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For years, Gary Marcus has been the most persistent skeptic in artificial intelligence, a cognitive scientist and NYU professor emeritus who has repeatedly warned that the hy...

Kraft Heinz’s Hard Lesson: How Private Equity’s Cost-Cutting Playbook Hollowed Out an American Food Giant

When Carlos Abrams-Rivera took the helm as CEO of Kraft Heinz in 2023, he inherited a company that had been stripped to the bone. The food conglomerate — born from the 2015 m...

The Wilderness Years: A New Book Reveals How Steve Jobs’s Exile From Apple Forged the Visionary Who Would Save It

For more than a decade, the story of Steve Jobs has been told primarily through the lens of his triumphant return to Apple in 1997 and the extraordinary run of products—iMac,...

From Bankruptcy to Biscuits and Beyond: How Red Lobster’s New CEO Is Betting Big on a Radical Reinvention

Less than a year ago, Red Lobster was a cautionary tale of corporate mismanagement — a once-beloved seafood chain drowning in debt, shuttered locations, and the lingering ste...

WPP’s $500 Million Bet on Survival: Inside the Advertising Giant’s Radical Plan to Reinvent Itself by 2027

The world's largest advertising holding company is making its most aggressive restructuring bet in years. WPP, the London-based conglomerate that controls agencies including...

Apple’s Week of Reveals: Tim Cook Teases a Product Blitz That Could Reshape the Mac and iPad Lineup

Apple Inc. is gearing up for what may be one of its most aggressive product-announcement stretches in recent memory. On Sunday, CEO Tim Cook took to social media to confirm t...

Uber Employees Built an AI Clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to Rehearse Presentations — And It’s Brutally Honest

At most companies, preparing for a high-stakes presentation to the chief executive involves rehearsing in front of colleagues, refining slide decks, and hoping for the best....

The CEO Who Told the Truth: Why One Tech Leader Is Warning That AI ‘Hates’ Humanity — and What It Means for the Industry

When a technology chief executive publicly declares that artificial intelligence systems harbor something resembling hatred toward human beings, the statement tends to cut th...

OpenAI’s Legal Offensive Against Elon Musk’s xAI Hits a Wall: What the Dismissed Lawsuit Means for AI’s Talent Wars

A federal judge has dismissed OpenAI's lawsuit against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, dealing a significant blow to one of the most closely watched legal ba...

The Ghost in the Machine: How Steve Jobs’s Creative Philosophy Still Shapes Apple Two Decades After His Death

More than a decade after Steve Jobs's death in 2011, the co-founder's creative instincts continue to exert a gravitational pull on Apple's leadership. In a revealing new acco...

Jamie Dimon Sounds the Alarm Again: Why Wall Street’s Most Powerful Banker Sees Banks ‘Doing Dumb Things’ Before the Next Crisis

Jamie Dimon has never been one to mince words. The JPMorgan Chase chief executive, who steered the largest U.S. bank through the 2008 financial crisis with fewer scars than m...

Pavel Durov Under Criminal Investigation in Russia: The Telegram Founder Now Faces Legal Pressure From Both East and West

Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder and chief executive of the encrypted messaging platform Telegram, is now reportedly the subject of a criminal investigation in Russia — a...

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Walks a Political Tightrope as Hollywood Bows to the Trump Era

When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos sat down for a wide-ranging interview this month, he offered a window into how the most powerful streaming company in the world is managing i...

The White House vs. Hollywood: How Trump’s Unprecedented Demands on Netflix Signal a New Era of Political Pressure on Big Media

When the Trump administration demanded that Netflix install former National Security Advisor Susan Rice back onto its board of directors, it marked what media executives and...

Microsoft Taps Instacart’s Asha Sharma to Lead Xbox, Signaling a New Era for Gaming’s Biggest Brand

Microsoft has named Asha Sharma, the former chief operating officer of Instacart, as the new head of its Xbox division, replacing Phil Spencer, who led the gaming unit for ov...

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