CNBC's Deirdre Bosa joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the latest news on the AI talent race.

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The release of Open AI's ChatGPT has accelerated the development of artificial intelligence and warnings about its impact on society.

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Meta has hired Roeming Peng, previously the architect behind Apple's foundational AI models, to join its superintelligence lab. Peng led a 100-person team at Apple responsible for large language models powering features such as Genmoji, writing tools, and photo and video editing, as well as efforts to advance on-device AI capabilities.

Peng's departure comes as Apple increasingly relies on third-party AI models and faces internal challenges in its AI strategy. Meta reportedly offered Peng a lucrative package, underscoring the fierce competition among tech giants to attract leading AI researchers. The move is seen as a significant gain for Meta and a potential setback for Apple's internal AI development.

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Welcome back. Meta poaching another A.I. bigwig for its superintelligence lab, this time from Apple. Deirdre Bosa has the details on Mark Zuckerberg's latest big hire. Heidi. Hey, good morning. So that hire would be Roeming Peng, the architect behind Apple's foundational models. And he's not just walking away from a big job. He's walking away. You could see it as walking away from Apple's entire A.I. thesis. Now, Peng ran a 100-person team that builds LLMs powering Apple Intelligence. So that's Genmoji, writing tools, photo and video editing. And what it's supposed to, or at least was supposed to, power the new series. So essentially, Peng is at the center of Apple's bet that on-device models could compete with existing A.I. leaders like Open A.I. and Google. At the same time, though, Apple has been undercutting his team's mandate by leaning more on third-party models. Remember Eddie Cue's praise for perplexity and anthropic as part of his Google testimony? There's reports that Apple's in talks to replace Siri's back end with Claude or chat GPT. That's got to hurt morale. And it's not surprising, then, that when your company starts shopping for a replacement for the work that you are doing, you leave. And then there's Meta and Zuckerberg ready with a new package reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars and a bench that is quickly becoming a who's who of A.I. talent and a mission that hits at the purpose researchers care most about right now. That is building something that can compete at the frontier or be first to what comes after superintelligence or A.G.I. So while this looks like a win for Meta, this may be something far more damaging for Apple. Yet another crack in its internal A.I. efforts with Peng gone, too, and Zuckerberg still on the hunt. Others could follow. We did a quick LinkedIn search, guys, for some of the other A.I. researchers still at Apple on that team. It includes talent from Google DeepMind, bite dance Ph.D.'s from Berkeley. Now, perhaps low hanging fruit for someone like Zuckerberg. I wonder, given the fact that obviously Mark Zuckerberg is interested in just pulling in talent from all corners of this emerging world, is everybody's A.I. research effort pretty much interchangeable with the others? In other words, are they not on different tracks trying different modes of figuring out what works? Or is he just sort of maybe collecting them all and seeing what what ends up coming out the best? I think the mission that they all share is superintelligence or A.G.I. That is artificial intelligence that is even better, even smarter than humans. And sort of that's what a lot of folks here in Silicon Valley and tech talk about is whoever owns that, whoever gets to that first sort of owns the next leg of the A.I. arms race. What that is, though, is open to interpretation. It's extremely vague. There's different ways of defining it. When do you know? How do you know that you're at A.G.I. or superintelligence? But that's sort of what these researchers are all interested in is being at the frontier, pushing that and, you know, creating products once you get there. But of course, there is sort of that phase before then, which some of the folks I talked to say that A.G.I. doesn't really matter. It's about how you monetize these things, how you get them in consumers' hands, how you scale it. But you can work on both. And I think that's sort of like the Holy Grail for serious, really intense A.I. researchers is they want to do both. When you have an apple that's sort of really failing on the A.I. side, pushing the frontier, you can go to a place like Meta that says they're going to focus on both. Really powerful stuff, I thought to myself this morning when I was getting ready. I hope my kids are interested in learning about A.I. That could be a good career field for the long run. Thank you so much. Appreciate it, Dee.

CNN’s Josh Cambell reports on questions over a lack of flood warning signals and lagging investment in river gauges in Kerr County after deadly floods killed over 100 people in Central Texas.

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Officials face questions over preparedness for Texas floods

Hundreds of firefighters battled a fast-moving wildfire that reached the outskirts of the southern French city of Marseille on Tuesday, forcing people to stay indoors and the nearby airport to close.

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France wildfire shuts down Marseille airport

Liverpool's Portuguese forward Diogo Jota was probably speeding when the Lamborghini car he was driving crashed in northwestern Spain, killing him and his brother, police said in a preliminary report.

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Liverpool's Jota likely speeding when car crashed, police say

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Britain on Tuesday for a state visit mixing royal pageantry with thorny political talks about stopping migrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats.

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UK royals welcome France's Macron for state visit

U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine as Russian attacks intensified in recent weeks. The decision comes after the U.S. halted certain shipments last week.

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Trump says U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine

Brazil hosted the second and final day of the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

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BRICS summit ends on health issues, role of global south countries

U.S. President Donald Trump, hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, said the United States had scheduled talks with Iran and indicated progress on a controversial effort to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza.

