Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has been quietly backing a bill to launch a federal tax incentive for film, with support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, multiple sources said. Variety. Ellison has spent at least six months in exploratory meetings for the proposed legislation, two sources added, and on Monday night he
The CEO of OpenAI Fidji Simo, in charge of AGI implementation, will leave her full-time position at the company and become a part-time consultant. The move comes after Simo took a month-long medical leave due to a worsening neuroimmune condition. “Three months ago, I had to take medical leave after a serious exacerbation of a
Open source AI is on the rise, according to Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. The company has become something of a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI creators can share and download open models and datasets, which are now used by about half of Fortune 500 companies. Delangue has seen the same
In March, Bluesky’s former CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that role to become its chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Toni Schneider, the founding CEO of Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress and Tumblr. Schneider, who has led the company as interim CEO for the past four months, will now abandon
Fidji Simo, CEO of OpenAI’s AGI Deployment and the company’s second executive, will leave her full-time role following a three-month medical leave, she said in a note in X on Thursday. “Three months ago, I had to take medical leave after a serious exacerbation of a chronic illness I’ve lived with for seven years,” he
Alisa Bowen, who has served as president of Disney+ since 2022, will leave that role to become CEO of Fubo, Disney’s majority-owned Internet TV streaming service. Fubo announced Thursday that its board of directors appointed Bowen as chief executive officer, effective July 10. She succeeds David Gandler, co-founder of FuboTV, who led the company as