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Filings: Omnicom CEO John Wren received compensation of $69.9M in 2025, nearly 2x greater than the combined CEO compensation at six other ad holding companies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/omnicoms-j

Omnicom’s John Wren Made More Than Double All Other Advertising Holdco CEOs Combined in 2025
Omnicom CEO John Wren earned nearly $70 million in 2025—more than twice the combined pay of every other major advertising holdco CEO, with Publicis’ Arthur Sadoun trailing as the next-highest earner at $9.4 million.

Spotify closes up 13% after announcing new features and 2030 guidance, forecasting a compound annual growth rate in the mid-teens and gross margins of 35%-40% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/spotify-spot-stock-guidance-investor-day-ai.ht…

Spotify soars 13% after announcing AI music deal with UMG, guidance
Spotify, which is holding its first investor day in four years, is now under the direction of co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström.

I'm less worried about "can AI take my job" and more worried "Do CEOs think AI can do my job"

Note: the White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; major tech CEOs were invited to attend (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/white-house-postpones-ai-eo-signing

Scoop: White House postpones AI EO signing ceremony
It's another setback for an effort that has been stalled by internal disagreements.

Trump to AI-tech CEOs:
1: You need to come kiss the ring.
2: We need to renegotiate my cut.
#corruption #business #AI #WhiteHouse #hardball

Zulip is a really cool piece of software and very useful to us as a company chat tool.
Reading these press releases is always a thrill ride nowadays. And this one doesn't disappoint! Unlike CEOs that beat around the bush to eventually reveal layoffs, this one here drops the bombshell that the project leaders/founders are joining Anthropic.
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Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-amodei-google-hassabis-us-…

CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7
Tech leaders and heads of state, including President Donald Trump, joined a meeting about AI standards at the G7 Summit.

PEN America's co-CEOs defend publishing an article critical of cultural boycotts, like those affecting Jewish authors, that led the group's president to resign (Malia Mendez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/arts/pen-america-israel-gaza-re…

PEN America Defends Israel Article That Led to President’s Resignation
A co-chief executive of the free expression group said a recent article about Israeli and Jewish writers had been “critical” to pursue.

A profile of David Senra, whose popular Founders podcast attracts billionaire CEOs and generates millions of dollars annually through a flat ad partnership rate (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/05/how-dav

How David Senra built the podcast the world’s most powerful CEOs can’t stop listening to
“Founders” counts Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell as fans—and its “unmanageable” creator turned down $50 million so he could build a media empire his way.

Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have published detailed memos in recent weeks, basically agreeing on the need for a US-led AI regulatory framework (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/ai-regulations-openai-anthropic-google

Behind the Curtain: AI godfathers converge on regulations
The CEOs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP.