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MPs to probe AI, copyright law

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee and Science, Innovation and Technology Committee of the UK House of Commons will hold a joint evidence session on the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright law. The session, on February 4th, will consider the Government’s recently announced consultation on copyright and AI. MPs will examine the current […]

January 31, 2025By Colin Mann

DISH selects ThinkAnalytics

ThinkAnalytics has announced that DISH Network, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar, has selected the Think360 content discovery platform, along with ThinkContentExplorer, to optimise its editorial operations, accelerate time to market, and boost viewer engagement in the US. By leveraging Think360’s advanced AI, intelligent search and a dataset enriched with ThinkAnalytics 40,000 metadata video tags, DISH will […]

January 30, 2025

Brightcove launches AI Content Suite

Brightcove, the intelligent video engagement platform company, has announced the launch of its AI Content Suite, the company’s first official general availability release following a successful customer pilot programme in 2024. This suite introduces a range of AI-powered tools to increase the impact of video content while also improving business productivity. The Brightcove AI Content […]

January 29, 2025

The Stargate Project building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI

The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion (€480.1bn) over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the US. The company will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and seek to generate economic benefit for the entire […]

January 22, 2025

Report: Half of marketers increasing programmatic CTV budgets

Proximic by Comscore, a division of Comscore, and a provider of audience and content targeting solutions for programmatic activation, has released its third annual State of Programmatic Report for 2025. A key finding shows that 72 per cent of respondents are planning to increase programmatic investments in 2025, demonstrating advertisers’ continued reliance on programmatic strategies. […]

January 22, 2025

Report: AI can drive major sustainability gains for telcos

A report from Liberty Global and EY suggests that the strategic adoption of AI in the telco sector has the potential to drive major sustainability gains over the next decade. The report – Smarter networks, greener planet – takes an in-depth look at how the telecommunications industry can harness AI in the coming years to […]

January 21, 2025

Study: AI-powered cyber threats drain security budgets

Research from post-quantum security speacialist, Naoris Protocol, highlights a stark reality: IT directors at major global firms are preparing for an unprecedented surge in cyber threats driven by AI, machine learning,and the Metaverse. As cyber criminals deploy increasingly sophisticated attacks, organisations plan significant security budget increases over the next two years. A global study of […]

January 21, 2025

Apple suspends AI news after BBC complaints

Apple is suspending an AI feature that made inaccurate summaries of news headlines. It had received complaints from the BBC after the AI-generated service issued a news alert with the corporation’s logo falsely telling some iPhone users that Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, Brian Thompson, had shot himself. Other […]

January 17, 2025

Report: Media in 2025 driven by algorithms

WARC’s latest forecasts show that global advertising spend surpassed $1 trillion (€0.97tn) for the first time in 2024, and is expected to grow 10.7 per cent this year, to a total of $1.08 trillion. Global ad spend has more than doubled over the last decade, growing 2.8x faster than global economic output since 2014, with […]

January 16, 2025

Deepdub opens access to Hollywood-vetted voiceovers

Deepdub, a specialist in AI-powered voice solutions, has announced the launch of its AI Audio API, an enterprise-grade platform designed to deliver Hollywood-vetted audio experiences. Leveraging Deepdub’s proprietary Emotive Text-to-Speech (eTTS) technology, the API facilitates seamless real-time voice generation with advanced customisation parameters such as accent, speed, tempo, and variance. AI voiceover options are plagued […]

January 16, 2025