poaching

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Some of the local defense companies found themselves sometimes poaching talent from each other, and realized they were ultimately hurting themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Zuckerberg embarked on a major recruitment campaign last year to acquire talent for the Meta's efforts, poaching Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang and putting him in charge of a newly formed unit called Superintelligence Labs.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Meta has also struggled to establish itself as a top AI player compared to competitors such as Google, Anthropic and OpenAI, despite aggressively poaching top talent to form Meta Superintelligence Labs last summer.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Williams said there were problems locally involving fly-grazing - where animals are left on land without permission - as well as hare coursing and poaching.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

“Not Lord Cunningham’s stream, is it? You’ll find enough trouble without poaching there.”

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff