OpenAI’s Altman: Meta unsuccessfully tried poaching its employees with $100 million offers

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Mark Zuckerberg is on a hiring spree as he tries to build a “superintelligence” team at Meta to achieve AGI before anyone else. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Zuckerberg has been unsuccessful at poaching the company’s top engineers, even while offering them “$100 million signing bonuses” and compensation packages worth more than that.

Meta just agreed to pay $14 billion to acquire a 49% stake in training data startup Scale AI and hired away its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to lead the effort. Now they just need to figure out what AGI actually looks like, and when it might appear.

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President Trump hosts tech executives and their guests to a dinner at the White House in the Oval Office.

Here are the Trump ties among the tech leaders who had dinner at the White House

Many of the attendees have donated to, vocally supported, or even worked for the president.

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Tesla’s EV market share declined to 38% in August

In August, Tesla’s share of the US EV market fell to 38%, according to new data from Cox Automotive reported by Reuters. Tesla’s market share fell below 50% for the first time last year, as competitors’ EVs began hitting the market. Now, as Tesla’s own sales slip more drastically than they had last year, it’s giving up even more ground. Tesla’s market share fell from 48.7% in June to 42% in July to 38% in August, according to Reuters. That slide has come even as buyers rushing to take advantage of the federal tax credit that ends this month provide a near-term boon for sales at Tesla and other EV makers.

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OpenAI now expects to burn around $115 billion through 2029 — a full $80 billion higher than the company had previously estimated, The Information reports.

Just how much is that? It’s roughly equivalent to:

Fortunately for OpenAI, which is raising money at a $500 billion valuation, its revenue is also growing faster than expected. The ChatGPT maker now expects to make $13 billion in revenue this year and $200 billion in 2030.

An annotated photo of who attended the tech dinner at the White House.

An interactive who's-who of the tech execs at Trump's White House dinner

The White House invited a gaggle of top founders and tech executives for an intimate dinner at the White House.

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Apple’s latest phone is betting on looks, while Google looks inward

Apple gets a hardware upgrade. Google gets a software overhaul.

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