“Larry Birnbaum, a professor of computer science at Northwestern University was recruiting a promising PhD to become a graduate researcher. Simultaneously, Google was wooing the student. And when he visited the tech giant’s campus in Mountain View, Calif., the company slated him to chat with its cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai, who are collectively worth about $140 billion and command over 183,000 employees.” AI companies are throwing big money at newly minted PhDs, sparking fears of an academic ‘brain drain’ https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ai-companies-are-throwing-big-money-at-newly-minted-phds-sparking-fears-of-an-academic-brain-drain/ar-AA1HpnpH
