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GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic

4 months 2 weeks ago
Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing

Anthropic has become the latest company to benefit from the US government's frenetic AI adoption pace, inking a deal to get its software into the hands of federal agencies at a deep discount.…

Brandon Vigliarolo

Microsoft is Trying To Poach Meta AI Talent and Offering Multimillion-Dollar Pay Packages

4 months 2 weeks ago
Microsoft has compiled a spreadsheet of Meta AI employees by name, location and position as part of an aggressive recruiting push to sustain its AI-driven march toward a $4 trillion market valuation, according to internal documents viewed by Business Insider. The company created a "critical AI talent" designation enabling top offers within 24 hours and mandated matching Meta's compensation packages, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says reach $100 million signing bonuses and recently hit $250 million total packages. Microsoft AI under Mustafa Suleyman and CoreAI under ex-Meta engineering boss Jay Parikh have deployed special recruiting teams making multimillion-dollar offers with multimillion-dollar on-hire bonuses, while the company maintains flat headcount after cutting thousands of employees this year.

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Oh, great.Three notorious cybercrime gangs appear to be collaborating

4 months 2 weeks ago
Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ spent the weekend bragging to each other on a Telegram channel

Prolific cybercrime collectives Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, and Lapsus$ appear to be working together to break into businesses' networks, steal their data, and force an extortion payment.…

Jessica Lyons