Google Goes Windsurfing in the AI War for Talent

In a very agile, clever, and surprising move, Google's parent company Alphabet ( GOOGL ) swept into the debris of OpenAI's bid for the AI coding startup Windsurf and came out with the latest and greatest of prize possessions: top talent. On Friday, I had just profiled "Zuck the Poacher" in my weekly dive into all-things AI about the Meta Platforms ( META ) CEO's  aggressive strategy of buying, bribing, and stealing AI talent anywhere he could.