Person
Jason Droege
Lately: Scale AI as Interim Chief Executive Officer, from Scale AI.
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Jason Droege to Scale AI as Interim Chief Executive Officer
Kept Scale AI stable for Meta's minority-stake partnership at the exact moment its founder departed.
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Hiring & Talent
The Biggest AI Hires of 2025
Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.
Capital & Markets
The Year of the Acqui-Hire
OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia and Cognition spent a combined tens of billions in 2025 and 2026 buying companies mainly to secure the specific people running them, a pattern regulators are only beginning to name.