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.Just when we thought the primary battle was between Tesla's ((TSLA) ...