18 h. ago Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching Spree: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'

“What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.

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41 h. ago 'He Really Gets It:' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Praises Trump for Understanding AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman praised President Donald Trump, saying he understands the importance of AI to both the economy and the geopolitical situation, adding that he couldn't say the same for all presidents. "He really gets it," Altman said. The post ‘He Really Gets It:’ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Praises Trump for Understanding AI appeared first on Breitbart.

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42 h. ago Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team

After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.

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3 d. ago Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks.

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7 d. ago Takeaways From Hard Fork’s Interview With OpenAI’s Sam Altman

Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.

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9 d. ago OpenAI pulls promotional materials around Jony Ive deal due to court order

OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube page.

Events

1 week ago Sam Altman: Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Is Trying to Lure Away OpenAI Brains with Bonuses of *$100 Million*

According to OpenAI boss Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is offered senior OpenAI employees signing bonuses of up to $100 million along with even larger annual compensation packages, to lure away top AI talent from the ChatGPT developer. The post Sam Altman: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Is Trying to Lure Away OpenAI Brains with Bonuses of *$100 Million* appeared first on Breitbart.

Economics

2 w. ago Meta offered $100 mn bonuses to poach OpenAI employees: CEO Altman

Meta offered $100 million bonuses to OpenAI employees in an unsuccessful bid to poach the ChatGPT maker's talent and strengthen its own generative AI teams, the startup's CEO, Sam Altman, has said.

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2 w. ago Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI […]

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3 w. ago Barry Diller Invented Prestige TV. Then He Conquered the Internet

The mogul behind Fox, Expedia, and Tinder opens up about Steve Jobs—and his close friend Sam Altman.

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