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Disney isn’t building a “super app” tying together all its businesses — at least not yet.Adam Smith, the chief product and technology officer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN, told employees at a town hall last week that the company isn’t planning to turn Disney+ into a hub for buying tickets…
KYIV, Ukraine — At first, it was only a faint whine somewhere in the distance. Then the sound sharpened, swelled, and suddenly the drone was overhead, a high-pitched scream piercing the air as it flew past.The aircraft was Sting, a Ukrainian interceptor drone purpose-built to hunt Russian Shahed-type attack drones.…
The way Jeff Bezos sees it, AI and the data centers that support the novel technology are like knives.”You don’t want to accidentally outlaw the knife because it can be used in a bad way,” the Amazon cofounder said on CNBC on Thursday.”Knives are important tools and yes, every once…
IRPIN, Ukraine — The soldiers arrived in darkness. Pulling up to a field in a van, they began quietly setting up their ground control station on the side of the road. Headlamps cut through the night as they prepared to launch.Before sending up the interceptor drone, they flew a small…
When JT Batson thinks about the FIFA World Cup, he compares it to an IPO.The head of US Soccer, the sport’s governing body, recently recalled a conversation with a veteran CFO who described what it’s like to take a company public: lots of work building toward a single, high-profile moment.Yet,…
The AI job-pocalypse hasn’t come for Bank of America’s summer internship — but good luck trying to land a spot.The bank has hired nearly 4,000 summer interns and full-time campus recruits this year, split roughly evenly between the two, in line with last year’s numbers. Around 240,000 people applied for…
Call me a grouch, but I find it really hard to make any compelling argument for why anyone needs to see a feed of their friends’ activity on Venmo. Loading audio narration… Is it really so interesting seeing that your friend paid someone for pizza?Venmo’s new redesign adds features that…
The US Army is flooding the force with new technology and AI tools. Its former top tech official says rolling them out is the easy part. The hard part is getting soldiers and the institution to adapt, a lesson for any inflexible operation. Loading audio narration… “The hardest part is…
One of the first things I did when I got pregnant with my daughter was put her on every daycare waitlist I could find. Loading audio narration… Daycares in Vancouver are extremely competitive — many have waitlists of a couple of years, and some have waitlists of four years or…
Meta plans to lay off around 10% of its staff next month, and it told staff it’s not ruling out deeper cuts. Loading audio narration… That’s what Janelle Gale, Meta’s chief people officer, told employees in an internal meeting on Thursday, according to three sources on the call.”Will there be…
