Tech giants pay talent millions of dollars

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered $100 million signing bonuses to top OpenAI employees. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The artificial intelligence arms race is heating up, and as tech giants scramble to come out on top, they’re dangling millions of dollars in front of a small talent pool of specialists in what’s…

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Computing power demand is biggest challenge

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said Wednesday that even as the company hits revenue milestones, it faces ongoing pressures due to the demand for computing power required for artificial intelligence. “It is voracious right now for GPUs and for compute,” she told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday, adding that insufficient compute, or computing power, to meet…

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Using ETFs to help avoid hefty tax bills

A major exchange-traded fund provider is getting ready to launch a fund designed to ease investors’ tax burdens from a record-setting stock market. Even though ETFs are considered more tax efficient than mutual funds, Astoria Portfolio Advisors plans to launch the Astoria U.S. Enhanced Core Equity ETF (LCOR) in October. The fund uses a tax-mitigation…

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