Brent Griffiths
Senior Politics Reporter at Business Insider
Politics reporter at @BusinessInsider | Nebraskan still trying to live the Good Life.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Taylor Berman |Brent Griffiths |Shubhangi Goel |Henry Blodget
Mark Zuckerberg is making a 28-year-old CEO the lynchpin of Meta's investment in the AI race. On Thursday, Meta confirmed that it's buying a 49% stake in Scale AI, giving the company a valuation of over $29 billion. The tech giant is spending about $15 billion for the stake. Scale's founder and CEO, Alexandr Wang, is joining Meta to work on the tech giant's AI efforts. Here are five key things to know about Wang. 1. He's an MIT dropout.
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3 weeks ago |
businessinsider.de | Brent Griffiths
Elon Musk besuchte den US-Präsidenten zum Abschied von seinem Doge-Engagement gut gelaunt, aber mit einem blauen Auge. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images An seinem letzten Tag als Berater des US-Präsidenten Donald Trump erschien Elon Musk im Weißen Haus mit einem blauen Auge.
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4 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Steven Tweedie |Brent Griffiths |Henry Blodget
Elon Musk is no stranger to rolling with the punches — and a recent one apparently landed. Musk was sporting a black eye while standing next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. The bruise was visible beneath his DOGE hat, and the Tesla CEO was eventually asked about what happened. "I was just horsing around with Little X and I said, 'Go ahead, punch me in the face,'" Musk told reporters. "And he did.
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4 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Peter Gelling |Alice Tecotzky |Brent Griffiths |Henry Blodget
It was a praise-filled display of mutual admiration between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon. To commemorate Musk's official last day with DOGE, Trump held a press conference with the Tesla CEO — gifting Musk a large key in the process.
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4 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Steven Tweedie |Brent Griffiths |Alice Tecotzky |Henry Blodget
Love him or hate him, Musk made quite the impression during his tenure at DOGE in DC. As Musk's 130-day stint as a special government employee in Donald Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency" comes to a close, Musk watchers from politics to the business world are weighing in on his departure. Through DOGE, Musk's focus on government spending leaned on similarly extreme cost-cutting methods he had honed at Tesla and during his Twitter takeover.
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