The new appointment comes amid Airbnb's massive app redesign, which added catering and personal training.
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Airbnb
has tapped Ahmad Al-Dahle, former head of generative artificial intelligence at Meta Platforms
, as its new technology chief, CEO Brian Chesky announced on Wednesday.
“With Ahmad, we are really, really excited because we have an opportunity to do AI right for travel, to do AI right for e-commerce,” Chesky told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety concerns.
In the fight for top AI talent, Meta just reportedly snagged a win, poaching three OpenAI researchers despite rival Sam Altman's…
Shengjia Zhao will work directly with Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI and now Meta's chief AI officer.
OpenAI has hired Airbnb’s former European lead Emmanuel Marill as its first EMEA managing director.
"A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven't yet left will leave," Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann Lecun said.
Zuckerberg is tapping a rising AI power broker after its recent Llama 4 flop and ongoing AI talent departures.
