AMC CEO Adam Aron & OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor 7/20/26

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CNBC

Investing, Business, Business News, News

4.2 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

After The Odyssey’s strong opening weekend at the box office, AMC CEO Adam Aron discusses the shifting entertainment landscape and AMC’s financial results this quarter. Aron also discusses audience appetite for films using AI tools and AI actors. AI is also on the table for the next interview, with OpenAI chairman and Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor. Taylor weighs in on the debate about tokenmaxxing, Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI, and what the future of data sovereignty might look like. He comments on Sam Altman’s public spat with Elon Musk, as well as the push to innovate both stateside and in China. Plus, CNBC’s Eamon Javers reports on the war in Iran, and findings of cyclospora in Taylor Farms lettuce turned out to be a false positive. Eamon Javers - 05:04 Adam Aron - 17:33 Bret Taylor - 39:08 In this episode: Adam Aron, @CEOAdam Bret Taylor, @btaylor Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Eamon Javers, @eamonjavers Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.1	Today on SquakPod.
0:09.8	Where's the source of the potential parasite in lettuce?
0:12.8	A false positive deepens the mystery.
0:15.5	Okay, so we basically stopped eating salad for the past couple of days here now.
0:19.0	So you're fasting it.
0:21.6	Escalation in Iran. U.S. military strikes continue. Are Amen Javers with the latest.
0:27.4	Iranian officials said this weekend, they no longer consider the memorandum of understanding
0:32.6	between the United States and Iran to be valid. And that leaves open the question, guys, of how this war can end.
0:39.7	A massive weekend at the box office, Odyssey's $124 million opening, AMC CEO, Adam Aaron.
0:47.5	People love to go to the movie theaters.
0:50.2	He's not worried about AI upending showbiz.
0:53.5	If I know that Tom Cruise didn't actually do the stunt,
0:58.0	Tom Cruise will always do the stunt.
1:01.1	I know.
1:01.5	We do our own stunts here.
1:04.0	Plus, Open AI chairman and founder of Sierra, Brett Taylor,
1:07.6	on big technology questions.
1:09.7	Where does data sovereignty begin and end?
1:12.7	I think it's very important that CEOs understand, you know,
1:15.4	what's mine is mine and what is the AI models is theirs.
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