After Zuckerberg spent billions on an AI ‘dream team,’ he has to deliver for Meta shareholders

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Mark Zuckerberg feels the heat, he opens his wallet. The 41-year-old Facebook founder and Meta CEO is on a spending spree like never before in an effort to position…

Meta CTO Bosworth says OpenAI countered lucrative job offers to AI startup’s employees

Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview on the sidelines of the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Meta Platforms Inc. debuted its first pair of augmented reality glasses – devices that show a combined view of the digital and…

Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO

When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment in the artificial intelligence startup, he was apparently just getting started. Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever’s startup Safe Superintelligence, and former GitHub CEO Nat…

Steve Jobs once called designer Jony Ive his ‘spiritual partner’ at Apple—OpenAI just bought his tech startup for $6.4 billion

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Jony Ive “the greatest designer in the world” on Wednesday after announcing his company’s plan to buy Ive’s artificial intelligence device startup io, in a deal worth $6.4 billion. The deal signals OpenAI’s intention to build consumer devices, likely meant to get more people using its AI services regularly. Altman…

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Raises $135 Million—WLD Token Jumps 15%

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iPhone designer Jony Ive joining OpenAI to help develop new devices

Jony Ive, the celebrated former Apple industrial design maven behind the look of the iPhone, iPad and other of the technology giant’s products, has joined OpenAI. Ive will help the artificial intelligence company create devices with generative AI capability, according to a video posted on OpenAI’s X account on Wednesday.  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in…