Apple has made a major change to its AI leadership. The company hired Amar Subramanya, a former Google and Microsoft AI executive, as its new VP of AI. Longtime AI chief John Giannandrea will retire next year.
Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, is departing the company. His exit follows internal struggles to adapt Siri for Apple Intelligence, with leadership now shifting to Craig Federighi and new hire Amar Subramanya.
Omnicom is now the world’s largest ad holding company after closing its $9 billion acquisition of Interpublic Group. CEO John Wren says the new scale and its AI platform will create “unmatchable” commercial terms for clients, even as the deal brings over $750 million in cost savings and 4,000 job cu
Nvidia is making a massive strategic move into the chip design software space. The company announced a $2 billion stake in Synopsys as part of a new partnership to integrate Nvidia’s computing power into engineering solutions.
For nearly six years, CDTO Jaime Montemayor has been rebuilding General Mills’ tech foundation. Now, with clean data and global engineering teams, the company is automating supply chains and reinventing marketing with AI.
Michael Burry, the investor famous from *The Big Short*, is taking aim at Tesla. He calls the company “ridiculously overvalued” and criticizes its shifting narrative from EVs to robots.
AMD has stealthily introduced a new workstation graphics card and listed two unannounced AI GPUs. The W7900D appears designed specifically for the Chinese market to bypass export restrictions, while the R9600D and R9700S hint at upcoming RDNA 4 architecture.
Joe Braidwood built Yara AI as a clinically-inspired mental health platform, then shut it down over safety concerns. He says AI becomes “dangerous, not just inadequate” when truly vulnerable people reach out. The decision highlights growing worries about AI’s role in mental health care.
Gabriel Petersson dropped out of high school in 2019 and taught himself machine learning using ChatGPT. He now works as a research scientist at OpenAI on the Sora video generation team, proving credentials aren’t everything in tech.
Spanish startup Anyformat has raised €3.3 million in Seed funding to expand its generative AI document processing tools. The company aims to create Europe’s new document infrastructure with human-level precision and machine speed. This comes amid limited but strategic funding activity in Europe’s do
