As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain?

By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused.

Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully cultivate talent.

Here's your midday brief for Wednesday, October 22nd.

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

A White House official said Paul Engrazia was no longer the nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Republican senators had said Ingraziah would not have their support, and it became clear he had no path to confirmation after a report that he made racist and anti-Semitic comments in a text

chain. A lawyer for Ingrosia said that the text could have been falsified or manipulated,

or be lacking context. Netflix shares fell today after the streaming giant's latest results. Net income rose nearly

8% to $2.5 billion, falling short of the company's expected $2.98 billion profit. Netflix

set a tax dispute in Brazil hurt its operating margin. The company recorded its best-ever quarter

for ad sales and is on track to more than double revenue from that business this year.

But revenue growth of 17% in the quarter fell just short of its own expectations.

And we're exclusively reporting conservative activist Robbie Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Google,

alleging that its AI tools falsely linked him to

sexual assault claims and a prominent white nationalist. Starbucks suit seeks more than $15 million

in damages. A Google spokesman said inaccurate information is a well-known issue for the data

systems behind chatbots and many of Starbucks claims related to inaccuracies Google addressed

in 2023. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating

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