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It’s official: Josh D’Amaro is Disney’s new top dog — or, in this case, mouse.D’Amaro, who oversees Disney’s parks as its experiences chairman, was just chosen to succeed Bob Iger as CEO. Iger is set to step down on March 18, paving the way for D’Amaro to take over.D’Amaro is…
What do Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter, Addison Rae, and Blackpink’s Rosé have in common?They’re all nominated for Grammy Awards this year, and they’ve all worked closely with the same vocal coach: Eric Vetro.In an industry that runs on pomp and publicity, Vetro is the man behind the curtain…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei doesn’t mince words.He’s rankled some rival tech CEOs by boldly predicting that AI could wipe out half of entry-level, white-collar jobs and that the upheaval could happen between now and the next five years.”I think at the end of the day, I warn about these things…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are engaged in a courtroom clash of the titans over the origins of OpenAI, now one of the most important artificial intelligence companies in the world. In San Francisco federal court, they are suing each other in a dizzying series of claims and counterclaims.In Altman’s…
When a TikTok video about her career racked up millions of views last year, 66-year-old retired airline pilot and military veteran Captain Theresa Claiborne suddenly became visible to a generation that had largely never heard of her.Claiborne has been an aviation trailblazer for decades. The Sacramento-raised aviator, who came from…
The holidays came early for five BlackRock employees, who joined an elite circle of some of the firm’s most accomplished technologists on Tuesday.They became members of BlackRock’s Tech Fellows program, a group of 24 senior technologists playing a crucial role in the $13.5 trillion firm’s vision and operations.This year’s members…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott ended their 25-year marriage in 2019 — and she’s become a major philanthropic force in the years since.On December 9, Scott announced that she’d donated close to $7.2 billion in the past year, bringing her total giving to more than $26 billion. Scott…
Berkshire Hathaway is reshuffling its top ranks ahead of the departure of its legendary CEO, Warren Buffett, in January.The company announced on Monday that Todd Combs, one of Buffett’s key deputies and CEO of Berkshire-owned Geico, is departing the company to take on a role at JPMorgan.Alongside Combs’ departure, Berkshire…
David Ellison is officially the CEO of Paramount Skydance. After a successful Paramount merger, next on his wish list is Warner Bros. Discovery — and he’s launched a hostile takeover bid in an effort to scoop it out from Netflix’s hands.The 42-year-old founded Skydance back in 2006 with some help…
