Tech Voices: Intel CEO vs. Trump, Open AI profitability, Microsoft

Seeking Alpha’s roundup of statements, announcements and remarks that could impact the technology sector.

-Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) CEO Lip-Bu Tan responded to accusations made by President Trump on Thursday that he was “highly conflicted” and needed to resign from his post.

“There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about my past roles at Walden International and Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS). I want to be absolutely clear: Over 40+ years in the industry, I’ve built relationships around the world and across our diverse ecosystem – and I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards,” Tan said in an employee memo posted on Intel’s website.

“We are engaging with the Administration to address the matters that have been raised and ensure they have the facts. I fully share the President’s commitment to advancing U.S. national and economic security,” Tan continued.

“The Board is fully supportive of the work we are doing to transform our company, innovate for our customers, and execute with discipline – and we are making progress,” Tan added.

-OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC on Friday that his company needs to prioritize growth and investing in its technology “for a long time,” even if that means delaying profitability.

“As long as we’re on this very distinct curve of the model getting better and better, I think the rational thing to do is to just be willing to run the loss for quite a while,” Altman said in an interview with CNBC on Friday.

OpenAI released its latest AI model, GPT-5, on Thursday.

-Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), which holds a major stake in OpenAI, said that it has already launched GPT-5 across all its platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry.

“It’s the most capable model yet from our partners at OpenAI, bringing powerful new advances in reasoning, coding, and chat, all trained on Azure,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a post on X.

“The pace of progress is only accelerating, and I can’t wait to see what developers, enterprises, and consumers will do with this latest breakthrough,” Nadella added.