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☆ Hollywood studios should cut Netflix out of strike negotiations, Barry Diller says
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Barry Diller is calling on the legacy Hollywood studios to end the dual writers and actors strikes, otherwise it'll be "catastrophic" to the industry. The media mogul, speaking on the podcast "On with Kara Swisher," said the strikes would only strengthen streaming giant Netflix during a tumultuous time for legacy media. He also advised studios to cut Netflix and other streamers out of the negoations with the unions. He said the legacy studios, actors and writers should be "natural allies" given their century of working together. Diller said legacy media should take some of its "shows and creativity and build our networks back up.
Persons: Barry Diller, Kara Swisher, Diller, Netflix didn't, Bob Iger, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav, Comcast's NBCUniversal, Swisher Organizations: Hollywood, Netflix, IAC, Expedia, Fox, Paramount, ABC Entertainment, Apple, CBS, Guild of America, Alliance, Television Producers, WGA, SAG, Disney, Warner Bros, Discovery, Paramount Global, Comcast, CNBC
☆ Billionaire CEOs said working from home made them happier. Some now want to fire workers who don't show up to the office.
  + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Meta CEO told staff they could expect him to spend half of the next year working remotely. True to his word, in his first week Musk banned remote work in a 2:30 a.m email to Twitter staff. Still: Unlike some of the other wealthy CEOs on this list, Eric Yuan has always been a little skeptical of permanent remote work. Roy RochlinSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff was initially outspoken in his support for remote working. Joining the growing list of CEOs that say remote work is not conducive to productivity, Salesforce revised its work-from-anywhere strategy.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Goldman Sachs, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Zuckerberg, Meta, I've, Erin Scott, Skip, Insider's Kali Hays, Hugh Langley, Evan Spiegel, Miranda Kerr, Pierre Mouton, Stringer, Spiegel, I'm, ERIC PIERMONT, Kali Hays, Jack Dorsey, PRAKASH SINGH, lockdowns, Dorsey, Elon Musk, Musk, Zoe Schiffer, hasn't, Eric Yuan, Kena, Zoom, Kelly Steckelberg, Yuan, Marc Benioff, Roy Rochlin, Salesforce, Benioff, Justin Sullivan, Kara Swisher Organizations: Service, Meta, Harvard Business School, Wall Street, Staff, CNBC, Getty, Twitter, San, New, Elon, San Francisco, Bloomberg, Zoom, Workers, MarketWatch, Smith, Yahoo Finance, Insider Locations: Wall, Silicon, San Francisco, Singapore, Silicon Valley , California
☆ Disney heiress says 'money and power have hijacked' CEO Bob Iger's sensibilities
  + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Disney heiress Abigail Disney has some criticisms of Bob Iger's handling of her family's business. She told Fortune he's "a basically decent person" but "money and power have hijacked his sensibilities." Abigail Disney has some thoughts on Bob Iger's leadership of her family's company. The 63-year-old film producer, who is the grand-niece of Walt Disney, addressed Disney CEO Iger's controversial remarks about the ongoing strikes in Hollywood in a Fortune interview published Tuesday. "I think Bob is a basically decent person, but I think money and power have hijacked his sensibilities," Abigail Disney told Fortune.
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☆ Twitter is a more dangerous platform for the LGBTQ community now than it was a year ago, GLAAD finds
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Brandon Gomez | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Twitter is a more dangerous social platform for LGBTQ users now than it was a year ago, according to a new survey from LGBTQ+ rights organization GLAAD. GLAAD found that the platforms continue to fall short at establishing and enforcing safeguards meant to protect LGBTQ users from hate speech. "You can think of community notes as like an error correction on information in the network. And the effect of community notes is actually bigger than it would seem. The debate over a community notes approach is that it leaves the burden on those affected by hate speech to report harmful posts.
