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Elon Musk asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to join xAI bid to buy OpenAI, filing shows
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk Manuel Orbegozo | Chip Somodevilla | Reuters Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI in early 2025, court filings on Thursday revealed. The filing is part of a legal case […]
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Bill Gates meets Willy Wonka: How Epic’s 82-year-old billionaire CEO, Judy Faulkner, built her software factory
Judy Faulkner, founder and chief executive officer of Epic Systems Corp., during the Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York, Dec. 5, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Do not go public. Do not acquire or be acquired. Software must work. These are the first three of the 10 commandments splashed across bathrooms and […]
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Figma CEO’s path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, signs the guestbook on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on July 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg may be the most famous college-dropout-turned-tech-billionaire. Dylan Field is the latest, after his design startup Figma soared in its stock […]
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Meta’s AI spending spree is Wall Street’s focus in second-quarter earnings
Over the years, Meta has built a reputation for using rivals’ innovations to bolster its technology. But its decision to copy a Chinese artificial intelligence lab in 2025 in an effort to compete with OpenAI backfired, forcing the company to overhaul its AI strategy. In a rush to mimic the techniques developed by Chinese startup […]
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Meta names OpenAI’s Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI Superintelligence Lab
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Shengjia Zhao, the co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Zuckerberg […]
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Wall Street is upbeat on tech megacaps, but big questions loom on AI spending, China, Trump tariffs
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc.; from left, Lauren Sanchez; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc.; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc.; and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Julia Demaree Nikhinson | Bloomberg | […]
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Scale AI cuts 14% of workforce after Meta investment, hiring of founder Wang
Facade with logo at headquarters of Scale AI, San Francisco, California, June 2, 2025. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Weeks after Meta poured $14.3 billion into Scale AI and hired founder Alexandr Wang, the artificial intelligence startup is cutting 200 full-time employees, or 14% of its staff. Scale AI’s interim […]
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Meta CEO Zuckerberg says first AI data supercluster will come online in 2026
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, and that Meta plans to bring its first […]
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How Iconiq, the wealth firm backed by Mark Zuckerberg, brings ultra-rich philanthropists together
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Square CEO Jack Dorsey. Manuel Orbegozo | Handout | Reuters A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Even as tax changes may reduce giving by […]
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Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Meta poached Daniel Gross
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 5, 2023. Jack Guez | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year. Sutskever’s announcement on Thursday comes after Meta […]
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