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Cleeng CEO: “AI hype will settle down in 2025”

Gilles Domartini, CEO and founder of subscriber retention management specialist, Cleeng, has shared his 2025 industry predictions. Domartini believes that the hype surrounding AI hype will settle down this year, and become more centered around practical use cases. “Since the launch of ChatGPT, the M&E industry has been talking loudly about the potential of AI, […]

January 7, 2025

Friend MTS: “Piracy the biggest competitor”

Chris White, Chief Architect at Friend MTS, has shared some insights into the anti-piracy trends that are on the horizon, as well as looking a few years out. White recommends businesses to future-proof their operations as piracy risks are becoming their competitor. His predictions for 2025 and beyond are as follows: Security across social platforms […]

January 6, 2025

Samsung unveils Samsung Vision AI

Samsung Electronics has unveiled Samsung Vision AI at the CES 2025 First Look event, delivering personal AI-powered screens. Samsung also unveiled the latest flagship Neo QLED 8K QN990F and updates to its Lifestyle TVs and future display technologies. “Samsung sees TVs not as one-directional devices for passive consumption but as interactive, intelligent partners that adapt to your needs,” said SW Yong, President […]

January 6, 2025

Forecast: Video conferencing market at $5.1bn in 2024

The global video conferencing market is navigating a period of steady expansion, with volumes expected to approach four million units by the end of 2024, according to a report from Futuresource Consulting. Despite economic pressures, value is expected to surpass $5.1 billion (€4.9bn), up from $4.9 billion in 2023, driven by the rising adoption of […]

December 23, 2024

Asteria, Moonvalley build clean AI model for Hollywood

Asteria, the artist-led generative AI film and animation studio, has partnered with AI research company Moonvalley to build the entertainment industry’s first clean foundational AI model. Named ‘Marey’ after early cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Marey, this model aims to bring power to film and media production, while distinguishing itself by relying exclusively on ethically sourced data […]

December 18, 2024

Nielsen collaborates with Realeyes

Nielsen is launching expanded capabilities in their Outcomes measurement suite. By bridging creative evaluation with brand and sales lift, Nielsen says it will deliver deeper insights on the performance of ad creatives to power ad effectiveness and desired outcomes. The launch includes a new collaboration with Realeyes, a specialist in attention measurement.  With the addition […]

December 18, 2024

UK creatives fear AI copyright waiver

In a consultation announced by the UK government, it is proposed there may be an exemption to copyright laws, letting tech companies use material to train their artificial intelligence (AI) models unless the rights holder objects under a so-called ‘rights reservation’ system. In return, tech companies may be forced to open their AI models to […]

December 17, 2024By Colin Mann

AI: Devil and Deep Blue Sea

Remember Deep Blue, the IBM computer that beat a Grandmaster at chess? Sometimes seen as the moment Artificial Intelligence entered the public consciousness? These days, it is front and centre in both the tech and the creative industries. Uniquely, you can find protagonists in both who regard it as humankind’s next great step, and those […]

December 17, 2024

Moments Lab, Bitcentral partner on AI content discovery

AI and video search company Moments Lab has announced its integration with Bitcentral. enabling Bitcentral Oasis MAM users to enrich their media assets with AI-generated metadata while retaining their on-prem or fusion hybrid storage architecture. Moments Lab’s public API can be used to integrate its MXT-1.5 multimodal AI with Oasis. MXT-1.5 combines what it sees […]

December 16, 2024

WGA tells studios to sue AI trainers

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is calling on Hollywood studios to take a stand on the use of their members’ works as AI training data. Leaders of the WGA West and East demanded that producers take “immediate legal action” against any firms that have used writers’ work to train AI models. A letter sent […]

December 13, 2024