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Feb 14, 2025 · OpenAI’s board has formally rejected Elon Musk’s bid to buy the assets of its nonprofit for $97.4 billion, according to a statement posted to X. The decision, which was expected, comes four days after the entrepreneur originally offered to effectively take control of the OpenAI for-profit arm that runs ChatGPT. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff on Monday that the board intended to reject

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Mar 5, 2025 · Genesys, a private equity-backed customer service software company, delayed what would have been one of the largest initial public offerings of the year, citing a sliding stock market, people familiar with the matter said.. The company’s advisers told people in recent days that it would push back the IPO by at least a few months, rather than try to go public in April or May as it had planned ...

These are the top executives running Google. The organizational chart includes the 16 people who report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai (excluding direct reports at Google parent Alphabet) and reflects more than 50 executive changes under Pichai between May 2021 and November 2022.

Mar 6, 2025 · Things haven't played out that way in the U.S., but Meta has been quietly studying whether to use DeepSeek models in products.Meta might not want to promote DeepSeek to users, though, considering its public stance on Chinese threats and because it develops its own open source AI models, Llama.At a minimum, DeepSeek has upped the ante for Llama 4, the next version of Meta’s flagship model.

Jan 2, 2025 · OpenAI will end its exclusivity agreement with Microsoft and offer its models through other cloud providers: The overarching theme of the last two years has been a gradual distancing between OpenAI and Microsoft, its largest investor and exclusive cloud provider.Microsoft now competes for OpenAI’s customers and strikes deals with the startup’s biggest rivals.

Mar 4, 2025 · Two very different startups, Plaid and CoreWeave, have been preening themselves in recent weeks to raise money. Their diverging fortunes show how timing, luck and fast-changing tech trends can create and destroy value quickly.Plaid is a victim of circumstance. The fintech startup is working on a ...

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Jan 22, 2025 · Microsoft executive vice president Chris Young, who oversaw the company’s deals and investments, resigned on Wednesday, Microsoft said in a filing . As the head of business development, Young ran a team of several hundred employees tasked with overseeing Microsoft’s deals with OpenAI and other firms. His staff managed Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, in which Microsoft invested billions