Published on: 2025-06-05 07:30:00
Augmented World Expo 2025 will draw more than 6,000 attendees, 400 speakers and 300 global exhibitors to its event June 10 to June 12 in Long Beach, California. The speaker lineup includes Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell and Oculus/Anduril founder Palmer Luckey. If the show is any indication, the XR industry isn’t doing so bad. A variety of market researchers are forecasting fast growth for the industry through 2030. Ori Inbar, CEO of AWE, believes that the XR revolution i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 13:01:44
90 Pages Posted: 27 May 2025 Date Written: May 01, 2025 Abstract We examine how selection bias in CEO promotion amplifies risk-taking, using prenatal exposure to pollution as an exogenous shock to individual risk preferences. CEOs born in future Superfund sites are more likely to be promoted internally, suggesting firms reward observed success without recognizing underlying risk tolerance. These "Superfund CEOs" excel in internal roles but pursue riskier external policies once promoted-leadin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 03:00:59
Instacart on Wednesday appointed business chief Chris Rogers as its new CEO, less than a month after OpenAI announced CEO Fidji Simo as its new head of applications. Shares were flat. Rogers, who joined Instacart in 2019, will start Aug. 15 and join the board of directors. Simo will retain her chair position to "smooth the transition," the company said. "Over the last four years, we've transformed Instacart into a growing, profitable, leading technology platform that's helping reshape the gro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 02:00:00
Instacart announced on Wednesday that its chief business officer, Chris Rogers, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. The appointment is effective August 15. Rogers will also join Instacart’s Board of Directors. The announcement comes a few weeks after Instacart CEO Fidji Simo shared that she’s stepping down to join OpenAI as CEO of Applications. Simo will remain Chair of the Board at Instacart. In his role as Chief Business Officer, Rogers oversaw Instacart’s retailer relationships and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 05:52:00
A hot potato: As if we didn't already know how much CEOs love the job-cutting, cost-slashing, investor-pleasing benefits of AI, chief executives are now using the technology to create avatars of themselves in earnings calls. Klarna's CEO recently did it, and now Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has followed suit. Yuan used an AI avatar of himself via Zoom Clips, the company's asynchronous video creation tool. The clip, which you can see here at around the 2:40 mark, shows a realistic-looking recreation of th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 05:05:00
Welcome back to Week in Review! Tons of news from this week for you, including a hacking group that’s linked to the Spanish government; CEOs using AI avatars to deliver company earnings; Pocket shutting down — or is it?; and much more. Let’s get to it! More than 10 years in the making: Kaspersky first revealed the existence of Careto in 2014, and at the time, its researchers called the group “one of the most advanced threats at the moment.” Kaspersky never publicly linked the hacking group to a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 01:22:05
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an unveiling event in New York on Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon shareholders rejected a proposal to adopt a policy that would require the company's CEO and board chair roles to remain separate. Vote totals disclosed in a filing Thursday show about 82% of shareholders rejected the proposal. The independent proposal was submitted alongside seven others at Amazon's annual meeting on Wednesday. Each of the independent proposals were rejected. Amazon split the roles of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 13:36:31
Sebastian Siemiatkowski is leaning all the way into the idea that his buy-now-pay-later, IPO-bound startup Klarna is an AI company. When Klarna delivered updated quarterly earnings on Monday, it was his AI avatar (pictured above) that presented the highlights, according to the company’s YouTube video. Other than AI Siemiatkowski’s admission, it wasn’t obvious that this was AI. There were only a few subtle signs: AI Siemiatkowski didn’t blink as much as most humans do. The voice sync was good, b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 10:24:35
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on January 31, 2025 shows (L) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025, and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on January 31, 2025. Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chip giant Nvidia, met January 31, 2025 with President Donald Trump as the company suffered a rough week on Wall Street over competition with China and the threat of tariffs on semiconductors. It's been a stellar week for techno
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 22:10:19
CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in Washington on May 8, 2025. CoreWeave investors are having a big week. Shares of the artificial intelligence infrastructure provider rose 56% over the past five trading days, lifting the company's market cap to over $37 billion. CoreWeave has more than doubled in value since its initial public offering in late March. The company got a big boost after reporting 420% revenue growth in its
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 09:19:56
