If AI IP is existential, why base in California where non-competes are unenforceable?
tszzl · x · 2026-09-18
Replying to a thread on protecting core research talent, tszzl highlights a contradiction: if AI labs' IP is truly precious enough to risk existential catastrophe, why stay headquartered in California, where non-competes can't be enforced? Talent circulates between labs in a revolving door, leaking 'alpha' everywhere. He sarcastically notes a 'serious company' would relocate research talent to states where non-competes hold.
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