poaching
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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
In Mozambique between 2010 and 2023, 426 lions were killed as a result of contact with humans with a quarter linked to deliberate poaching.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
Kruger had noted a link between failed polygraph tests on its rangers and a surge in poaching, with follow-up investigations resulting in the dismissal of seven staff, it said.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
His bespectacled, quipping presence lent the show some book-world class, the new medium poaching prestige from the old.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
It would totally make up for Babbage poaching her book if this was, in fact, for Book Scavenger.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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