How EY’s Simon Brown is preparing the global company for the agentic AI revolution

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As AI evolves from simple automation to sophisticated autonomous agents, HR executives face one of the most significant workforce transformations in modern history. The challenge isn’t just understanding the technology — it’s navigating culture change, skills development and workforce planning when AI capabilities double every six months.

Simon Brown, EY’s global learning and development leader, has spent nearly 2 years helping the firm’s 400,000 employees prepare for an AI-driven future. With his past experience as chief learning officer at Novartis and his work with Microsoft, Brown offers critical insights on positioning organizations for success in an autonomous AI world.

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Future of TV Briefing: Is Meta’s Vibes the future of TikTok?

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how the AI-generated content feed of Meta’s Vibes could fill the doomscrolling void if TikTok users abandon the U.S. version of the app.

  • Vibescrolling
  • Fox’s John Fiedler on Fox One’s streaming playbook
  • Nexstar’s & Sinclair’s advertiser pushback, TikTok U.S.’s split business, Hollywood’s creator economy conundrum and more

Vibescrolling

On Thursday last week Meta launched Vibes, an AI-generated content feed that somehow doesn’t top the list of dystopia developments in 2025 but is certainly an honorable mention. Also on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to approve a deal that will create a U.S.-only version of TikTok. And that same day I started seeing videos in my TikTok feed of people asking if we’re going to leave TikTok and where are we going.

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