Google is tapping a special pool of stock compensation to retain DeepMind researchers as a competitive measure against OpenAI.
Google has awarded select DeepMind researchers large restricted stock grants worth up to millions of dollars.
Apple plans to relocate its San Diego-based Data Operations Annotations team, which supports improving Siri's accuracy, to Austin (reported by sources).
Sources say 121 staff are impacted by the planned move; employees who cannot transfer or find other roles will be let go.
Walter de Heer and Ma Lei are reported co-leaders of the graphene semiconductor research teams in Atlanta and Tianjin.
Apple announces that longtime directors Al Gore and James Bell will retire from its board this year.
Parker Harris is a cofounder and the CTO of Salesforce.
Salesforce cofounder and CTO Parker Harris will replace Cal Henderson as Slack's CTO.
Cal Henderson, Slack's CTO and the company's last remaining cofounder, is stepping down effective immediately.