Facebook then hired Yann LeCun, an NYU professor, to establish the company’s AI-research lab; Uber poached some 40 Carnegie Mellon researchers to work on driverless cars.
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Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
21 July 2026
Meta poached a top executive at Amazon’s cloud division, AWS, to help build out its data center infrastructure business, The Wall Street Journal reports.
For the past six months, the Aussies have stewed – and rallied — behind a one-word analysis from the World Cup draw that put them in the same four-team pod with Team USA, Turkey and Paraguay.
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Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
Without the feel-good story of a Cal Ripken to turn things around, NHL owners simply stewed.
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Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 May 2026
Manila clams are woven into Italian cuisine, tossed in pasta or served steamed.
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Kasha Patel,
CNN Money,
18 July 2026
But don’t miss the crispy duck and walnut, and matsutake steamed chicken at the equally satisfying but more casual Yunnan specialty restaurant, Horizon.
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