Versant is the cable TV company Comcast didn't want to own. Here's what CEO Mark Lazarus wants to do with it.

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Versant Media is a spin-off from Comcast, made up of cable TV networks like CNBC and MSNBC - now called MS Now.

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Paramount hires a former Google exec as its head of consumer AI. Read the memo about its tech ambitions.

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Former Google executive Barak Turovsky has joined Paramount Skydance.

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Kevin O'Leary: I've solved your data center problem

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Kevin "Mr. Wonderful" O'Leary is encountering vocal opposition to his plans for a huge data center in Utah.

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Amazon’s new Alexa feature generates entire podcast episodes using AI and licensed journalism from 200+ newsrooms

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  Amazon has launched a feature that uses artificial intelligence to generate entire podcast episodes on demand. Called Alexa Podcasts, the tool allows users to ask Alexa+ to create a podcast on any topic, and the system will research the subject, produce a structured overview, and deliver it as an audio episode narrated by two […]

Lowe's is betting on MrBeast to drive 'lipstick effect' sales

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MrBeast and Lowe's are teaming up.

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Soderbergh used Meta’s AI in his Lennon documentary. Critics hated it. He says that’s the point.

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Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio interview that Lennon and Yoko Ono gave to a San Francisco KFRC radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments on December 8, 1980, hours before Lennon was shot and killed, […]

The hottest party in NYC this week was the premiere of a new YouTube show from the 'Subway Takes' creator

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Kareem Rahma
Kareem Rahma is the creator and host of "Keep the Meter Running."

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Paramount's tech chief is leaving after 7 years. Read his final memo to employees.

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Paramount Skydance tech chief Phil Wiser told his colleagues that he's stepping down.

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2 Yale students raised $5 million to help supercharge your career. Read their networking startup's pitch deck.

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Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow
Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow cofounded Series.

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Paramount+ is exploring adding podcasts, following Netflix's lead

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Paramount is interested in adding video podcasts under CEO David Ellison.

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