News Summary

• frontier AI labs are becoming an increasingly powerful draw for professors.
• Leading AI labs continue to amass capital, computing power, and market influence.
• "There is an allure for faculty," says Sarah Soule, the dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
• "I won't lie, I worry about this," Soule says about the trend of faculty leaving for the private sector to work in AI.
• "We see those relationships as complementary to Stanford's academic mission, not separate from it," says Kristin Harlan, the head of dean's communications for Stanford's GSB.