Meta’s October 2025 Shockwave: AI Gambits, Sky-High Stock & Bold New Bet$ Unveiled
Major News and Moves in October 2025 AI Talent: Poaching Spree Meets a Reality Check Meta kicked off October with bold moves in the AI talent arms race. The company confirmed it had wooed Andrew Tulloch – co-founder of a prominent AI startup – to join Meta’s AI research teamts2.tech. Unofficial reports put Tulloch’s pay package as high as $1.5 billion over six years, including salary, stock, and bonusests2.tech. This eye-popping offer exemplified Zuckerberg’s “win at all costs” approach to AI: he reportedly courted at least a dozen engineers from the same startup after its CEO (Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO)