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Paramount Skydance just made a key hire to help advance its AI push. Loading audio narration… Barak Turovsky, who oversaw Google’s AI language product for seven years, is joining David Ellison’s company as the head of consumer AI, product chief Dane Glasgow told tech staffers on Monday afternoon.Turovsky most recently…
Surging jet fuel prices could mean some airlines going out of business, according to the chief financial officer of Ryanair, Europe’s biggest airline. Loading audio narration… “I think we will see some of the weaker carriers who were already struggling before the war possibly go to the wall in the…
First came the self-driving dream. Then came the backlash. Loading audio narration… For years, the EV maker has sold its cars with the promise that they would one day drive themselves. Last month, however, CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell when he told investors that some older Tesla vehicles will…
An OpenAI executive told a federal jury Wednesday how Elon Musk once called him a “jackass” during a heated clash over AI safety. Loading audio narration… Joshua Achiam, OpenAI’s chief futurist, recalled the “pretty tense exchange” during testimony in the California civil trial between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.”He…
Roblox just made a big hire it hopes can unlock its next stage of growth. Loading audio narration… The online entertainment and gaming platform exclusively told CMO Insider it had appointed John Ciancutti as its first-ever chief growth officer.Ciancutti is responsible for Roblox’s discovery team, which works on its TikTok-like…
Netflix already conquered your living room — and it wants to make sure you’re streaming on your phone, too. Loading audio narration… On Thursday, the company rolled out a slew of mobile app updates to help you find something to watch faster and encourage streaming throughout more parts of the…
Disney is shuffling its streaming commerce and data teams as a top executive exits. Loading audio narration… Ajay Arora, Disney’s SVP of product management and engineering, is leaving the company on April 30, product and tech chief Adam Smith told employees late last week in a memo obtained by Business…
David Fincher’s classic film, “Fight Club,” is regarded as one of the best and most daring studio movies of the late 1990s. But when 20th Century Fox released it in 1999, it didn’t have many fans — least of all the studio’s then-owner, Rupert Murdoch. Loading audio narration… Bill Mechanic,…
As several Wall Street banks reported first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, executives had to answer for their exposure to the private credit market, which has been under a microscope recently. Loading audio narration… CFO Jeremy Barnum estimated the bank’s exposure to private credit funds was $50 billion.”We’re broadly comfortable with it,”…
Dave McCann oversees thousands of humans, and also an AI agent he named after himself: Digital Dave. Loading audio narration… One of the most valuable things it does is conduct research, including on the company’s customers. That’s a big help for McCann, who, as a global managing partner for transformation…
