Daily Minute Master Series
February 11, 2025
by Corey Padveen
Marketing News and Updates
ChatGPT Boss Says No Thanks to Elon Musk-Led $97bn Bid
Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI – the maker of ChatGPT – has rebuffed a $97.4bn (£78.4bn) bid to take over the firm from a consortium of investors led by Elon Musk. Musk’s attorney, Marc Toberoff, confirmed he submitted the bid for “all assets” of the tech company to its board on Monday. The offer is the latest twist in a longstanding battle between Musk, the world’s richest man and right hand to US President Donald Trump, and Open AI chief executive Sam Altman over the future of the start-up at the centre of the AI boom.
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Meta Initiates Lay-Offs to Re-Align its Focus Around AI Development
Amid rising competition in AI development, Meta’s re-aligning its workforce to maximize its AI efforts, by cutting around 4,000 jobs, while hiring more AI engineers.
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TikTok Expands In-Stream Shopping Push to Latin America
It may be facing existential challenges in the U.S. and Canada, but TikTok is still pushing ahead with its development in other regions, with the platform set to launch TikTok Shop in Mexico this week.
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WordPress SEO Myths Busted: What You Really Need To Know
Public Trust In AI Surpasses Social Media, Rutgers Study Finds
Google Confirms Business Profile Reviews Outage
Google confirmed an outage in business profile reviews that has resulted in missing reviews for many local business profiles and is working toward fixing the problem.
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