This Week in Apple: Glass backwards

Apple executives are on the move and so is the opacity level of Liquid Glass. And, look, if you don’t want to read the third section, I won’t blame you.

Tech exec tectonics

They say that an executive in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.

I mean, presumably someone says this.

Apple saw several executives on the move this week as one was poached by Meta for big bucks.

“Apple Loses Key AI Executive to Meta’s Multimillion-Dollar Hiring Spree”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been offering AI engineers massive pay packages to poach them from other companies…

Before you complain about Meta’s predatory practices, have you tried the poached executive? It’s delicious.

Ruoming Pang, who manages Apple’s foundation models team, is moving from Apple to Meta. … Meta lured Pang with a deal worth tens of millions of dollars per year.

The language models aren’t the only things that are large in AI.…