Paramount Skydance just hired a head of consumer AI. Read the memo to staffers about the move as David Ellison's company leans into AI.

Phil Wiser helped guide AI adoption at the media firm. His departure comes less than a month after Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.

Barak Turovsky will be tasked with bringing AI to all parts of the company, and to consumer applications via its streaming platforms.

Absent something transformative, neither party is positioned to grow to a scale where they would catch up to the leading streamers,” Delrahim said.

A majority of Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted in support of selling the entire business to Paramount.

Paramount has hired former Google, Cisco and General Motors executive Barak Turovsky to serve as its executive vice president of consumer AI. In his new role, Turovsky will be responsible for growing the media giant's AI and machine learning teams and exploring ways to leverage AI to improve personalization,

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Along with Paramount+, Dutton Ranch is also available to watch on Paramount Network.

Though Paramount's pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery is on track to close by the third quarter, or Sept. 30, the company is reportedly hoping to get the $110 billion deal over the finish line even sooner.