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PRH Develops Generative AI Tool for Employees
Further to our reporting last fall on how publishing teams are using generative AI tools for their day-to-day work, and Penguin Random House CEO Nihar Malaviya’s assertion that the company would embrace AI technology, earlier this year PRH introduced its own internal AI application, called PRH ChatGPT. In a statement, the company said, “PRH ChatGPT was launched as a way for our employees to safely experiment with generative AI during their daily work—to learn more about how the technology works and identify potential opportunities to enhance creativity and productivity.” The company made the program available to all employees in the […]
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At Simon & Schuster, Craig Mandeville, vice president, general manager, business office is retiring on July 13, exactly 37 years since he joined the company.
Obituary: Richard Parks
Literary agent Richard Parks, 83, died of complications from dementia on April 23. Parks was the founder of The Richard Parks Agency and previously worked at Curtis Brown.
Forthcoming: H.R. McMaster’s White House Memoir
Harper will publish AT WAR WITH OURSELVES by H.R. McMaster on August 27. The book chronicles the former national security advisor’s 13 months in the Trump administration, laying out, according to the publisher, “the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump’s presidency.”