In an abrupt and surprising twist, the CEO of Ozempic-maker Novo Nordisk has been ousted from his position as the head of the company. The Dutch pharmaceutical giant announced Friday that, amidst a recent downturn in the company’s stock, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen would soon be stepping down as its top executive and the board would seek a successor for him. “As per mutual agreement with the Novo Nordisk Board, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen will step down from his role as CEO of Novo Nordisk,” the co
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 01:15:59
CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in Washington on May 8, 2025. Intrator and fellow tech leaders testified about the global artificial intelligence race and how the United States can remain competitive. CoreWeave investors are having a big week. Shares of the artificial intelligence infrastructure provider are up nearly 60% gain in the past five trading days, lifting the company's market cap to about $38 billion. CoreWeav
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 09:55:38
Lisa Su, president and CEO of AMD, talks about the AMD EPYC processor during a keynote address at the 2019 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., January 9, 2019. AMD said on Wednesday that its board of directors approved $6 billion in share buybacks. The stock climbed 6%. The authorization is in addition to $4 billion in existing approved share repurchases, the company said. "Our expanded share repurchase program reflects the Board's confidence in AMD's strategic direction, growth prospects, and ab
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 00:07:58
A recent survey by tech giant IBM came to a conclusion that could send shockwaves through Wall Street and the tech sector writ large. The survey asked whether or not company leaders were reporting that their AI initiatives delivered the expected return on investment. A shockingly small proportion of the surveyed CEOs reported that the tech was delivering on its promises, with only a quarter of the 2,000 respondents answering in the affirmative, while only 16 percent scaled AI across the entire
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 05:20:36
Senior Advisor to the US President Elon Musk (L) and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (C) are directed to greet the Saudi Crown Prince at the Royal Court in Riyadh on May 13, 2025. Wealth and power. Global political and business leaders gathered in Riyadh Tuesday for the Saudi Arabia Investment Forum, discussing the artificial intelligence boom and global trade. President Donald Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as several deals were announced between the two countries. Saudi Arab
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Tareq Amin, CEO of Humain, and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, attend the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia May 13, 2025. Nvidia will sell over 18,000 of its latest artificial intelligence chips to Saudi Arabian company Humain, CEO Jensen Huang announced on Tuesday. The announcement was made as part of a White House-led trip to the region that includes President Donald Trump and other top CEOs. The cutting-edge Blackwell chips will be used in a 500 megawatt data center in Saud
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 02:07:00
Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got lots of news for you this week: There were CEO shake-ups at Instacart and 11x; the web series is back — kind of; Threads is getting video ads; and much more. Let’s get to it! Big move: Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will become OpenAI’s CEO for Applications, the company said this week. Simo is already on the OpenAI board. She’ll be tasked with helping OpenAI in scaling “traditional” company functions, CEO Sam Altman said, but he didn’t provide any details on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 14:19:11
Hit Apple TV+ comedy The Studio has been packed with celebrity cameos, and this week’s Golden Globes episode took things to a whole new level. But the most shocking cameo of the episode—indeed, the whole season—apparently wouldn’t have happened if Apple got its way. Apple requested that Tim Cook replace Netflix CEO Among the deep roster of celebrity cameos in The Studio’s latest episode, one that had a recurring bit was Netflix’s CEO Ted Sarandos. Throughout the episode, which is set at the G
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 01:45:20
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. OpenAI has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart and former Facebook app chief, as the head of the company’s apps business. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says introducing the new role will allow him to “focus on research, compute, and safety.” Simo has served as an OpenAI board member since last year, but she won’t leave Instacart right aw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 20:43:16
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, right, speaks alongside President Donald Trump about investing in America, at the White House in Washington, on April 30, 2025. Nvidia shares rose on Wednesday as the Trump administration prepared to rescind what's known as the "AI diffusion rule," effectively stopping a set of artificial intelligence chip controls from taking effect later this month. A Department of Commerce spokesperson confirmed the plan to CNBC after Bloomberg reported on it earlier. "The Biden AI
