AMZN
New CEO, same robot dogs
Boston Dynamics has tapped Rohit Prasad as its new CEO. Prasad is an Amazon executive, so this is less “random outside hire” and more “AI brain gets handed the robot keys.”
Why you should care
If you own Amazon, this is a small but interesting talent story. Prasad has been one of the people shaping Amazon’s AI push, and now he’s heading to a robotics company that’s basically the internet’s favorite source of backflips, parkour, and mildly unsettling mechanical swagger.
Big picture
The move doesn’t scream immediate financial fireworks for AMZN, but it does underline how prized AI and robotics leadership has become. In other words: the talent war is so hot that even the CEOs are getting traded like it’s the deadline day in the NBA.