TNB Tech Minute: Meta Hires Top Apple AI Researcher as Part of AI Recruitment Push

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: U.S. trade restrictions and AI chip delays cause Samsung's second-quarter operating profit to plunge. Amazon Prime Day is now extended to a full four days. Ariana Aspuru hosts. Programming note: Starting this week, Tech News Briefing episodes will be released on Tuesdays and Fridays, and the TNB Tech Minute will be released twice on weekdays, in the morning and afternoon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.4	Pre-order Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 and play the foundry demo.
0:31.8	Here's your TMB Tech Minute for the morning of Tuesday, July 8th.
0:35.8	I'm Mariana Aspuru for the Wall Street Journal.
0:38.8	Meta Platforms has hired another top name as part of a week's long recruitment push.
0:43.5	Apple AI researcher Roaming Pang is joining Meta's new Super Intelligence AI Division
0:48.4	and is set to receive a pay package in the tens of millions of dollars, according to people
0:53.0	familiar with the matter. This is the latest in a string of expensive of dollars, according to people familiar with the matter.
0:54.6	This is the latest in a string of expensive hires by Mark Zuckerberg, as Meta seeks to regain
0:59.5	momentum in the AI space.
1:02.1	Last week, Zuckerberg announced 11 hires for the new lab, including researchers from Open
1:06.9	AI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.
1:09.8	Samsung Electronics expects its second quarter operating profit to more than have from a year
1:14.8	earlier due to U.S. trade restrictions.
1:17.5	Delays in supplying advanced AI chips to Nvidia also contributed to Samsung's down earnings.
1:23.2	The South Korean tech giant attributed the plunge in earnings guidance
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