Tech executives line up to get on the president-elect’s good side just a month before he takes the oath of office for a second time.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon plan to donate $1 million each to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, according to reports from
Altman’s donation is reportedly coming directly from him, not OpenAi, unlike donations coming from Amazon and Meta that were announced this week.
Mr. Altman and OpenAI have recently hired key executives who previously worked for the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations.
Wedbush Securities initiated coverage on Thursday of Oklo — the nuclear power startup backed by OpenAI head Sam Altman — with an outperform rating. The new rating comes a day after the company announced an agreement to provide as much as 12 gigawatts of energy to Switch,
The list of U.S. tech leaders showing support for President-elect Donald Trump continues to grow, with Sam Altman planning to donate $1 million to his inaugural fund.
Trump has been a vocal critic of tech companies, and he signaled earlier this month that he won't shy away from antitrust enforcement. The incoming president nominated Gail Slater, who advised Trump on tech policy during his first term, to head the Department of Justice's antitrust arm.
Donald Trump's second inauguration offers wealthy donors and big companies one final chance to make nice before Trump returns to power.
Sam Altman is the chairman of a company that promises a brighter ... Google joined a $250 million funding round for nuclear startup TAE Technologies in 2022, and Amazon anchored a $500 million financing round for nuclear startup X-energy in October.
Tech tycoons are lining up to donate big sums of cash to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund ahead of his next stint in the White House. Jeff Bezos’ Amazon has pitched in a million bucks. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has tossed in another million. And OpenAI CEO Sam Altman scrounged up a million of his own.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning on donating $1 million to president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund, Fox News reported on Friday.
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