Paramount Global Chief Executive Bob Bakish is expected to be ousted from the company, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Bakish's departure comes as Paramount's future hangs in the balance. The company is currently in a 30-day exclusive negotiating period with tech scion David Ellison, whose Skydance Media has teamed up with investment firms RedBird Capital and KKR to acquire Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone's National Amusements holding company. That exclusive...
Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez said Monday his team's Champions League quarter-final second leg clash against Paris Saint-Germain would be similar to the first leg thriller.Xavi said PSG's coach Luis Enrique, who was on the Barcelona bench the last time the Catalans won the Champions League in 2015, would send his team out to harry the hosts.
Capital One’s first quarter results showed consumers continue to spend on their cards — and management touted the benefits of the proposed $35 billion buyout of Discover Financial Services. Purchase volume on its cards was up 6% year over year to $146.6 billion, but was 7% below the fourth quarter of 2023. The company’s supplementals […]
Researchers in India have discovered a giant extinct snake, measuring up to 50 feet long and believed to be the largest madtsoiid snake ever recorded. The Vasuki indicus specimen dates back 47 million years and is almost double the average size of similar snakes, like pythons.Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee discovered an "excellently preserved, partial vertebral column" of the snake, according to their study published in the journal Scientific Reports. They found 27...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been posting an account of his last few meetings with officials, users, and students from his Singapore visit. Tim Cook in Singapore (Source: Apple) Tim Cook began the week in Vietnam, then spent Wednesday in Indonesia, and rounded out the week with two last days in Singapore. While Apple does not release Cook's schedule, it appears that his tour has concluded, and he's posted a last few photos and videos from it. Cook's last evening in Singapore consisted of...
The CEO of Google’s AI division DeepMind Demis Hassabis reportedly the company was likely to spend north of $100 billion developing artificial intelligence technology.
TikTok's chief executive said on Wednesday the social media company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban its popular short video app used by 170 million Americans. Rest assured - we aren't going anywhere, CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a video posted moments after Biden signed the bill that gives China-based ByteDance 270 days to divest TikTok's U.S. assets or face a ban. The facts and the Constitution are on our side...
In their study, the DeepMind researchers investigated how many-shot ICL affects the performance of LLMs in downstream tasks.
WWE fans can breathe a sigh of relief as Finn Balor, a former Universal Champion and a significant name in the wrestling world, has announced his decision
Benzinga looks at why one investment expert currently does not recommend investing in Bitcoin for the average long-term portfolio.
BATON ROUGE - One person died and another was injured in separate incidents Saturday morning, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.An unidentified person was found dead near 5201 Longfellow Drive around 3:15 a.m. According to a police spokesperson, it is undetermined if this injury was the result of a shooting or a stabbing.At 6:45, a shooting took place at the 4900 block of Broadway Street. The victim was hospitalized and treated for non-life threatening injuries.No other information...
French photographer Réhahn has spent more than ten years meticulously documenting the stories, traditions, music, and heritage crafts of all 54 officially recognized ethnic groups residing within its borders. Precious