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David Ellison’s right-hand man is leaving Paramount Skydance. Loading audio narration… Jeff Shell has stepped down from Paramount, where he’d been president since August 2025, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. As president, Shell helped oversee the company’s day-to-day operations.The company said in a statement that it was…
Micro dramas are entering their Hollywood phase as new players aim to give the format the star treatment.The latest example is Tommy Harper, a prolific film producer whose credits include “Star Wars” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”Harper is going small for his next act. He’s launching VeYou, an app for the…
A top NATO commander has said Ukraine’s battlefield adaptation is impressive and that the alliance needs something like an “HOV lane” to fast-track new war tech. Loading audio narration… In its four years of fending off Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has demonstrated an “adaptation DNA,” Adm. Pierre Vandier, NATO’s Supreme…
America’s biggest shipbuilder wants to know whether artificial intelligence and robots can do some of the most labor-intensive parts of the shipbuilding process. Loading audio narration… A new partnership between Huntington Ingalls Industries and GrayMatter Robotics, announced Monday, aims to work AI and physical robotic systems into shipbuilding operations. Autonomous…
Are you using AI to think — or letting it think for you? Loading audio narration… Vivienne Ming, chief scientist at the Possibility Institute, a metascience research group, and founder of Socos Labs, an AI and education firm, says the tech is splitting people into two groups: a small minority…
Many California counties are still seeing more people move out than move in, unlike in Maine, new data showed. Loading audio narration… The Census Bureau’s population change estimates show how the country’s 3,143 counties and county equivalents grew or shrank between July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025.Business Insider looked…
In Jeffrey Epstein’s last will and testament, he named two of his longtime associates — personal attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn — as co-executors of his $630 million estate.He didn’t give them salaries for the job.Since Epstein’s death in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, Indyke and…
Brace yourself for raunchy mini dramas in your TikTok feed.TikTok has begun a limited test of a new mini-drama feed in its app, dubbed “TikTok Short Drama,” a company spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.The feature looks a lot like TikTok’s separate mini-drama app, PineDrama, but appears in the main app…
Steve Hanke says Iran is pulling from Muhammad Ali’s playbook — and could deal a “knockout blow” to the US.”With its control of the Strait of Hormuz, that’s what Iran is capable of doing, and probably will do,” the professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins told Business Insider by…
US Air Force A-10 Warthogs are now chasing down Iranian fast-attack boats in the Strait of Hormuz, the top US general said Thursday. Loading audio narration… At a Thursday press briefing, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed operational updates as the conflict…
