EP-317 Meta’s Ai Talent Shuffle 🤖, Coreweave’s $9b Expansion 💼, Epic’s Settlement Victory ⚖️

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for tuesday, july 8th! here are today's top stories:

• meta's strategic hire: meta is recruiting ruoming pang, apple's head of ai models, to join its ai superintelligence unit, bolstering their team with expertise in on-device ai.
• coreweave's acquisition: coreweave acquires data center provider core scientific in a $9 billion all-stock deal, marking a shift from bitcoin mining to ai workloads.
• epic games & samsung settlement: epic games settles its lawsuit with samsung over alleged collusion with google, dismissing the case and ending challenges against rival app stores.
• chatgpt's "study together" feature: openai is testing a new feature within chatgpt that encourages collaborative educational interactions, potentially supporting educational environments.
• apple's eu appeal: apple is appealing a €500 million fine related to app store payment restrictions, arguing that the penalty exceeds legal requirements and adjusting its fee structures in response.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!