Persons: Kara Swisher, Sarah Kate Ellis, Jack Malon, we've, we're, Elon Musk, Musk, CNBC's David Faber Organizations: CNBC, New York, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, GLAAD, Machine
☆ CNN management focused on 'listening' and 'getting back to work' as the network moves on from Chris Licht
  + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Trisha Gopal | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
A trio of longtime executives have taken charge at CNN following the exit of Chris Licht. There's a moment in Tim Alberta's brutal profile of CNN's now-former CEO Chris Licht where Licht awkwardly takes a jab at his predecessor Jeff Zucker. The following Monday, as Licht attempted to quell growing calls for his ouster, Licht told CNN staff: "As I read that article, I found myself thinking, CNN is not about me. Jeff Zucker and Chris Licht at an event in 2019, back when Zucker still ran CNN and Licht was the showrunner on The Late Show on CBS. If Licht was seen as mismanaging CNN's top talent, Entelis, in particular, is known to be the queen of talent.
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☆ Media insiders react as CNN's embattled CEO steps down: 'The only person who hates bad press more than Chris Licht is ... David Zaslav.'
  + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN CEO Chris Licht stepped down on Wednesday following a damning profile in The Atlantic. "The only person who hates bad press more than Chris Licht is ... David Zaslav," said one ex-CNN staffer. CNN CEO Chris Licht has stepped down after a damning profile in The Atlantic signaled the end to a tumultuous 14 months on the job. Licht stepped into the role in April 2022 after the merger that formed Warner Bros. David Zaslav, the head of the parent company, and John Malone, a big investor, have very specific *editorial ideas for how news should work.
Persons: Chris Licht, David Zaslav, Jeff Zucker, Licht, Oliver Darcy, Brian Stelter, Jamie Stelter, Brian, Kara Swisher, " Swisher, CNN's, Zucker, Glenn Greenwald, Edmund Lee, weren't Licht's, Greenwald, Lee, John Malone Organizations: CNN, Morning, Warner Bros, Wall Street Journal, NY1, Tech, New York Times Locations: Trump
☆ Elon Musk and Sam Altman founded OpenAI together, but now they publicly trade barbs. Here's the history of their relationship and feud.
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Altman recently addressed some of Musk's gripes about OpenAI. "I mean, he's a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him — he has a style that is not a style that I'd want to have for myself," Altman told Swisher. "But I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future's going to look like for humanity." In response to Musk's claim that OpenAI has turned into "a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft," Altman said on the podcast, "Most of that is not true, and I think Elon knows that." Source: "On With Kara Swisher", Insider
☆ Fmr. NBCU Head of Advertising slated to be Twitter's next CEO, leaves role at NBCU
  + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFmr. NBCU Head of Advertising slated to be Twitter's next CEO, leaves role at NBCUKara Swisher, New York Magazine editor-at-large, joins 'Last Call' to discuss Linda Yaccarino's hiring as Twitter's next CEO and her departure from NBCU.
☆ Let the guessing game begin! Elon Musk's cryptic Twitter CEO tweet drives speculation — and plenty of joke theories
  + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk offered few clues about Twitter's next CEO, besides that "she" will take over in weeks. The cryptic post drove plenty of people on Musk's platform to suggest possible contenders. One serious guess came from tech journalist Kara Swisher, who laid out her case and observations in a Twitter thread. An NBCUniversal spokesperson told Insider that Yaccarino was preparing for the Upfronts, an event where media companies pitch advertisers. Guesses included famous tech names, some quickly debunkedYou didn't have to look far on Twitter to see some famous tech names like Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, or Susan Wojcicki being floated.
☆ Tucker Carlson just moved from one mercurial media boss to another
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Tucker Carlson announced Tuesday his plans to bring his prime time show to Twitter. Tucker Carlson is picking up his megaphone again, but it's unclear how much he'll poke the bear on Twitter under Elon Musk. "I'm stuck with Fox," a text from Carlson to Brett Baier reads. Meanwhile, Carlson's former boss, Rupert Murdoch, reportedly made the decision to oust him, according to the Los Angeles Times. Musk has said that Carlson would be considered a content creator and that he had no hand in Carlson's production deal.
☆ Sam Altman is building his utopia, whether you want it or not
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +41 min
Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully." "I don't think anyone can lose your dad young and wish he didn't have more time with him," Altman told Insider. Altman told Insider that his thinking had evolved since those posts. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!
