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RedBird Founder Says Majority of Paramount-WBD Merger Cost Savings Won’t Come From Jobs (opens the original)
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While Hollywood is bracing for a bloodbath when Paramount closes its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the company’s biggest backer said those fears are overblown. “The notion that $6 billion of cost-related synergies means the firing of all these people is just completely antiquated,” Gerry Cardinale, founder of RedBird Capital Partners and a major shareholder in the combined company, said during the Bloomberg Screentime conference on Thursday. Cardinale, who first backed David Ellison at
Tapping AI to Make Sense of Gen Z's Pop Culture Obsessions (opens the original)
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Identifying what’s in the zeitgeist is easy, but quantifying it is difficult. That’s what AI researcher Yves Bergquist is trying to achieve with his startup CortoAI and its agent, Geist. Bergquist, who is also an AI researcher and principal for AI Enterprise Systems at the Entertainment Technology Center at USC, showed off the tool at TheWrap’s Grill business conference. Geist promises to track, model and predict the cultural zeitgeist, employing a custom-built model, agentic AI and vast amounts
Ben Affleck Walks Back Matt Damon's 'Claim' Netflix Demanded Plot Repetition in Dialogue (opens the original)
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In January, Matt Damon caused a stir when he appeared with Ben Affleck on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said Netflix urged the duo to restate the plot of the film “three or four times” for the sake of distracted viewers. The comment struck a chord because viewers have long suspected such a directive (just watch the final season of “Stranger Things), but Affleck, appearing at the Bloomberg Screentime conference on Wednesday night, set the record straight. “I’ve never met anybody who’s had a note that i
Rob Bonta: We're Looking Very Closely at OpenAI and Anthropic (opens the original)
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta said his office is looking “very closely” at OpenAI and Anthropic’s businesss in the wake of the safety warnings issued by the AI companies themselves. “It’s a top priority for our office,” Bonta told TheWrap CEO and editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman during a spotlight panel at our TheGrill business conference Wednesday. “This is all hands on deck, in my humble opinion.” Bonta said his office was looking at the “Hugging Face” incident, in which OpenAI’s AI agent
Stability AI CEO: In One Year, Our AI Tools Will Be Essential to Making All Music (opens the original)
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While most tech CEOs take a “build it, and they will come” mentality to building their products, Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju said he doesn’t develop any applications or AI models without the experts in the field. “I find it incomprehensible creating creator tools without creators,” Akkaraju said Tuesday at TheWrap’s inaugural AI Creator Day, a part of our annual Grill business conference. It’s that approach that Akkaraju believes gives Stability AI, best known for its Stable Diffusion and Sta
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