During a company-wide All-Hands meeting on Thursday, some top officials of Mata were asked about “$ 100 million signing bonus” that Openai CEO Sam Altman Claimed They were offering to hunt their employees.

“Sam is just getting dishonest here,” Andrew BosworthMeta’s CTO said in the meeting when asked about Altman’s comments. “He is suggesting that we are doing this for every person … Look, you guys, the market is hot. It’s not so hot.”

The “$ 100 million bonus” headline has become a meme on social media as Altman called the number on his brother’s podcast. “What Sam ignored to mention that he is combating all these proposals, very few, creating a small market for a very small number of people who are for senior, senior leadership roles” New Superintendent AI team is building metaBosworth told the meta employees today. “This is not normal that is happening in AI space. And of course, he is not mentioning what the real terms of the proposal are. It is not. [a] Sign-on bonus. These are all different things. ,

Bosworth recently referred to a handful of stories about a handful of Openai researchers who are joining the meta and said “there are some other in the pipeline that I can’t announce or share right now.”

He said, “Sam is known for exaggeration, and in this case, I know why he is doing this, because we are succeeding in getting talent from Openai,” he said. “He is not very happy about this.”

At Thursday’s meeting, the company’s engineering “Bootcamp” was present many employees, a multiplication onboarding program that gives new rent to various teams. Bosworth asked the audience to laugh and clap, “Here for all new bootkins, you were not screwed.” “You took a great decision. Comp is correct where it should be.”

Bosworth was not the only meta execution to mention Openai during the internal meeting. CPO Chris cox Also admitted that, while Meta AI has a billion monthly users, the engagement is “almost not as deep as people are using chat.” The Standalone Meta AI app has only 450,000 daily users, he told the employees, and “many of them” are using it to manage their ray-ban meta glass.

“We are not going right after chat and try and do a better job with helping to write our emails at work,” Cox said. “We need to distinguish here by not focusing on the productivity, which you see anthropic and openi and Google. We are going to focus on entertainment, on the relationship with friends, how people live their lives, on all the things that we do on all the things that we do uniquely, which is a large part of the moving strategy.”

Meta refused to comment on the internal meeting.

When i talked together Jason Ragolo On Thursday, I wanted to understand why he was sued the most influential company in Tech.

Rugolo’s AI device startup, iyo, recently Won a temporary relative order That uses for the “IO” brand opens bars Sam Altman New hardware division with Johnny EveIn response, Altman Took your X account To suggest that Roggolo filed his trademark case as Openai refused to invest or buy IYO, which is ready to release its first AI-operated, in-age headphone at the end of this year.

Roggolo accepted (and confirm the documents presented to the court) that he picked Altman on investing several times. He also discussed the acquisition with members of the IO team this year. Nevertheless, he says that his lawsuit is not a part of religion, but intends to end any confusion between him. IYO a headphone And IO of Altman.

The trademark cases are more than a dozen, but it is broken for a good reason. What is the construction of Altman and IVE (first device) is intensive interest Apparently a “in-ear” product or “wearetable” will not be “), And the case is a rursch test that you feel about Altman, which is undoubtedly polarized.

“I had a big change in opinion on the boy,” Roggolo tells me about Altman. “When I was meeting him, I was a great entrepreneur of Sam Altman and being a truly interesting person. It immediately broke after his public announcement. [of io],

,Am i getting spoiled here?“Roggolo remembered thinking.” When I talked to him on the phone and he threatened a Sopranos to sue me, I just, ‘Okay, this man is a bad friend. “Now, they say that Altman” is trying to manipulate arguments in the public sector “and” I don’t look like a wealth. ,

“This is an baseless trademark dispute and not a case about theft ideas or technology,” Openi spokesperson Kayla Wood Says in a statement shared with me. “Iyo demonstrated a product in May 2025, which did not work properly or did not meet our standards that we would receive IYO. We passed. Jason Ragolo also knew well about the IO name and never worried before our announcement.”

Recently thanks to his producer, Petron, and millions of dollars raised from a billionaire, which he refused by name, Roggolo says IO has enough runway to finalize it by the end of 2026. When I ask whether the device was teased in itself. Viral ted talk Last year is actually shipping later this year, he says he is going to fly to China “originally living in the factory.”

While he is ready to undergo a legal discovery process and take his case for a test, he hopes that openie “will” keep your guns away “and” fulfill the product like growing up on the product. ”

“I will meet them in the market,” he tells me. “We will try to launch both the goods that are really good and will see if we can serve our customers. They will just compete fairly and stop using the name. They have some best designers in the world, apparently. Think about a new name.

So far, known for the runway Laying Generic AI in HollywoodNow, a $ 3 billion startup is setting its places on the gaming industry.

This week, I was provided access to a new interactive gaming experience, which is a plan to provide all to everyone, according to the CEO, according to the next week. Crystobal WalenguelaThe consumer-supporting product is currently quite nakebon, with a chat interface that only supports the text and image generation, but Walenzuela says that video games generated later this year are coming. He says that the runway is also talking about using his technology with gaming companies and reaching his dataset for training.

Based on its recent conversation, Walenzuela believes that the gaming industry is in the same position as Hollywood when it was first introduced to generative AI. There was considerable resistance, but over time, AI is gradually adopted in more areas of the production process. Walenzuela says that Amazon’s recent show, David’s houseThe runway was built in part with the technology, and that his company is working with “much more every major studios” and “Most of Fortune 100 companies”.

“If we can help a studio to make a film 40 percent faster, we are probably able to help the developers of the Games faster,” they say. “They are awake, and they are moving fast as much as I would say that the studios were moving forward two years ago.”

Naturally, I could not let Wallenzuela get away from our zoom call without asking about it Recent acquisition talks With Zuckerberg: “I think we have more interesting intellectual challenges independent, and are free for now.”

Nobody knows what AGI really means. This is very clear from this excellent Dive from deep Information In the Microsoft deal with Openai. There has been great reporting on the conversation between the two companies, but this piece is the most wide and wide that I have seen so far. It suggests that Microsoft will no longer get special access to the IP of Openai if it receives “adequate Agi”, which is contracted when Openai’s board determines that AI has the ability to generate “the ability to generate” maximum benefits are entitled to their investors. Surprisingly, Openai does not really need to generate these profits.

Two under -radar deals: Although he has not made many headlines, openi announced an interesting partnership and a small acquisition this week. The first one is Deal with applied intuition “Advance for the next generation, AI-managed experience in vehicles.” The second is the acquisition of the small team Crossing MindsAn AI startup that helped e-commerce companies offer more individual product recommendations. “Personally, joining Openai’s research team to focus on agents and information recovery is a unique honor” Founder of Crossing Minds Alexandre eobic Write“These are the right problems that I have always been emotional: how the system learns, causes, and real time gain knowledge on scale.”

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