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Netanyahu meets Trump as Israel, Hamas discuss ceasefire

Search teams continue to look for survivors after catastrophic flash floods overwhelmed parts of the US state of Texas. About 100 people have been killed and dozens more are missing. Officials say the National Weather Service didn't provide enough warning of the heavy rain.

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Rising Texas death toll fuels anger over 'inadequate warning'

Leaders of BRICS have warned of the dangers of tariffs - saying they don't want a confrontation with US President Donald Trump. The group of emerging nations made the comments at their summit in Brazil. They also discussed Gaza and tensions in the Middle East.

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BRICS summit rejects U.S. tariff threats, tackles trade and Gaza

Video captured by a BBC News crew shows French police slashing a boat filled with migrants trying to cross into the U.K. The crackdown comes ahead of a summit this week between the French president and British prime minister.

French police slashing migrants’ boat in crackdown

President Donald Trump's Justice Department and FBI released a memo concluding that there is no evidence Jeffrey Epstein had a "client list." The FBI confirmed that more than 1,000 victims were harmed by Epstein.

FBI: Epstein investigation turned up no 'incriminating client list'

The death toll from the devastating floods in Texas has risen to at least 90 as rescue workers continue to search for dozens of missing people. At least 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic in central Texas died in the floods.

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At least 90 people killed in Texas floods

A shooter is dead after opening fire at a U.S. Border Patrol building in McAllen, Texas, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said. CBS News' Shanelle Kaul has the latest updates.

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Shooter killed after opening fire at U.S. Border Patrol building

Israel’s military launched airstrikes early on Monday targeting ports and facilities held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The strikes followed a suspected Houthi attack on a ship in the Red Sea.

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Israel strikes Yemen ports held by Houthi rebels

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with U.S. President Trump at the White House on Monday. The two leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Gaza and a potential ceasefire with Hamas.

Netanyahu set to meet Trump at White House amid ceasefire optimism

U.S. President Donald Trump's 90-day pause on global tariffs announced in April is nearing its expiration, and the White House warned that steeper tariffs could roll out at the beginning of August.

White House warns higher tariffs could roll out August 1

Erin Patterson, the Australian woman accused of killing three relatives with a meal of death cap mushrooms baked in a Beef Wellington lunch, has been found guilty of three counts of murder and the attempted murder of the lone survivor.

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Australian woman found guilty in ‘mushroom murder’ trial

Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp along the Guadalupe River, has confirmed that at least 27 campers and counselors died in the devastating floods that hit the Texas camp.

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Camp Mystic confirms 27 campers, counselors killed in floods

President Donald Trump called Elon Musk's plans to form a new political party "ridiculous," launching new barbs at the tech billionaire.

Trump criticizes Musk's new 'America Party' as feud grows

Rescuers are searching for more than 40 people still missing, after flooding in the US state of Texas. The death toll has risen to at least 82, including 28 children - many of them from a summer camp. President Donald Trump has declared the area a disaster zone.

Death toll from Texas floods rises to 82, dozens still missing

BRICS leaders set to discuss key global political issues, but questions over the bloc’s cohesion arose as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin opted to skip the summit.

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BRICS group slams tariffs, Iran conflict at summit in Brazil

The search for missing children from a girls' summer camp hit by flash floods in Texas entered a third day on Sunday, as rescuers faced the threat of more flooding and the death toll in the region reached at least 67.

Texas officials face questions over flood warnings

Search and rescue missions continue in Kerr County, Texas, after severe storms caused deadly flooding that has killed dozens of people. More than 20 children from the nearby Camp Mystic are still missing, officials say.

Texas campground owner describes flash floods: "It was just chaos"

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he has formed a new political party after falling out with U.S. President Donald Trump over the "One Big Beautiful Bill."

Elon Musk launches 'American Party'

Israel has sent a delegation to Qatar for new indirect talks on a possible hostage and ceasefire deal despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the changes requested by Hamas to a previous proposal were "unacceptable."

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Israel, Hamas delegations resume truce talks over Gaza in Doha

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei received an enthusiastic welcome at a mosque in Tehran as he made his first public appearance since the start of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran.

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Iran's Supreme Leader makes first public appearance since war started

Search-and-rescue operations are expected to continue as the death toll continues to rise from Friday's flash flooding in central Texas, with authorities confirming at least 50 deaths so far, 15 of those children. Among the missing are girls from a Christian summer camp.

Death toll rises as search for Texas flood survivors continues

Rescuers are searching for survivors of a flash flood that hit central Texas on Friday, leaving at least 43 people dead, including 15 children. Authorities in Texas are now facing questions about whether they issued proper warnings in advance of rain-fuelled flooding.

Death toll from Texas flooding rises to 43

Experts link the rising frequency and intensity of heatwaves in Europe to climate change, warning that such extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common.

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Firefighters across Europe battle wildfires

Rallies on the streets of Tel Aviv were held as the Israeli security cabinet reportedly gathered to discuss Hamas' response to a potential ceasefire-hostage deal.

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