Azhar Sukri
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827 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Meta hits pause on its blockbuster AI hiring spree.
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Plus, Eric Prince, the former head of Blackwater, has a new guns-for-hire outfit, moving in where the US is stepping back.
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And we look at how soaring childcare costs are impacting the economy, the latest in our parenting series.
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It's Thursday, August 21st.
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I'm Azhar Sukri for The Wall Street Journal.
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Here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
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We are exclusively reporting that Meta Platforms is pumping the brakes on its fierce AI hiring spree after months of scooping up more than 50 artificial intelligence researchers and engineers.
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According to people familiar with the matter, a hiring freeze for the company's AI division went into effect last week, coinciding with a broader restructuring of the group, which also blocks current staffers from moving across teams inside the division.
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The arms race for AI talent has escalated in recent months, and Meta has most often pushed the pace, offering prized researchers ultra-lucrative pay packages.
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As of mid-August, the company has hired more than 20 researchers and engineers from OpenAI and picked up other hires from major tech companies including Google, Apple, XAI and Anthropic.
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A Meta spokesperson confirmed the freeze.
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And speaking of tech companies, yesterday tech stocks fell for a second straight day.
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Journal Markets reporter Caitlin McCabe has more on what's behind the recent slide.
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and central bank governors are converging on Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for their annual conference.
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It's a gathering that'll be closely watched by investors and Washington policymakers for clues about the Fed's strategy for the US economy.
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And with just nine months left in the top job, Powell will give his final Jackson Hole speech tomorrow, following months of President Trump pressuring him to cut interest rates or resign.
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The journal's chief economics correspondent, Nick Timoros, says Powell has been facing a siege on multiple fronts.
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And given these pressures, Nick explains how Powell is navigating such a turbulent period in the top job.
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Ahead of Powell's speech tomorrow, investors will receive a wave of fresh economic data.
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On deck today, initial jobless claims and a survey on manufacturing from the Philly Fed due out at 8.30am Eastern, readings from S&P Global on business activity at 9.45am, and a look at existing home sales at 10am.
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