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Twitter strikes 12 video partnerships
MUMBAI: A day after striking a deal with Bloomberg to stream news 24/7, Twitter has disclosed video partnership arrangements with 11 more content providers in the arenas of sports, news and entertainment.
Three entertainment channels involved are — IMG fashion, Live Nation and Propagate. Apart from Bloomberg, news partners will be — Buzzfeed, Cheddar and The Verge. Sports coverage will be provided by PGA Tour, MLBAM, The Players’ Tribune and Stadium.
Starting later in May, for the first time, WNBA will live-stream a weekly regular-season game on Twitter (20 total per season) during the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons. Twitter will deliver live action of the best in women’s basketball and the best in fan conversation about each game — on a single screen.
In addition, to weekly live MLB games, a new weekly MLB programme will live-stream only on Twitter. A new, original, fully programmed, 24/7 linear experience will stream live on Twitter soon.
The Players’ Tribune: #Verified, a modern forum for athletes to connect directly with fans, will be a live show, only on Twitter. The series will debut in the coming months, and will feature regular interviews with some of the most popular players across sports, including A.J. Green, Karl-Anthony Towns and Richard Sherman.
Circuit Breaker: The Verge’s Gadget Show is a weekly live programme that will review new gadgets everyone wants. MorningFeed, a brand new morning news and current events show broadcast live on Twitter by BuzzFeed, will reach an audience that wakes up hungry for the latest in “fire Tweets.”
Cheddar’s hour-long Opening Bell will stream live daily at 9am ET from the New York Stock Exchange. This expands on Cheddar’s successful Closing Bellshow at 3pm ET, which has aired on Twitter since last October.
IMG Fashion will bring its premium designer and brand relationships to a live content programme consisting of exclusive runway shows and behind-the-scenes Fashion Week content for Twitter users, live, from New York, Milan, Paris, London and beyond in September 2017.
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OpenAI hires top AI researcher Ruoming Pang from Meta
Former Meta and Apple executive joins ChatGPT maker after months of talks
SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI has hired prominent artificial-intelligence researcher Ruoming Pang from Meta, underlining the intensifying contest among big tech firms for elite AI talent.
According to The Information, which cited an OpenAI spokesperson, Pang joined the ChatGPT maker last week after leaving Meta. At Meta, he oversaw AI infrastructure at the Superintelligence Labs, the unit tasked with building next-generation advanced models.
Pang had joined Meta only around seven months ago from Apple, where he worked on artificial-intelligence initiatives. Bloomberg has reported that his compensation package at Meta was valued at more than $200 million over several years, highlighting how aggressively firms are paying to secure top researchers.
OpenAI reportedly pursued Pang for months before finalising the hire. The move comes amid a fierce recruitment drive across Silicon Valley as companies race to dominate the next phase of AI development. Multi-million-dollar pay packages, equity incentives and senior leadership roles have become routine weapons in the fight for specialists capable of building large-scale AI systems.
As generative AI adoption accelerates and model training demands ever-greater computing power, infrastructure expertise has become a prized asset. Pang’s experience in running large AI platforms is expected to strengthen OpenAI’s ability to scale its models and expand commercial offerings.
