Word on the street is that the company is TikTok.
Neither OpenAI nor Kotick immediately responded to Gizmodos requests for comment.
The former Activision Blizzard chief has reportedly already reached out to ByteDance executive chair Zhang Yiming about selling TikTok.
Kotick may have gotten a golden parachute when he left Activision Blizzard, but he did not leave a hero.Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Getty Images
TikTok did not immediately respond to Gizmodos request for comment.
Kotick would be an unusual choice to take over TikToks reins.
Activision Blizzard denied the allegations in the states lawsuit andsettled with the state for $54 millionin 2023.
In the settlement agreement, Activision Blizzard did not admit to any wrongdoing.
The CRD alsofiled an amended complaintthat withdrew the claims of sex-based harassment at the company.
The day Kotick left, former employees decided to spill what it was like working under him.
Others were more blunt.
Bobbys decisions made our games worse.
The word Disgraced was also removed from the headline.
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