Kurt Wagner

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  • The Meta AI logo on a smartphone arranged in Germantown, New York, US, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. In April, Meta said it could spend as much as $72 billion on capital expenditures this year, with a focus on AI and the data centers used to train and run the models. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAI

    Meta says OpenAI hire is superintelligence group chief scientist

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • INDIA – 2025/06/19: In this photo illustration, a Meta logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with an Open AI logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)AI

    Meta taps four OpenAI researchers for Superintelligence team

    By Mark Gurman, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 18: CEO of Scale A.I. Alexandr Wang testifies during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation hearing about artificial intelligence on Capitol Hill July 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on barriers that prevent the Department of Defense from adopting and deploying A.I. effectively and the risks from adversarial A.I. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)AI

    Meta in talks for Scale AI investment that could top $10 billion

    By David Carnevali, Shirin Ghaffary, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role in the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)AI

    Musk’s xAI selling $5 billion in debt through Morgan Stanley

    By Jeannine Amodeo, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., departs federal court in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that the photo and video app’s success was hurting the Facebook social network. Photographer: Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Meta saw TikTok as ‘highly urgent’ threat, Zuckerberg says at antitrust trial

    By Josh Sisco, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • Elon Musk at an event. there is a purple background. He wears a professional jacket over a t-shirt and has his hands held against his lips in thought.Tech

    Elon Musk loses legal fight with ex-Twitter employee, memo reveals

    By Kurt Wagner, Malathi Nayak, and others
  • Elon Musk on stageTech

    Elon Musk’s X sued by former Twitter chairman for $20 million in shares

    By Madlin Mekelburg, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • Trump sitting in chairPolitics

    Trump says Mark Zuckerberg called to apologize about photo of assassination attempt and vowed not to endorse a Democrat

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • Mark Zuckerberg is seen in attendance during the UFC 298 eventPolitics

    Mark Zuckerberg says Donald Trump’s reaction to being shot was ‘badass’: ‘That’s why a lot of people like the guy’

    By Emily Chang, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • Chief Technology Officer of X Elon MuskTech

    Elon Musk told advertisers to go f*** themselves last year—today in Cannes he explained why

    By Kurt Wagner, Benoit Berthelot, and others
  • Mark ZuckerbergTech

    Meta’s stock sags under the weight of aggressive AI spending

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • TikTok content creators protest banTech

    TikTok eyes removal of exec in charge of placating U.S. government after House passes divest-or-ban bill

    By Jennifer Jacobs, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • Elon MuskTech

    Developers at Elon Musk’s X test possible NSFW content and communities feature

    By Kurt Wagner and Bloomberg
  • Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform, attends a symposium on fighting antisemitism titled ‘Never Again : Lip Service or Deep Conversation’ in Krakow, Poland on January 22nd, 2024. Musk, who was invited to Poland by the European Jewish Association (EJA) has visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp earlier that day, ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for stiffing them out of $128 million in severance, saying he ‘doesn’t pay his bills’

    By Jef Feeley, Kurt Wagner, and others
  • Kurt Wagner’s “Battle for the Bird.” Simon & SchusterTech

    Bob Iger, Marc Benioff, and the billion-dollar deal that never was: The untold story of Disney’s battle for Twitter

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