Thierry Cotillard, chairman of Les Mousquetaires, a French retail group that owns the Intermarché supermarket brand, called the looting “unacceptable” in a LinkedIn post. “We cannot trivialize these scenes,” he said. “We cannot accept that violence becomes a response, that destruction becomes a mode of expression and that those who work honestly become the collateral
Amid geopolitical uncertainty and the AI boom, executive leadership has had to become a much less insular affair. Lumen Technologies CEO Kate Johnson, speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Santa Barbara, Calif. on Tuesday, said that as companies have had to become more nimble in their decision-making, it’s no longer realistic for
Replit, the AI coding platform that has become a favorite of startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Anthropic, the company’s CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad said Thursday while onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI
If companies want more engaged workers, ADP CEO Maria Black says CEOs and senior leaders should start by asking themselves if employees trust them. Speaking with Fortune executive editorial director Diane Brady at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in California this week, Black said trust and engagement gang together. Employees who trust the people around
Academy CEO Bill Kramer is set to make his first trip to Asia later this month. He will collect a leadership award at the Tokyo International Film Festival and also sit down with Toho president and CEO Matsuoka Hiro for a public conversation. The festival’s 39th edition runs Oct. 26–Nov. 4 and has built a
On a mild Friday afternoon, I sat across from a 5.5-inch-tall AI hologram, fidgeting as its creators prompted it to critique my fashion sense. Fortunately, I passed. “Your style is elegant and soft,” said Sumi, a female avatar with black-and-green hair. “That cream halter top looks really lovely on you, and your wavy hair gives
