{
  "id": 7422791,
  "title": "OPINION. We need to attract brains – and retain the ones already here",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/opiniao-precisamos-atrair-cerebros-e-reter-os-que-ja-estao-aqui",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-14T23:25:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Brazil Journal",
    "slug": "brazil-journal",
    "url": "https://braziljournal.com/opiniao-precisamos-atrair-cerebros-e-reter-os-que-ja-estao-aqui/"
  },
  "original_language": "pt",
  "account": "Big Tech companies are competing fiercely for artificial intelligence talent, with Meta offering researchers packages worth up to $300 million over four years. In response, Sam Altman granted bonuses to around 1,000 research and engineering professionals. The global market for highly skilled workers is increasingly competitive, with countries and companies vying for exceptional talent. The article notes that over 70% of postgraduate computer science students in US universities are foreigners, and 42% of top-tier AI researchers globally work in the US. Brazil is losing out in the competition for AI talent, with a shortage of skilled professionals and a brain drain of its own citizens.",
  "summary": "Big Techs are competing in an unprecedented race for artificial intelligence talent. At Meta, Mark Zuckerberg began offering researchers compensation packages of up to $300 million over four years, intensifying a dispute that had already mobilized the sector's main companies. Sam Altman reacted and granted bonuses to around a thousand professionals.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}