In Silicon Valley
OpenAI is not for sale.
On Monday, CEO Sam Altman said “no thank you” to a $97.4 billion offer from Elon Musk’s xAI and a consortium of other companies that want to reestablish OpenAI as an “open-source, safety-focused force for good.”
In 2015, Musk and Altman helped found the nonprofit OpenAI Inc., but Musk left the ChatGPT-maker in 2018. In recent months, Altman has announced plans to restructure to a for-profit organization and join other tech giants in investing $500 billion into U.S.-based AI infrastructure… Musk says they’re risking public good for profit.
In other tech news, Meta began its first round of anticipated layoffs Monday, with plans to hand out “performance terminations” to 5% of its workforce—3,700 employees—in the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries to make room for more “business critical” engineers.
Verse to consider whether you have to let someone down easy or you’re the one feeling the sting of rejection… “Let your graciousness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.”
Philippians 4:5 (CSB) (read full passage)