• Microsoft hires Inflection founders to run new consumer AI division

    Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman and Karen Simonyan, co-founders of high-profile AI startup Inflection AI, and several of their colleagues as the Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman and Karen Simonyan, co-founders of high-profile AI startup Inflection AI.

  • Tories have overseen nuclear 'renaissance' claims Sunak - despite minister saying UK is 'running to catch up'

    Rishi Sunak has claimed his party has overseen a "renaissance" in the nuclear industry - just hours after one of his ministers suggested plans for the sector should have been laid out "years ago". The prime minister said the Conservatives supported nuclear power and the UK's nuclear deterrent as he visited the home of the UK's nuclear submarine fleet, Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. The site will get £20m of public money and £180m a year over the next decade in a move the government hopes will...

  • UK live music promoters Communion Presents and FKP Scorpio UK merge to form Communion ONE

    Communion ONE will be led by a board including managing directors Daniel Ealam, Mazin Tappuni and Scott O’Neill Source

  • America’s Gen Z Is Embracing UK Electronic Music

    (Hypebot) — As Gen Zers across America discover drum and bass, the question remains if other U.K. subgenres will follow this same trajectory, first pioneered by dubstep. By Sarah Kloboves and Melina Raglin For American Gen Zers, the term “drum and bass” is most likely new to their vocabulary. The sound? Well, chances are they heard it for

  • Lit Agents Alysia Thomas, Kelsey Roberts Exit Paradigm

    EXCLUSIVE: Paradigm and a pair of literary agents, Alysia Thomas and Kelsey Roberts, have parted ways, sources tell Deadline. Paradigm declined comment. Thomas has already made her exit, and we’re told this was entirely amicable. What prompted Roberts’ exit is unclear, but she’s still finishing up her time at the agency. A veteran studio executive […]

  • Primary Wave Music bolsters sync team with new hire and promotions

    Company hiredJulianne Wilson as Senior Director, Creative Sync, and promotes Peter Kurczaba and Derek Pierce to new roles Source

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    Diddy's Alleged 'Mule' Arrested on Drug Charges During Federal Agent Run-In

    Diddy's alleged "mule" -- as described in a recent lawsuit -- was arrested Monday while Diddy and his crew were stopped by federal law enforcement agents TMZ has confirmed. According to the affidavit, obtained by TMZ, 25-year-old Brendan Paul…

  • Empress Films expands with US, UK hires from Paramount, Minnow Films

    UK indie Empress Films has hired Eben Davidson and Matthew Clifton as the company expands into both the US and scripted programming after striking a first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio.

  • Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder to lead new AI division

    British tech pioneer Mustafa Suleyman will be chief executive of organisation focusing on consumer products and researchProfile: Mustafa SuleymanMicrosoft has appointed the co-founder of the British artificial intelligence lab DeepMind as the head of a new AI division.Mustafa Suleyman, 39, co-founded DeepMind with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg in 2010 and the company went on to be bought by Google for £400m in 2014. It now forms the core of Google’s AI efforts after merging with another unit to...

  • Microsoft hires DeepMind cofounder to lead its new consumer AI division

    Microsoft now has a lone leader overseeing consumer AI for the first time. DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman is joining the company from rival Inflection AI. Suleyman will try to push the consumer-facing Copilot assistant into the future, preparing for what may be a long battle with Google for artificial intelligence supremacy among Silicon Valley’s Big Five companies. Suleyman’s official title will be executive vice president and CEO of a new division called Microsoft AI, reporting directly...

  • Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-Founder Suleyman to Run Consumer AI

    Microsoft Corp. has named Mustafa Suleyman head of its consumer artificial

  • ‘Sneaky’ fees add up to 25% to UK music ticket prices, says Which?

    Consumer body calls for a crackdown on ‘bewildering’ range of extra charges at big ticketing sitesLive music fans are losing out because of an array of “sneaky” fees that can add up to 25% to the cost of concert and festival tickets, research from the consumer body Which? has found.With booking open for big summer gigs, the lobby group has called for a crackdown on the “bewildering” range of extra charges that some of the UK’s biggest ticketing websites impose. Continue reading