News / #leadership Tag Leadership 28 articles archived under #leadership · RSS Sign in to follow The Information — AI news-outlet 12d ago OpenAI Hires Top Trump AI Official to Work on National Security OpenAI is continuing to fill out its leadership bench with former Trump administration officials. Thomas Lind, who previously led AI policy at the Office of the National Cyber Director, joined OpenAI this week, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed. ONCD is a key office within the… 27 The Information — AI news-outlet 16d ago Exclusive: Instinct Hires Coatue’s Schwerin as Chief Business Officer Instinct, Silicon Valley’s hot AI assistant of the moment, is hiring Ben Schwerin, an investor at Coatue Management, as its first chief business officer. In Schwerin, the year-old company—which Monday said it raised $1 billion at a $10-billion valuation—is getting a hot consumer… 27 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers. 33 The Information — AI news-outlet 23d ago Alibaba Appoints New Head of Qwen LLM Team Alibaba Group has appointed Dayiheng Liu, one of its senior AI researchers, as the head of its Qwen large language models, according to two employees with knowledge of the matter. Liu’s appointment has brought more clarity to the Qwen team’s leadership after multiple rounds of… 10 The Information — AI news-outlet 27d ago Exclusive: OpenAI Hires Global Sales Chief From SpaceX and Two Senior Snowflake Salespeople OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX’s Cursor unit as its new global sales chief, reporting to recently hired Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic, the AI firm said Thursday. In addition, two veteran sales executives from Snowflake, including a senior vice president who… 29 The Information — AI news-outlet 28d ago Anthropic to Open Singapore Office, Hires Regional Head from OpenAI Anthropic is opening its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore to drive enterprise adoption of Claude, the company said on Wednesday. Anthropic plans to work with startups, large enterprises and the public sector in Singapore, where Claude usage per capita is among the highest… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Polymarket Appoints First CFO Polymarket appointed former Amazon executive Warren Jenson as its first chief financial officer as the prediction markets startup looks to grow in the U.S. Polymarket said Jenson will set Polymarket’s financial and capital strategy as it scales up its Commodity Futures Trading… 6 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago OpenAI Appoints White House AI Advisor to Nonprofit Board OpenAI announced on Wednesday that Paul Christiano, a senior technical advisor at the U.S. Commerce Department’s AI center, would be joining the board of the OpenAI Foundation, the charity that has a 26% stake in the company. Christiano will also be a non-voting observer on the… 17 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago OpenAI Appoints White House AI Advisor to Nonprofit Board OpenAI announced on Wednesday that Paul Christiano, a senior technical advisor at the U.S. Commerce Department’s AI center, would be joining the board of the OpenAI Foundation, the charity that has a 26% stake in the company. Christiano will also be a non-voting observer on the… 23 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Apple Launches Foldable iPhone Duo Apple unveiled a much anticipated foldable iPhone at its first product launch featuring brand-new Chief Executive John Ternus. The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable smartphone—a product category that competitors have been selling for years, but has remained mostly a smaller,… 9 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Apple Launches Foldable iPhone Duo Apple unveiled a much anticipated foldable iPhone at its first product launch featuring brand-new Chief Executive John Ternus. The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable smartphone—a product category that competitors have been selling for years, but has remained mostly a smaller,… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago ElevenLabs Hires CFO, Eyes 2028 IPO While all eyes are on Anthropic’s forthcoming IPO prospectus, set to drop in the coming weeks, other fast-growing AI startups are laying the groundwork for their own public offerings. The latest is AI voice startup ElevenLabs , which has hired a chief financial officer as it… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Alignment-Free Text-Audiobox for Voice Dubbing and Full-Duplex Dialogue Synthesis arXiv:2609.03992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Alignment-Free Text-Audiobox (Text-AB), a unified framework for high-quality voice dubbing and full-duplex dialogue synthesis. Building on a Diffusion Transformer trained with a flow-matching objective, Text-AB departs… 7 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago The Two New Executives Steering KKR’s $10 Billion AI Infrastructure Bet KKR’s new $10 billion AI venture, Helix Digital Infrastructure, has made its first two senior hires under CEO Adam Selipsky, the former Amazon Web Services chief, a person with knowledge of the moves said. The venture, which counts Nvidia among its backers, has tapped Jonathan… 34 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago With Tim Cook’s Last Day, Changes Are Happening at Apple After 15 years leading Apple, Tim Cook is stepping down as chief executive on Monday. And while he is committed to a smooth transition and continuity to the tenure of John Ternus—senior vice president of hardware engineering, who takes over on Tuesday—changes are already… 38 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Exclusive: Gibson Dunn Hires Paul Weiss Tech Lawyer Ashtor Gibson Dunn, a Los Angeles-headquartered law firm well-known for its litigation practice, has hired tech lawyer Jonathan Ashtor from New York law firm Paul Weiss, according to a release reviewed by The Information. The hire is the latest in a series of senior moves among the… 36 The Information — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Exclusive: UBS Hires JP Morgan Banker Su to Ramp Up AI Banking Efforts UBS is hiring Nicole Su from JPMorgan to lead its AI investment banking efforts, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information. Su, most recently an executive director at JPMorgan, will join the bank later this month as its head of emerging AI technology banking in… 17 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 2mo ago OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson. 24 OpenAI official-blog 2mo ago OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI. 9 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 2mo ago Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757 Points: 301 # Comments: 182 15 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 2mo ago Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa... https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders... https://www.discoveryloop.com/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 ,… 28 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 2mo ago Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-08-02/News_and_notes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143414 Points: 206 # Comments: 181 21 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market. 12 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short "Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.” 19 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3mo ago Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/ford-has-been-rehiring-quality-inspectors-after-ai-fell-short Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446 Points: 397 # Comments: 176 4 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers as a share of total new hires have actually increased, according to SignalFire data. 32 The Information — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Google DeepMind Hires Staff, Licenses Technology from Contextual AI Google DeepMind agreed to pay between $80 million and $90 million to hire employees from AI agent startup Contextual AI and to license its technology, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Douwe Kiela, Contextual’s cofounder and CEO, is expected to join DeepMind… 16 The Information — AI news-outlet 5mo ago Newmark Data Center Advisor Brent Mayo Departs for DigitalBridge Brent Mayo, head of data center capital markets at advisory firm Newmark, has left the firm and told people he is joining investment firm DigitalBridge, according to two people with knowledge of the move. At Newmark, which specialized in commercial real estate, Mayo was a part… 26
