U.S.A.I.D. Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems. Credit...Mark Lennihan/Associated Press ...

Rep. Robert Garcia from California questions witnesses during a hearing in front of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in Washington, D.C. on March 26, 2025. (Photo by Nathan Posner ...

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as the fate of its flagship TV program Sesame Street remains in limbo. The nonprofit is still looking for a new TV or streaming home for Sesame Street, after Warner Bros. Discovery opted not to ...

The non-profit behind the iconic children's TV show Sesame Street informed staff of its plan to "downsize significantly" and change its benefits and bonus program, shortly after more than 200 ...

Sesame Workshop, producer of the long-running children’s show Sesame Street, announced layoffs this week. “Amid the changing media and funding landscape, we have made the difficult decision to reduce ...

AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to ...

OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, anticipates $4 billion in annual revenue, with AI agents priced up to $20,000 ... Disney Entertainment Networks. The Wall Street Journal says the move is part of ...

Learn More AI agents have safety and reliability problems. Although agents would allow enterprises to automate more steps in their workflows, they can take unintended actions while executing a ...

Google Colab, Google’s cloud-based notebook tool for coding, data science, and AI, is gaining a new “AI agent” tool, Data Science Agent, to help Colab users quickly clean data, visualize ...

The Department of Homeland Security said it would no longer honor a bargaining agreement with the union representing airport-security agents, the latest Trump administration move aiming to weaken ...