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Brad Pitt Continues 'F1' Movie Promotion at Apple Store Q&A With CEO Tim Cook
Brad Pitt has been busy promoting his new F1 movie! The 61-year-old actor continued his promo trail with an appearance at the 5th Avenue Apple Store on Sunday (June...

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans | TechCrunch
In a Bloomberg interview Wednesday night in downtown San Francisco, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make half the company’s 180,000-person workforce redundant....

Banijay CEO Marco Bassetti to Receive the Variety Vanguard Award at Mipcom Cannes
Banijay CEO Marco Bassetti is set to receive the Variety Vanguard Award, which will be presented in October at the Mipcom global content market in Cannes. The award recognizes television industry leaders who have made a...

Former DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg co-leads $15.5M Series A for AI video ad platform | TechCrunch
DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg’s venture fund WndrCo co-led a $15.5 million Series A round for Creatify, an AI video ad platform. Creatify’s AdMax platform uses AI to quickly generate...

Market Basket CEO is put on leave in new spat at family-controlled supermarket chain
Market Basket's board says it has placed CEO Arthur T. Demoulas on leave, citing allegations that he was planning a work stoppage among employees at the family-controlled supermarket chain....

Apple CEO reportedly urged Texas’ governor to ditch online child safety bill | TechCrunch
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to make changes to or veto a newly passed law in the state that would require the company to...

Luminar secures up to $200M following CEO departure and layoffs | TechCrunch
Lidar company Luminar reached a deal with Yorkville Advisors Global and another unnamed investor that could bring another $200 million into its coffers through the sale of convertible preferred...

Klarna used an AI avatar of its CEO to deliver earnings, it said | TechCrunch
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...

Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch on Revving Up the Premium Channel and Streamer After Long-Gestating Split From Lionsgate
Starz is finally in its own orbit. The premium channel that had been owned by Lionsgate since 2016 formally completed its long-awaited separation from the studio on May 7....

IBM CEO urges the Trump Administration to increase — not cut — federal AI R&D funding | TechCrunch
Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around....