Meta Platforms, Inc.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2026/01/dina-powell-mccormick-joins-meta-as-president-and-vice-chairman/">has appointed </a>former U.S. President Donald Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to the position of president and vice chairman of the board of directors. Meta has created this position specifically for Powell McCormick, where she will focus on working with governments and investors on artificial intelligence, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/meta-taps-former-trump-advisor-for-new-role-driving-ai-buildout?sref=Y0jVLcFo">explains </a>.

Meta has hired an ex-Trump adviser to coordinate AI projects

Amazon.com, Inc.

Tesla, Inc.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett is now out of the top 10 as well

Billionaire Bezos is back in the top 3 richest businessmen in the world. Who has he displaced?

Microsoft Corporation

So, it's happened. After a year of discussions, negotiations and even <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/cukerberg-protiv-al-tmana-kak-delo-openai-raskololo-kremnievuu-dolinu">lawsuits</a>, the leading artificial intelligence developer OpenAI has finally restructured and turned into a commercial company. This will allow its CEO Sam Altman to attract new investments and even go public. It may become the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-lays-groundwork-juggernaut-ipo-up-1-trillion-valuation-2025-10-29/">largest</a> IPO in modern history.

"Just a normal company" at $1 trillion: How OpenAI is making its way to the stock exchange

Oracle Corporation

Oracle founder became $70 billion richer "on paper" in one day

Oracle's Ellison has almost caught up with Musk in the billionaire race. Will the leader change?

Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk earlier this year offered Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a stake in a $97.4 billion buyout of OpenAI, court filings show, Seeking Alpha <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/4488208-elon-musk-openai-bid-meta-mark-zuckerberg">writes.</a>

Musk discussed $97 billion takeover of OpenAI with Zuckerberg - court documents

Alphabet Inc.

The agreement with Google will allow Meta to quickly provide its "superintelligence" team with computing power

Meta and Google have struck a major AI deal for the first time

SHUANGLIN

CHANGSHENG BEARINGS

In early August, Chinese startup Unitree unveiled its new robot - A2 Stellar Hunter. The "robot dog" <a href="https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics/status/1952672597558309136">demonstrates</a> incredible tricks, from dancing on one leg to confidently traversing difficult terrain off-road. Almost simultaneously, Google's Deepmind lab announced the <a href="https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1952732150928724043">development of</a> Genie 3, its new AI capable of generating not just videos, but entire three-dimensional worlds that can be freely explored. Why, out of all the huge stream of news, do these two seem the most interesting to me? They demonstrate two vectors of technology development that, when combined, are capable of turning the world upside down.

Zuckerberg's mistake: metaverses are more necessary for robots than for humans

Apple Inc.

Trump's new duties caused a collapse&nbsp;on the first day of August in markets that were in euphoria after reports&nbsp;from the largest US tech companies.&nbsp;Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta beat analysts' expectations on earnings and revenue, despite some weak segments. At the same time, the luxury sector is still in crisis: Hermès shares sagged despite sales growth, while Kering is facing a 25% drop in Gucci revenue and a growing debt load. The Fed kept rates unchanged and Donald Trump criticized Jerome Powell again. The main events from July 28 to August 1 - in our review.&nbsp;

Highlights of the week: bigtech reports, Trump's duties and Figma's debut


GitLab Inc.

Atlassian Corporation

The status quo in the software development services market has been disrupted by neural networks

Capital One names two lagging IT stocks and no longer advises buying them

NVIDIA Corporation

The businessman's fortune has exceeded $250 billion

Oracle founder Ellison ranked second on the billionaires list, surpassing Zuckerberg

The company could become the first to launch a data center with power consumption of more than 1 gigawatt

Meta will build a data center the size of Manhattan for superintelligence. How much does it cost?

Meta in June <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/scale-ai-confirms-significant-investment-from-meta-says-ceo-alexandr-wang-is-leaving/">paid</a> $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, a startup that partitions data for machine learning. That's how it was able to hire its co-founder and CEO Alexander Wang. He<a href="https://oninvest.com/article/cukerberg-sobral-gruppu-razrabotcikov-superintellekta-akcii-meta-obnovili-maksimum">headed</a> Meta's new division - Superintelligence Labs, the Superintelligence Lab - and should provide his new employer with leadership in the artificial intelligence race. Roman Mighty tells us who Alexander Wang is.