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 05:53:09
Getty Images / Teera Konakan / ZDNET Since AI first surged in popularity, the question for enterprises has gone from "should we implement it?" to "how can we implement it to maximize results?" Yet, CEOs aren't sure that business leaders have what it takes to lead the charge. On Tuesday, the research firm Gartner released the results of the Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey of 456 CEOs and other senior business executives worldwide. The survey found that only 44% of chief informa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 06:20:13
Speaking at Stripe Sessions 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t miss the opportunity to frame Apple as the foe—and Google as the friend. Stripe CEO and co-founder John Collison asked Zuckerberg about Apple after the latest U.S. court decision that forced Apple to loosen its App Store rules. “Tim’s had a bad week,” Zuckerberg quipped. “I’m not gonna pile on, but I like Sundar.” Points for performative restraint with a wink, but the gap between Apple and Google on app marketplace openness is m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 05:23:57
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, speaks on a panel titled Power, Purpose, and the New American Century at the Hill and Valley Forum at the U.S. Capitol on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Palantir CEO Alex Karp offered up another batch of colorful commentary to investors alongside the data analytics company's first-quarter earnings. In a letter to shareholders, Karp quoted his own book and some significant historical figures — including St. Augustine and President Richard Nixon — and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 17:35:21
In Brief More than 250 CEOs signed an open letter published in The New York Times on Monday calling for AI and computer science to be “core components” of K-12 curricula. The signatories, which include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, argue that computer science and AI education are essential to “keeping America competitive.” “Countries like Brazil, China, [South] Korea, and Singapore have already made computer science or AI mandatory for e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 10:00:31
The CEO of one of the world's leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud: that nobody really knows how AI works. In an essay published to his personal website, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced plans to create a robust "MRI on AI" within the next decade. The goal is not only to figure out what makes the technology tick, but also to head off any unforeseen dangers associated with what he says remains its currently enigmatic nature. "When a generative AI system doe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 22:53:26
Computex 2025 is approaching, and it’s sure to bring a ton of announcements about the latest chips, laptops, gaming devices and more from leading brands. The event in Taipei will kick off on Monday, May 19 with a keynote from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at the Taipei Music Center. There will be a livestream for anyone not attending in person, so you can watch along on the Computex website or YouTube channel. Huang’s keynote is scheduled for 11PM ET/ 8PM PT on May 18 (11AM on May 19 in Taiwan Time),
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-20 11:14:00
The big picture: The rise of AI in software engineering has sparked debate about the future of programming jobs, especially for those entering the field. While the percentage of AI-written code is likely to continue evolving, the need for skilled human judgment is not expected to disappear anytime soon. At the recent LlamaCon conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella offered a glimpse into how deeply AI has become woven into the fabric of modern software development. "I'd say maybe 20 percent, 30
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 01:23:52
is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. For many self-proclaimed cinephiles, enjoying movies has become an odd game of logging titles into Letterboxd and shouting at each other online about box office totals. And now, MoviePass has a plan to capitalize on that energy with a platform built on the blockchain. Today, MoviePass and Mysten Labs announced the imminent launch of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 05:33:36
Shares of Tesla were flat in premarket trading Thursday after the EV maker denied a Wall Street Journal report that its board was searching for a replacement for chief executive Elon Musk. The report, citing comments from sources familiar with the discussions, said that Tesla's board members reached out to several executive search firms to work on a formal process for finding the company's next CEO. Shares of Tesla fell as much as 3% in overnight trading on trading platform Robinhood following
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-26 01:56:16
Google TL;DR Alphabet’s CEO says he hopes that Gemini will become a built-in AI option for iPhones. It was revealed that a deal to accomplish this could be done by the middle of this year. Apple has previously confirmed that it wants Gemini on iPhones. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has been battling through an ongoing antitrust case brought up by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). The case could result in the company being forced to sell off Chrome. During court proceedings for this ca
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