Jamie Dimon says it’s only ‘people in the middle’ complaining a lot about RTO
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says it’s only “people in the middle who complain a lot about” returning to the office. Jamie Dimon says when it comes to RTO pushback, the usual culprits are “the people in the middle.” The JPMorgan Chase CEO talked about the bank’s return-to-office mandate in a recent interview at the…
Amazon VP who oversaw flagship AI product is leaving after a big shake-up
An AWS office The VP in charge of Amazon’s flagship AI product Bedrock is stepping down a year after joining the company. Baskar Sridharan, Amazon Web Services’s VP of AI/ML services and Data Services & Infrastructure, plans to leave following a recent reorganization that consolidated several teams within the cloud business, according to people familiar…
Elon Musk’s X is having outage issues
“The Video Tab has arrived. LFG,” X CEO Linda Yaccarino said in a post on the platform on Sunday. Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, is experiencing some issues this morning. Many users are reporting issues accessing the service at various points on Monday. In a post, Musk said the site was being targeted…
Rolling job cuts by Broadcom have slashed VMware’s workforce roughly in half
Broadcom CEO Hock E. Tan speaks at an event held by President Donald Trump. Broadcom’s aggressive cost-cutting strategy has at least halved VMware’s workforce while pleasing Wall Street analysts. The chip giant closed one of the biggest tech deals ever when it acquired cloud software provider VMware in late 2023. Since closing the acquisition, Broadcom…
TikTok Shop agencies and brands are crossing the border into Mexico with the app’s US future in limbo
TikTok’s future may be up in the air in the US, but it’s ramping up in other parts of the world. The company officially launched its e-commerce product, Shop, in Mexico in February after testing it in the country. The platform is still getting off the ground there, but it’s attracting local sellers like beauty…
China’s newest AI model Manus is dividing opinion over DeepSeek comparisons. Here’s what to know.
The creators of Manus say it can perform tasks from start to finish with little human input. Chinese AI researchers say they’ve created the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent — but others aren’t convinced that its capabilities make it another “DeepSeek moment.” The agent, called Manus, launched last week and quickly became a hot…
Millie Bobby Brown was reportedly paid $10 million for a Netflix movie. She says leaking salary contracts puts child stars in ‘a dangerous situation.’
Millie Bobby Brown is known for playing Eleven in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.” Millie Bobby Brown says she’s learned from her experience as a child actor that salary contracts should be protected rather than leaked because they endanger young actors. Brown, who rose to prominence playing Eleven on Netflix’s wildly popular sci-fi series “Stranger…
How Meghan Trainor spends her 5 to 9 — from couples therapy to nerding out about protein
Meghan Trainor is so hilariously frank as we chat about her daily routines that I can’t tell if she’s being genuine when she says Arm and Hammer Power Sheets Laundry Detergent has changed her life. Speaking to B-17 as part of her advertising campaign for the product, the 31-year-old multi-platinum singer has a twinkle in…
How pharmaceutical companies are training their workers on AI
Johnson & Johnson is embracing the concept of a bilingual employee — but not in the classic sense. For the pharmaceutical company, literacy is needed in specialized and core job skills, including research, supply chain, and finance. Then there’s fluency in AI technology. “There are so many ways we’ve been using AI,” said Jim Swanson,…
