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Twitter promotes Sarah Personette to chief customer officer
Mumbai: Twitter Inc has announced the promotion of Sarah Personette to chief customer officer, effective 1 August. The current VP of global client solutions, Personette, succeeds customers lead Matt Derella who moved on from the company after nine years.
Personette leads Twitter’s relationships with top marketers and ad agencies. In her new role, she will be at the helm of the company’s global ad sales, global content partnerships, and revenue operations, according to a Reuters report.
Personette joined Twitter in October 2018. Before that, she spent over three years as VP of the global business marketing team at Facebook.
Personette’s appointment comes as Twitter aims to double its annual revenue by 2023 and expand its advertising avenues to better compete with digital ad giants including Facebook Inc.
She will report directly to CEO Jack Dorsey and oversee Twitter’s ’emerging businesses’, including MoPub, an advertising technology product that helps app developers and mobile publishers earn ad revenue, the company said.
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OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit ahead of trial
Company calls claims “baseless” and accuses Musk of trying to disrupt a rival.
MUMBAI: When the stakes are measured in billions and egos are involved, even Silicon Valley titans can turn a courtroom into a battlefield. OpenAI has issued a sharp public response to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit, accusing the billionaire of filing the case to harass a competitor rather than address genuine concerns. In a strongly worded statement shared on its official X account, OpenAI described Musk’s allegations as “baseless” and suggested the lawsuit is an attempt to disrupt the company as the case heads toward trial later this month in Oakland, California.
The response comes after Musk’s legal team recently amended the complaint, proposing that any damages potentially exceeding $150 billion should go to OpenAI’s nonprofit entity rather than to Musk personally. OpenAI questioned the timing and motive behind this change, calling it a late-stage attempt to “pretend to change his tune” on the nonprofit structure.
The company further labelled the lawsuit a “harassment campaign”, arguing that Musk’s actions are driven by personal rivalry, ego, and a desire for greater control and financial upside.
At the heart of the dispute is Musk’s claim that OpenAI has abandoned its original nonprofit mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. A co-founder who left in 2018, Musk is seeking governance changes, including the removal of CEO Sam Altman from the nonprofit board, and the return of certain financial gains linked to Altman and President Greg Brockman.
OpenAI has firmly rejected these allegations, maintaining that its current hybrid structure, a public-benefit corporation overseen by a nonprofit parent remains true to its long-term goals. The company has also previously accused Musk of anti-competitive behaviour aimed at weakening its leadership.
As the case prepares for a jury trial, this public exchange highlights the deepening rift between two of the most influential figures in the AI revolution and raises broader questions about governance, mission, and power in the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence.
In the high-stakes game of AI, it seems the real drama isn’t just inside the models, it’s playing out in courtrooms too.
