Meta poaches Apple’s newly appointed head of AI search project

Meta’s streak of hiring high-profile executives from Apple’s AI team continues, with the company reportedly poaching Ke Yang, who had only recently been appointed to lead Apple’s rumored ChatGPT-like search project. Here are the details.

Apple’s brain drain continues

In recent months, Apple has lost several machine learning researchers and executives to AI rivals, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and, notably, Meta, which has been on a hiring spree across Silicon…