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YouTube hires longtime Disney exec to head up live sports
As YouTube prepares to air an exclusive NFL opening week game for free on September 5th, it’s hiring former Disney exec Justin Connolly. He’d most recently been running the streaming services and linear media networks, and will take over as YouTube’s new global head of media and sports, as first reported by Bloomberg, and confirmed by YouTube spokesperson Andrea Faville.…
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Q&A: Ernst & Young exec details the good, bad and future of genAI deployments
Betting that generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is top of mind for every IT manager and corporate executive would be a smart move. An equally smart take would be to realize that most organizations still remain reticent to fully embrace the technology and its automation capabilities. Given the AI hallucinations, output errors, organizational data fragmentation and a lack of skilled IT…
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Apple exec ‘outright lied’ during Epic trial
In her ruling banning Apple from charging a commission on purchases made outside the App Store, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says that an Apple executive “outright lied under oath.” According to Gonzalez Rogers, Alex Roman, vice president of finance at Apple, gave testimony that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies.” The judge writes that Roman lied when testifying that…
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Google breakup plans would ‘hurt America’s consumers, economy, and technological leadership’, senior exec claims
Google has struck back against US regulators, claiming that plans to dismantle the company would “hurt the economy”. Last year, a court case brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) found Google had a monopoly in search. A trial that began this week seeks to decide the correct remedies, which could include breaking up aspects of Google, selling Chrome…
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the newest Big Tech-to-space exec
Eric Schmidt, who was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, is now the CEO of rocket startup Relativity Space, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. Schmidt will be replacing Relativity Space co-founder Tim Ellis in the CEO role. Schmidt isn’t alone in the segment – Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are known for their work with SpaceX and…
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Microsoft exec hints at hiring freeze as AI productivity gains soar
Microsoft may be planning a hiring freeze on the back of its AI productivity gains, according to comments made by Microsoft CCO Judson Althoff at the company’s AI Tour London event. Speaking during the keynote address, Althoff said Microsoft is optimistic about the cost savings delivered by AI tools and that he’s committed to a headcount freeze over the coming…
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AWS exec highlights key skills for success in the evolving AI-driven job market – Computerworld
“That’s what we’re seeing — that recognition that these new technologies that are coming out…and they’re kind of the future, and people have to figure out what this technology can do for them and their job, no matter what their job is. “We participated in a study…around wages associated with AI skills, and what we found was just an incredible…
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“We are really moving into a world now of managing humans and agents together”: Marc Benioff thinks today’s CEOs will be the last to have a fully human workforce – and he’s not the only big tech exec predicting the rise of a new AI workforce
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff thinks current chief executives will be among the last to oversee an all-human workforce as the use of AI agents becomes more widespread. Benioff’s prediction came during a conversation with Axios at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January, where he referred to AI agents as “digital labor” capable of handling roles previously reserved…
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A sign of things to come in software development? Mark Zuckerberg says AI will be doing the work of mid-level engineers this year – and he’s not the only big tech exec predicting the end of the profession
Mark Zuckerberg has hinted that Meta could begin replacing software engineers with AI as early as 2025, marking the latest in a string of troubling predictions for the profession. The bold statement came during his interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast earlier this month, where Zuckerberg suggested AI code generation systems are nearing a point where they can replicate…
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Arctera Backup Exec 24 review
Backup Exec has always been a great data protection choice for SMBs and it starts a new chapter in its life as Cohesity closes its acquisition of Veritas. Cohesity keeps the NetBackup enterprise backup software with Backup Exec now spun off to the new company Arctera along with Veritas’ InfoScale and other products in its data compliance and governance group.…
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