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.

Most notably, there’s co-founder Elon Musk, who now runs rival startup xAI, and is in the midst of a heated legal battle with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to make a $1 million personal donation to President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with the incoming administration. A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed the move on Friday.

This week highlights OpenAI unveiling its o3 models, Amazon’s new password sharing policies, rumors of the iPhone SE 4 being renamed to iPhone 16e, WhatsApp’s seasonal features, and Google’s announcement of a 10% job cut in managerial positions.

Mr. Altman and OpenAI have recently hired key executives who previously worked for the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations.

Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

His inaugural fund has received million-dollar donations from Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, Jeff Bezos' Amazon, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Elon Musk of X has even referred to himself as Trump's "first buddy." "I want to get ideas from them. Look, we want them to ...

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OpenAI has recently explored building its own humanoid robot, according to The Information. The report cites “two people with direct knowledge” of those