🔴Silicon Valley AI Talent War Intensifies: Zuckerberg Emails Personally, OpenAI Delivers Soup Silicon Valley’s AI talent war is heating up: Cursor builds exclusive Slack channels and sends custom gifts to top candidates; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally emails to poach talent; OpenAI is learning to send soup as a goodwill gesture. A former Google HR exec says spending $100 million to land someone is still “worth it”—but elite talent cares more about mission alignment than pure compensation. DA’s Take: Soup, gifts, personal emails… Silicon Valley recruiting has now escalated to competing on “human touch.” But true top talent isn’t short on money—they’re short on the feeling that “this is worth doing.” Whoever can make them believe they’re changing the world wins. 🧐What do you think: If the pay is roughly the same, would a personal letter or a bowl of soup make you choose one company over another?