☆ He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +41 min
But, "you do at some point need to start having contact with reality," he told Insider. The plan was still only a rough sketch, Blania told Insider, but that didn't seem to matter to his host. "He always wanted to understand everything at a very deep level," Thrun told Insider in an email. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!
☆ How Elon Musk transformed Twitter’s blue check from status symbol into a badge of shame
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
Over the weekend, numerous high-profile people announced — with apparent despair — that they too had been “punished” with verification badges. Twitter Verified account seen in an iPhone screen in Vancouver, Canada, on Dec. 9 2022. Instead of conveying authenticity, Twitter verification is now fraught with multiple conflicting messages. For weeks, many legacy verified users had signaled they would not be paying for Twitter Blue. It doesn’t benefit Twitter for celebrity accounts to be buried along with the other non-paying accounts Musk has said the platform will demote.
☆ Larry Summers says the Fed has inflation on the ropes, calls out crypto frauds, and bemoans the debt-ceiling fiasco. Here are the ex-Treasury chief's 12 best quotes from a new interview.
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The Fed may only have to hike interest rates once more to beat inflation, Larry Summers says. Here are Summers' 12 best quotes, lightly edited for length and clarity:The Fed and interest rates:1. "There's an old political observation: 100% of the people pay rising prices, and only 6% of the people are unemployed. I think there's some logic to that." I don't think the idea of defaulting on the debt associated with spending we've already done should be on the table."
☆ Vox Media announces new hosts of iconic Code Conference after Kara Swisher’s departure
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
New York CNN —Vox Media is gearing up for its first Code Conference without Kara Swisher at the helm. The invite-only event, which attracts top technology executives and journalists, will be hosted by The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel, Platformer founder Casey Newton and CNBC senior media and tech reporter Julia Boorstin, Vox Media told CNN on Wednesday. Swisher, the journalist who co-founded the news-making conference with reporter Walt Mossberg and hosted it for the past two decades, will still participate in the conference, albeit in a less outsized role. “This year, there will be more to discuss than ever,” Jim Bankoff, chief executive of Vox Media, told CNN. “Code will build on Kara’s legacy, and we’ll continue to evolve the conference to best serve its audience.
☆ Elon Musk made Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2023 list — but was called an 'online troll' fiddling on a 'toxic violin' while Twitter 'burns'
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk was on Time's list of the most influential people, but his profile was less than flattering. Kara Swisher dubbed Musk an "online troll" that is "fiddling on his toxic violin" on Twitter. The Tesla CEO has said in the past that he has "been under constant attack" from news outlets. The Tesla CEO was also on the publication's list of most influential people in the world in 2010, 2013, 2018, and 2021. The billionaire has faced scrutiny over the years, from reports of the Tesla CEO rage-firing employees to criticism of his handling of content moderation on Twitter.
☆ Elon Musk reportedly once insulted an OpenAI intern after he questioned his decision to pursue AGI tech at Tesla
  + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
He reportedly called one intern a "jackass" after he questioned his decision to pursue AGI at Tesla. And an OpenAI executive later had a "jackass" trophy made for the intern to commemorate the quarrel. Musk reportedly told staff he thought Tesla had a better chance of achieving artificial general intelligence – the point at which AI is as capable as humans. Then Musk "grew visibly frustrated" and called the intern a "jackass," the Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. Musk seemed to be less confident about the company's role in the technology's future in 2022, tweeting: "Tesla AI might play a role in AGI."
☆ CEOs are quietly backtracking on remote work—and more companies could follow
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
More companies are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home on a full or part-time basis. Across industries, major corporations including Disney, Twitter and Starbucks are requiring employees to spend more time at the office. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, is the latest leader to appear to reverse course after embracing remote work and criticizing return-to-office mandates. "Our hybrid approach empowers leaders to make decisions for their teams about how and where they work," a Salesforce spokesperson said in a statement. "And if leaders at big companies are adjusting their return to office policies, others will see that and think, 'I can do the same.'"
