Elon Musk has given a long-form video interview with The Economist by its editor in chief Zanny Minton-Beddoes. His predictions, especially those on the growth of AI and its impact, are fascinating. His predictions include: · In five years, AI compute will exceed the sum of all human intelligence. · In ten years, we will have […]
Parks Associates and Plume have released research that details the shift in broadband competition in the US as providers need to deliver a superior customer experience based on reliability, proactive management, and personalisation. As gigabit speeds become more common, surpassing 25 per cent penetration acrss the US, broadband providers can no longer compete on speed […]
Net neutrality rules are stunting innovation, network investment and could prevent agentic AI from reaching its full potential in the UK according to Net Fatality, a report from Stephen Howard of Communications Chambers for Virgin Media O2. The rules, which require telecoms providers to treat all traffic equally, were originally intended to protect consumers. However, […]
Marketing is operating in an age of abundance. Today’s consumers face more content and choices than they have the attention or means to manage. AI agents are emerging as fundamental tools to help consumers cut through the noise and make decisions faster. Research by PHD in partnership with WARC reveals how quickly they are reshaping […]
Fetch.ai and RedSquid TV have announced what they say is “the world’s first operator-grade Agentic AI TV platform”, combining Fetch.ai’s agentic AI technology with RedSquid TV’s end-to-end television operating system . As part of the announcement, Humayun Sheikh, Founder and CEO of Fetch.ai and one of the earliest investors in DeepMind, has made a personal […]
More than half (53 per cent) of marketers are failing to use data insights to consistently drive campaign action, according to research from Adverity, the marketing data intelligence company. With the study exposing a stark gap between insight and action for marketers, data shows that 91 per cent of respondents take at least several days […]
Virgin Media has created its own AI robots to monitor its TV network in real-time and help keep viewers connected. These new AI robots watch TV services exactly as customers experience them and, using automated monitoring, continuously check channels for any degradation of service, including any issues with video and audio quality. If an issue is […]
Channel Factory, the contextual advertising company, has launched AI Slop Detection. The new capability gives brands a precise, tiered view of content quality, separating slop engineered for monetisation from the high-quality AI-assisted content that delivers audience value. The launch addresses what Channel Factory positions as a quality crisis, not a safety crisis. Generative AI has […]
BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international charity, and BBC Research & Development (BBC R&D) have worked with Ukrainian national broadcaster Suspilne Ukraine (Public) to launch a new ‘nutrition label’ for its content, ensuring audiences receive information they can trust in wartime. The Content Credentials standard introduced by C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authentication) is […]
BuyDRM, a provider of content security services and DRM solutions, has announced that Udio has selected BuyDRM’s KeyOS MultiKey Service to protect the streaming of AI-generated music and support the continued growth of its generative music platform. Udio is an AI-powered music creation platform. As its community and catalogue of user-generated music continue to expand, […]