OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, a billionaire tech man, has cozied up additional to President-elect Donald Trump like, properly, nearly each different billionaire tech man.
In truth, he cozied as much as Trump by trolling Democrats who despatched a letter over issues that Altman was…cozying as much as Trump. Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennet despatched a letter to Altman worrying he was making an attempt to “cozy as much as the incoming Trump administration” to “keep away from scrutiny, restrict regulation, and purchase favor.” The letter famous that Altman donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund.
How can we find out about this letter? Nicely, Altman posted it to X, writing, “humorous, they by no means despatched me certainly one of these for contributing to democrats…”
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Altman adopted up by writing: “it was a private contribution as you state; i’m confused concerning the questions on condition that my firm didn’t decide.”
Altman is way from the one tech man to offer cash and/or lavish reward on Trump. As Mashable has famous in earlier protection, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla’s Elon Musk, amongst different tech energy gamers, are all set to attend the inauguration. TikTok’s CEO went out of his method to reward the president-elect forward of the looming ban. Just about everybody within the tech world has lurched rightward into Trump’s ready arms.
So in fact Altman would troll Democrats on-line — that is precisely what people on the appropriate like to do.
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