Tesla, xAI, and Meta—strengthening its backend scaling team that powers its AI infrastructure. The new recruits will support major initiatives like Stargate, OpenAI's high-performance compute project.

OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from rival tech companies, including former Tesla executive David Lau, to join its scaling team, WIRED reported. According to an internal Slack message sent by OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on Tuesday,

Top tech leaders like Elon Musk and Sam Altman are feeling unwelcome in the current two-party system. Meanwhile, Democrats—still reeling from President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on the back of his economic populism—are grappling with their own message. The turmoil points to a clash in competing visions over how to run the economy.

Tesla bull Dan Ives on Tuesday proposed a merger even more colorful than his clothes, when he sketched out a scenario whereby the carmaker could buy xAI. Why it matters: This could create a viable rival to OpenAI and Big Tech incumbents like Meta and Microsoft,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that OpenAI is developing a new approach to self-driving technology that is "way better" than Tesla's.

Bob Iger, the current Disney CEO, arrives at Sun Valley Lodge. Sun Valley is reportedly the location where the merger between ABC and Disney went down back in 1995. Then-CEO Michael Eisner—who is in attendance this year, too—met up with Capital Cities Chairman Thomas S. Murphy, according to the Los Angeles Times, and the rest was history.