☆ Sam Altman responds to Elon Musk's criticism of OpenAI: 'I mean, he's a jerk,' but 'he does really care'
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Sam Altman rejected Elon Musk's criticism that OpenAI is now pursuing "maximum-profit." OpenAI's CEO said on Kara Swisher's podcast that Musk has "his style" but "he does really care." "Most of that is not true, and I think Elon knows that," Altman said on Swisher's podcast. "I mean, he's a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him — he has a style that is not a style that I'd want to have for myself," Altman told Swisher. "I don't think it would be good right now for us to open-source GPT-4, for example," he told Swisher.
☆ Elon Musk was reportedly 'furious' at ChatGPT's popularity after he left the company behind it, OpenAI, years ago
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk was reportedly mad when OpenAI's ChatGPT made its splashy debut, Semafor reports. The OpenAI cofounder tweeted that the company became a "ruthless corporate monopoly" after he left. In the months following its launch, Musk took to Twitter to express his frustrations over OpenAI. Two months later, Musk criticized OpenAI on Twitter in February for becoming "a closed source maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft," when the company was founded on the basis of transparency. Musk is now reportedly seeking to create a rival AI chatbot to ChatGPT.
☆ Is TikTok’s time up? CEO’s skewering before Congress raises questions about app’s future in the US
  + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
“TikTok’s fate in the US is on shakier ground than ever following lawmakers’ grueling questioning of Chew,” Insider Intelligence principal analyst Jasmine Enberg said. The 40-year-old Harvard-educated Chew was never going to get a warm welcome from US lawmakers. Chew, welcome to the most bipartisan committee in Congress,” Republican Rep. That said, Chew needed to provide clear, direct answers to questions posed by lawmakers, particularly those regarding fears of potential Chinese authority over the company. Instead, his murky answers on questions pertaining to the Communist Party of China led to added confusion at times.
☆ Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn cofounder, said he talks to his friend Peter Thiel less to avoid political discussion and feuding over Donald Trump
  + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Reid Hoffman said he talks to his friend Peter Thiel less now on an episode of "On with Kara Swisher." Hoffman wants to avoid arguing with Thiel over former President Donald Trump. When Swisher asked Hoffman if Thiel hears him, Hoffman said, "I don't know." When they met as sophomores at Stanford in the mid-1990s, Hoffman heard Thiel was a "libertarian wacko," while Thiel was told Hoffman was a "pinko commie," Hoffman said on his podcast "Masters of Scale." Hoffman told Swisher he will "spend as much as I possibly can" to avoid another Trump presidency, saying it would be "destructive to our society."
☆ Instagram cofounder says the app has 'lost the soul'
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Instagram cofounder Kevin Systrom said the app has "lost the soul" on an episode of "On with Kara Swisher." The app, he said, used to be for family and friends to share photos. "My biggest regret, I think, at Instagram is how commercial it got," Systrom said. "I think we've lost the soul of what made Instagram Instagram," Systrom said during a podcast interview with tech reporter Kara Swisher. That creates a "terrifying" dynamic, he said, where Instagram users believe that the curated facades they see on the app are people's real lives.
☆ TikTok went big at SXSW and creators discussed building lasting businesses. Here are 3 takeaways that I left Austin with.
  + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Creators gathered at Meta's Austin, TX offices for a series of talks hosted by the Asian Creator House. Whether creators were talking about pay transparency, or startups were pitching their products as solutions, creator monetization was an ongoing conversation at SXSW. "More and more creators are being transparent as to how much they're making," said Monica Ravichandran, creator and Collective Voice staffer. At the Asian Creator House, led by Always Be Creating cofounders Justin Nguyen and Jerry Won, creator pay and business building were also top of mind. But on the brand and marketing side of SXSW, AI wasn't a potent topic, according to Influencer's Penchin.
☆ SVB is just a bank that made a bad call and there was a run on it, says Kara Swisher
  + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSVB is just a bank that made a bad call and there was a run on it, says Kara SwisherTech journalist Kara Swisher and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez joins CNBC's Brian Sullivan and 'Last Call' to discuss the collapse of SVB and who is really to blame.
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