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META TO CREATE NEW APPLIED AI ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION

Meta is creating a new applied AI engineering organization to help bolster its superintelligence efforts. The new teams will be led by Maher Saba, current vice-president of the Reality Labs division. The organization will partner with Meta's Superintelligence Lab to build a data engine that helps its models get better, faster. Meta plans to start shipping its new models and products in the coming months.

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN DEFENDS PENTAGON WORK TO STAFF, CALLS BACKLASH ‘REALLY PAINFUL'

Sam Altman recently told staff at an all-hands meeting that while he didn't regret signing a deal with the Department of War, he wished he hadn't announced the decision so soon as it looked opportunistic and sloppy. Altman has been widely criticized for what appeared to be capitulation to the Pentagon by essentially agreeing to a deal that allowed AI to be used in all lawful use cases. Many OpenAI employees have called for the company to sign a deal that explicitly bans the use of its technology for mass surveillance and full autonomous weapons. Altman says the backlash was 'really painful' as he claims he tried hard to do the right thing.

ALIBABA QWEN'S TECH LEAD JUNYANG LIN, 2 OTHER RESEARCHERS STEP DOWN

Junyang Lin, the tech lead for Alibaba's Qwen AI team, and two other researchers have stepped down, leaving a significant public-facing void. Lin, pivotal in Qwen's rise to global prominence and known for candid discussions on Chinese AI constraints, had led the team to over 600 million model downloads. Alibaba has not announced a successor, but Lin's next steps will likely draw attention from the global AI community.

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