Mark Zuckerberg Is Taking Control of AI Talent Hiring at Meta

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The CEO of Meta has taken the recruitment reins as he tries to address an AI crisis at his company. WSJ technology reporter Meghan Bobrowsky explains that the chief executive is armed with $100-million pay packages to lure top talent. Plus, after years of work, robots are finally able to load and unload a truck. It might seem a basic task, but WSJ reporter Esther Fung tells us why it’s the holy grail of tech innovation. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every day, you're faced with millions of data points, making crucial research noisier than ever before.
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0:34.7	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, June 25th. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.9	The Holy Grail of automation is a task us humans perform with ease, but one that robots have really struggled with.
0:47.9	Our reporter explains how years of work has led to a technological breakthrough.
0:53.0	Then, the smartest minds and artificial intelligence have been getting personalized recruitment
0:57.6	letters to join Meta from Mark Zuckerberg himself.
1:00.9	We'll tell you why the CEO has been so actively involved.
1:06.4	But first, loading and unloading a truck, it's backbreaking, mind-numbing work for humans.
1:12.3	And it's a problem that retailers and package delivery companies have been trying to solve for their employees for literal years.
1:19.4	Now, thanks to advances in AI, robots are able to offer assistance in this particular job, as WSJ reporter Esther Fung has been writing about.
1:28.7	So Esther, you call this the holy grail of warehouse logistics. Why has it taken so long to develop a robot to do
1:35.0	what seems like such a basic task? Yes, it has taken this long and it's so difficult because of the
1:41.4	variety of packages. They could be small packages. They could be big ones.
1:47.9	They could be round ones. They could also be carrying tires. They could be carrying trampolines.
1:53.8	It runs the gamut. And you need a loader or an unloader that can do all of that, this has taken a long time for robotics companies
2:03.3	to figure out. So how does it work? And how quickly could we see this kind of technology
2:08.5	rolled out in warehouses? We are already seeing some of this technology show up in certain warehouses.
2:14.7	There's a cottage industry of robotics companies making these robots.
2:19.4	Right now, these robots can definitely handle packages that are more generic in their dimensions.
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