Pay TV distributors are confused, concerned about sports joint venture

Pay TV distributors are confused, concerned about sports joint venture

A Major League Baseball logo at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, May 22, 2022. Ronald Martinez | Getty Images It’s been about a week since Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox announced a new joint venture to offer live sports outside the traditional cable bundle, and pay TV distributors are still trying to figure out … Read more

Richard Branson, Oppenheimer grandson urge action on AI, climate

Richard Branson, Oppenheimer grandson urge action on AI, climate

Richard Branson believes the environmental costs of space travel will “come down even further.” Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Dozens of high-profile figures in business and politics are calling on world leaders to address the existential risks of artificial intelligence and the climate crisis. Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, along with former United … Read more

Lyft CEO takes blame for ‘extra zero’ in Q4 earnings release

Lyft CEO takes blame for ‘extra zero’ in Q4 earnings release

Lyft CEO David Risher took responsibility for the major error that appeared in the company’s fourth-quarter earnings release late Tuesday, telling CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that it’s “super frustrating” for everyone on the team. Shares of the ride-sharing company soared more than 60% after the report first came out because the press release said Lyft would … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg comments on Apple’s Vision Pro

Mark Zuckerberg comments on Apple’s Vision Pro

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Oculus Touch controllers during the Oculus Connect 3 event in San Jose, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his opinion of Apple‘s new mixed reality headset, the Vision … Read more

Delivery Hero happy to keep Asia unit Foodpanda ‘forever,’ CEO says

Delivery Hero happy to keep Asia unit Foodpanda ‘forever,’ CEO says

Delivery Hero CEO Niklas Östberg speaking at the Noah tech conference in Berlin on June 13, 2019. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg via Getty Images Delivery Hero CEO Niklas Ostberg said that he’s happy holding onto the Foodpanda brand, after reports that talks of potentially selling the Southeast Asian unit had collapsed drove a huge plunge … Read more

Jon Stewart’s return to ‘The Daily Show’ felt familiar to those who missed him while he was away

Jon Stewart’s return to ‘The Daily Show’ felt familiar to those who missed him while he was away

NEW YORK — No, Jon Stewart really wasn’t sitting at his desk at Comedy Central for the last nine years, waiting for someone to turn the lights back on. Yet it almost felt that way during Stewart’s return to “The Daily Show” Monday night. His signature moves — blunt satire, facial grimaces, incisive use of … Read more

Pain, sweat and sandworms: In ‘Dune 2’ Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and the cast rise to the challenge

Pain, sweat and sandworms: In ‘Dune 2’ Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and the cast rise to the challenge

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler were really looking forward to their fight. The actors had been training, separately, with a Kali instructor in Los Angeles to prepare for the climactic showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd Rautha in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two. ” When they finally met … Read more

The way AI will be sold to a skeptical public is becoming clear

The way AI will be sold to a skeptical public is becoming clear

Many AI companies struggle with customers understanding how the product won’t take away their ability to think for themselves. A few took the opportunity of the Super Bowl to change the narrative. There’s no greater opportunity to reach 123 million live viewers at once and get massive press buzz, even if it cost $7 million … Read more

Paramount Global lays off 800 employees after record Super Bowl ratings

Paramount Global lays off 800 employees after record Super Bowl ratings

Paramount executive Bob Bakish attends the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) at the PSD Bank Dome in Duesseldorf, Germany, November 13, 2022.  Thilo Schmuelgen | Reuters Paramount Global is laying off hundreds of employees, just one day after the company announced CBS had record Super Bowl viewership, Chief Executive Officer Bob Bakish said Tuesday … Read more

They call her the muse of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival. She insists she’s a missionary

They call her the muse of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival. She insists she’s a missionary

RIO DE JANEIRO — Standing 9 feet tall, Raquel Potí regularly graces the front pages of Brazilian magazines and newspapers, and on Saturday the artist donned a lavish feathered costume and lacquered her body in gold glitter. At one point she charged the length of the street party, sweeping her rainbow wings like she was … Read more