You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive
Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and in a curious twist, the new executive hails from an AI startup that the Magic Kingdom previously accused of infringing on its IP. Karandeep Anand is the former CEO of Character.AI, a company that has weathered numerous legal problems since it was founded in 2021. One
No one wants to hear from a colleague that they monopolized a meeting or failed to get their point across — and few colleagues want to be the one to share that with their boss. While thoughtful feedback can be valuable, it’s not always welcome when it’s unsolicited. Nowadays, Coinbase CTO Rob Witoff is getting
Uber believes it’s found a solution to its AI spending problem after it blew through its budget for the technology in just the first few months of the year. In an interview with The Information earlier this year, Uber chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli Naga admitted he went “back to the drawing board” on allotted
Uber is shutting the door on its infamous tokenmaxxing era. In a Wednesday X post, Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said the company is seeing some “very interesting trends on AI costs,” and that this was “another signal that we’re coming to the end of the so-called ‘tokenmaxxing’ era.” Tokenmaxxing is an enterprise AI trend
