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Earlier this month a number of AI companies, including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, announced partnerships with the US government wherein federal workers would get access to their respective chatbots for ludicrously small fees. Notably absent was xAI’s Grok, which missed out on the initiative after it began praising Hitler last month. That no longer seems to be a problem for the government.
Wired reports that the White House earlier this week ordered federal workers to roll out Grok “ASAP.” It’s unclear what caused the about-face. Perhaps xAI and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is back in President Trump’s good graces, after fallouts earlier this summer.
AI companies are hoping that by offering government agencies access to their services for incredibly low prices — $1 per year for ChatGPT and Claude, and $0.47 for Gemini — they’ll be able to hook workers into relying on their products and will eventually be able to eke out more lucrative contracts.
Wired reports that the White House earlier this week ordered federal workers to roll out Grok “ASAP.” It’s unclear what caused the about-face. Perhaps xAI and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is back in President Trump’s good graces, after fallouts earlier this summer.
AI companies are hoping that by offering government agencies access to their services for incredibly low prices — $1 per year for ChatGPT and Claude, and $0.47 for Gemini — they’ll be able to hook workers into relying on their products and will eventually be able to eke out more lucrative contracts.
This week, Wired reported that things weren’t exactly humming along in Mark Zuckerberg’s AI all-star-packed Meta Superintelligence Labs, with some recent hires leaving the company after just weeks.
Today more details are emerging from the Financial Times, which reports that the team of newly minted multimillionaire AI pirates is struggling to adapt to life inside a legacy Big Tech company.
The new recruits, some of whom were reportedly offered nine-figure signing bonuses, appear to be flexing their newfound power.
One of the highest-profile recruits, ChatGPT cocreator Shengjia Zhao, reportedly threatened to return to OpenAI just days after joining Meta and had even started filling out paperwork at his old employer before Meta appeased him with the new title of “chief AI scientist.”
Avi Verma, one of the recent hires who left, didn’t show for his first full day of work after going through Meta onboarding, according to the report.
Meta told the FT that “some attrition is normal for any organization of this size. Most of these employees had been with the company for years, and we wish them the best.”
Today more details are emerging from the Financial Times, which reports that the team of newly minted multimillionaire AI pirates is struggling to adapt to life inside a legacy Big Tech company.
The new recruits, some of whom were reportedly offered nine-figure signing bonuses, appear to be flexing their newfound power.
One of the highest-profile recruits, ChatGPT cocreator Shengjia Zhao, reportedly threatened to return to OpenAI just days after joining Meta and had even started filling out paperwork at his old employer before Meta appeased him with the new title of “chief AI scientist.”
Avi Verma, one of the recent hires who left, didn’t show for his first full day of work after going through Meta onboarding, according to the report.
Meta told the FT that “some attrition is normal for any organization of this size. Most of these employees had been with the company for years, and we wish them the best.”
70% of Americans would prefer autonomous cars to use both cameras and lidar.
Dell is down 6% premarket after issuing soft guidance for the third quarter.
The tech hardware company’s second-quarter earnings and revenue figures released after the bell on Thursday, however, did manage to best expectations:
Adjusted earnings per share of $2.32, higher than the $2.29 FactSet consensus estimate.
Revenue of $29.78 billion, compared with analyst estimates of $29.02 billion.
While the company raised its fiscal 2026 full-year revenue guidance to $107 billion at the midpoint and to $9.55 for non-GAAP diluted EPS — higher than analysts had expected — its third-quarter guidance was disappointing. The company anticipates non-GAAP diluted EPS of $2.45 in Q3, lower than the $2.55 consensus estimate on FactSet.
The company’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, which includes AI servers, had revenue of $16.8 billion last quarter, more than the $15.6 billion analysts predicted. The company says it expects to sell $20 billion worth of AI servers this year, double what it did last year.
Profitability in that business unit was on the weaker side, with margins coming in lower than anticipated. Dell COO Jeff Clarke attributed this to “aggressive” and “competitive” deals that caused some one-off expenses.
The e-commerce giant plans to spend $53 billion on AI infrastructure over the next three years.

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