Google donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund. Other major tech companies and executives like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta both announced $1 million donations to the inaugural fund late last year.

The OpenAI CEO said he is willing to work with the incoming administration to ensure the continued advancement of AI.

Tech companies have been racing o to set up data centers essential for powering generative artificial intelligence applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which require

Sam Altman in an interview said the most helpful thing Donald Trump can do for AI in his next administration would be to develop new infrastructure.

Some donors didn’t contribute to Biden’s fund, but the outgoing president received big donations from other companies.

Musk dropped the lawsuit but filed another one against Altman and OpenAI, this time elevating his accusations to claim OpenAI worked with Microsoft, an investor, to create a monopoly. The billionaire also alleged the company violated its founding claim as a nonprofit by pursuing profit. OpenAI has denied the allegations.

AlexNet, created by Alex Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, used a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)—a powerful new type of computer program—to recognize images far more accurately than ever, kick-starting major progress in AI.

Microsoft said on Thursday that it is making a $1 million donation to the inauguration fund of President-elect Donald Trump. TakeAway Points: Microsoft has contributed $500,000 for President-elect Donald Trump’s first term and is now contributing $1 million to his inauguration fund.

What’s at stake: The hurry before the president-elect’s inauguration on January 20 underscores the EU’s insecurity over his potential actions when he returns to the White House, following his recent threats. These include refusing to rule out taking Greenland by force and suggesting Canada and the Panama Canal should become part of the US.

Trump, who returns to the White House after January 20's inauguration, has raked in substantially more money from tech companies than Biden did for his 2021 inaugu

Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are each donating $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining the roster of technology companies shelling out to back the incoming US president’s festivities later this month.