Inside Silicon Valley’s AI Talent War

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A.M. Edition for March 28. Tech companies are serving up million-dollar-a-year compensation packages and a host of other perks amid a shortage in AI talent. WSJ tech reporter Katherine Bindley pulls back the curtain on the fight to attract the right candidates. Plus, Google finds that Russian troll farms linked to the late founder of the Wagner Group are alive and peddling disinformation. And Home Depot eyes a future beyond its big orange stores. Luke Vargas hosts. Listening on Google Podcasts? Here's our guide for switching to a different podcast player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Did you know you can listen to this show ad free on Amazon Music included with your Prime membership?
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0:16.3	It is sentencing day for former crypto king Sam Bankman-freed with prosecutors pushing in up to
0:21.6	50-year prison term.
0:23.8	Plus Russian troll farms linked to the late founder of the Wagner group
0:27.2	are alive and peddling disinformation,
0:30.3	and we'll go inside Big Tech's AI Talent Wars.
0:34.0	At the beginning of a technology transition, things are changing very rapidly.
0:38.0	You need a depth of knowledge.
0:40.0	I spoke with someone who's with a career services platform that
0:43.2	chatted with six different candidates who had job offers from open AI and
0:47.4	their median pay was $925,000.
0:52.1	It's Thursday, March 28th.
0:54.5	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,
0:56.5	and here is the AM edition of What's News?
0:59.6	The top headlines and business stories
1:01.5	moving your world today.
1:05.0	U.S. officials are pledging to reopen a vital shipping lane in Baltimore blocked by this week's collapse of the
1:15.2	Francis Scott Key Bridge, as federal investigators say a full report on what happened could
1:21.0	take between one to two years to complete.
1:24.6	According to Vice Admiral Peter Gautier, about a dozen ships remain in Baltimore's
1:29.6	port and they can't get out until debris and the stricken container ship that caused the bridge collapse are removed from the disaster site. A task complicated by 56 containers carrying hazardous materials on board the container ship, some of which were breached.
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