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Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T

Tesla proposes new pay package for Elon Musk worth up to $1T: Tesla has proposed a new 10-year compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion even as the EV maker's car business stumbles and it sets its sights on humanoid robotics and AI. Read More

OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex Codes: Acqui-hires feel like they're here to stay: the team behind Alex Codes, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple's development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI. Read More

Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem: Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI. Read More

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Facebook is trying to make 'pokes' happen again

Facebook is trying to make 'pokes' happen again: The poke-tracking feature is largely designed to appeal to younger users who have grown up with gamification elements built into their social apps, like Snapchat and TikTok Streaks. Read More

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