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Meta poached Apple’s top AI executive. This will make the Sun Valley welcome reception a bit awkward. Ruoming Pang, who led Apple’s foundational models team and was considered the iPhone-maker’s top AI researcher, is leaving to work on Meta’s new AI “superintelligence” team, Bloomberg reported. The loss is a major blow to Apple’s already struggling AI efforts, with the company reportedly now considering outsourcing the model that powers Siri. For Meta, it’s another sign of how serious CEO Mark Zuckerberg is about competing in AI and developing robots that are smarter than humans. According to Bloomberg, Pang was offered a package worth “tens of millions” of dollars per year to defect.
Trump says the US will resume sending weapons to Ukraine. Just days after the White House announced it was pausing military aid to Ukraine while the Pentagon reviewed stockpiles, President Trump said the US would in fact restart shipments to the country to help it defend itself against Russia. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was not the one who ordered the pause in deliveries. The reversal comes as Russia intensifies its attacks on Kyiv and Trump grows more publicly frustrated with Vladimir Putin stonewalling attempts at a ceasefire. “He’s very nice to us all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless,” Trump said this week.
The IRS will allow churches to endorse political candidates. In a reversal of a 70-year-old policy, the Internal Revenue Service said yesterday that it will permit churches to make endorsements from the pulpit without losing their tax-exempt status. Previously, the prevailing interpretation of the tax code barred houses of worship from keeping their tax-exempt status if they formally backed political candidates, although the rule was rarely enforced. A group of churches sued the IRS last year, arguing that the rule violated their constitutional rights. First Amendment advocates applauded the news, while some experts warned that it could open the door for political campaigns to funnel money through nonprofits.—AE
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