Careers in the UK’s audiovisual (AV) performing industry are under threat due to significantly lower than typical earnings, despite surging profits for streaming platforms, according to research by the University of Glasgow that calls for action on legislative change. AV performers also risk losing work due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Just under a quarter of […]
BT has switched on Global Fabric, its new network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform and has been carrying out extensive live testing over the past few weeks. The first Global Fabric services will launch in early 2025. Global Fabric will make it easier and quicker for businesses to securely connect employees, customers and devices to apps and digital […]
LG Electronics (LG) last week held webOS Summit 2024 in Incheon, South Korea, sharing its strategic vision and future initiatives for expanding the AI webOS ecosystem and growing its platform business. Themed Empowering webOS with AI, the second webOS Summit played host to around 300 attendees representing 140 partner companies – including content developers, producers […]
Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, has unveiled Orion, its new AR glasses, which it says “bridges the physical and virtual worlds, putting people at the centere so they can be more present, connected and empowered in the world”. Showcased by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company’s annual Connect conference, the Orion glasses enable […]
Hollywood film director James Cameron has joined the board of StabilityAI, 40 years after making The Terminator. His role will centre around how the technology can be used in special effects. “I’ve spent my career seeking out emerging technologies that push the very boundaries of what’s possible, all in the service of telling incredible stories,” […]
AI: Artificial Intelligence, it may as well have been the sub head of the recent IBC. Was there an exhibitor or a product that didn’t have an AI tale to spin? We have been here before, the years when AR, VR or 3D were the letter pairs de jour. But AI is different, it isn’t […]
With connectivity and technology being front and centre for the new College of Commissioners and with the Draghi report calling for a major policy reform in telecoms, trade body Connect Europe has unveiled its policy agenda ‘Europe’s Digital Choice’, which it describes as an “ambitious” plan proposing eight policy steps to build a more Connected, […]
OpenAI will provide access to its training data for review of whether copyrighted works were used to power its technology. In a court filing authors in a class action suing the firm indicated that they came to terms on protocols for inspection of the information. They’ll seek details related to the incorporation of their works […]
A survey by The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) reveals a concerning outlook for the global information environment, with an increasing majority of experts predicting further degradation due to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). The report entitled Expert Survey on the Global Information Environment 2024 – Searching for Solutions flags social media owners, […]
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) and Google Cloud has announced the deployment of a new, AI-powered captioning solution (referred to internally as ‘caption AI’) in the US that utilises Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform. Initially being applied to unscripted programming, this captioning solution’s innovative technology is transforming the way WBD can create and deliver captions, reducing […]