A well-placed venture capitalist helping craft Trump’s tech policy told NYNext that for the first time in years, “I don’t know anyone going to Davos.”
Venture capitalist and early Facebook investor Jim Breyer said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been energized by his company’s recent push into AI.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says the Trump administration should make cybersecurity defenses mission critical.
U.S. President Trump is to speak to an international audience for the first time after returning into the White House with a speech and Q&A by video conference to the World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos on Thursday.
In a notable divergence from tradition, several billionaire business leaders, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi, have opted to attend Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington, D.C., on January 20 instead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Stay diversified, please: Billionaire investor and Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio was full of investing wisdom when he showed up to an Opening Bid taping late in the evening. Dalio was game on, voicing concerns on US debt levels and stock valuations. I point-blank asked Dalio how someone could go about becoming a better investor.
US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, noted the favourable seating for the tech CEOs at the inaugural – in front of Trump‘s Cabinet nominees. Musk, who spent upwards of $250m on Trump‘s re-election bid,
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” he wrote on Threads today.
The order bars the government from "any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen" and orders an investigation into the Biden administration's actions.
Zuckerberg touched on his recent affinity for wearing gold chains during an April 2024 video call with journalist Eva Chen, posted to Instagram. During the conversation, Chen asked Zuckerberg to tell her about his gold chain necklace, saying, "I know there's a story behind it."
Nishant Shah warns that Meta's doing away with content moderation represents a dangerous lack of oversight. "A mix of human and algorithmic detection, flagging, scrutiny, resolution, and oversight has developed as a way of interpreting limits and diminishing the scope of harmful speech."