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At a Fast Company event moderated by Stephanie Mehta, Supergoop CEO Melis Del Rey, Bel North America CEO Peter McGuinness, and BBC Studios direct-to-consumer chief Robert Schildhouse discussed the challenges of stepping into top leadership roles. The three executives compared notes on managing employee expectations and public skepticism toward corporate leaders in the early stages of their tenures.
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel told the BBC his company would consider adopting default daily time limits for teenage users, echoing measures Meta agreed to in a recent $12.7bn settlement with US states. Meta had pledged two-hour daily caps, muted school-hours notifications and nighttime blocks for teens, and offered to pay an extra $5.3bn if rivals like Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopt similar restrictions.
A new BBC Sounds documentary, Doctor Who: Lost in Cambridge, revisits the 1979 filming of 'Shada,' a Douglas Adams-penned Doctor Who serial shot in Cambridge but never completed. Doctor Who Magazine editor Marcus Hearn shared his father's recollections as a Clare College porter, describing how Tom Baker repeatedly fell into the River Cam while learning to punt and needed blankets and brandy to recover his mood.
Jacob Coxon, who left Anthropic after previously working at OpenAI, told the BBC that people inside leading AI labs are deeply afraid of how fast the technology is advancing and what that pace could mean for humanity's survival. He said his resignation reflects fears shared by many insiders, and noted that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has separately argued that AI development should slow down.
Uber began operating self-driving minicabs in London on Thursday, becoming the first company to offer such a service in the UK. The initial rollout includes just 15 autonomous vehicles, each requiring a human safety driver ready to intervene, with fares matching standard UberX, Electric or Comfort rides shown upfront in the app.
Berlin's government has been hit by a hacking incident in which attackers are reportedly demanding a ransom, according to Mayor Kai Wegner. Wegner said state police, prosecutors and federal security agencies are urgently investigating who is behind the breach and determining what data was compromised.
Apple TV has acquired worldwide streaming rights to Small Prophets, a comedy that became the BBC's top-rated new scripted series launch this year, months after it aired in the UK. The show will begin streaming on Apple TV on October 7 in most markets, including the US, while UK viewers will get it next year after its run on BBC iPlayer ends.
Six male employees working in different roles and locations at a German airport contracted malaria, with two later dying from the disease. Officials suspect the infections stemmed from a mosquito that arrived on an incoming flight, and are now testing blood samples to determine whether one insect or several were responsible.