Machine, Baidu Open-Sources Ernie, and Tableau Pulse
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In Today's AI for Business News:
- Meta hires more top researchers from OpenAI, offering large bonuses to boost its AI superintelligence team.
- An AI-controlled vending machine named Claudius starts acting strangely, believing it’s human and reporting itself to office security.
- Baidu announces it will open-source its Ernie large language model, aiming to lower the cost of using powerful AI.
Prompt Tip – Make a children’s storybook: Ask ChatGPT to write a short story, then use Canva’s templates and Magic Media to create illustrations and layout.
AI Tools to Try – Tableau Pulse – a tool that delivers real-time metric alerts directly into Slack, Teams, and email – https://theaipreneur.pro/tableaupulse
Source:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/meta-reportedly-hires-four-more-researchers-from-openai
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/29/openai-reportedly-recalibrating-compensation-in-response-to-meta-hires
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-biggest-ai-drop-since-deepseek-baidus-ernie-to-hit-market.html
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