US Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has chaired a Judiciary subcommittee hearing revealing Big Tech’s role behind the unchecked piracy of copyrighted content to fuel companies’ artificial intelligence (AI) models. The hearing featured witness testimony from bestselling author David Baldacci as well as AI experts and law professors who lent credence to Senator Hawley’s claim: AI […]
The EBU Digital Committee has entered a new chapter under the leadership of its recently elected Chair, Philippe Keutgen, Media Platforms Strategy and Partnerships Advisor at RTBF. Keutgen has delivered his first message: the committee will be a driver of action, innovation, and value for all Members, large and small. “I want to steer us […]
Daniel Efergan, former Executive Creative Director of Interactive & Innovation at animation studio Aardman, has launched a consultancy that will advise production companies on navigating the challenges and maximising the opportunities of AI. Aardman will be Efergan’s first client. Working with production companies across the worlds of animation, filmmaking and games, the new consultancy will […]
Moonvalley, the AI research company building foundational AI video models and tools trained exclusively on licensed content, has raised $84 million (€71.8m) in additional funding led by existing investor General Catalyst. The round includes strategic investments from entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), AI cloud CoreWeave, and Comcast Ventures. Existing investors Khosla Ventures […]
smartclip, RTL Group’s adtech business, has announced the launch of Sidekicks, a new agentic AI platform designed to address practical challenges in the media industry. Developed in collaboration with its subsidiary Realytics, the platform combines Realytics’ media intelligence with smartclip’s process and workflow automation — delivering intelligent, secure agentic AI solutions for cross-media operations. The […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is to hold an Evidence Session examining the Government’s new Creative Industries Sector Plan. DCMS Minister Sir Chris Bryant will be among the witnesses at the session on July 8th. Also giving evidence will be Sir Peter Bazalgette and Baroness Vadera, co-chairs of […]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the successful completion of its previously announced acquisition of Juniper Networks, a specialist in AI-native networks. The transaction, valued at $14 billion, doubles the size of HPE’s networking business and provides customers with a portfolio of networking solutions. “Today begins a new era for HPE – we are now at […]
The Premier League and Microsoft have announced a five-year strategic partnership designed to transform how 1.8 billion fans in 189 countries engage with the world’s most-watched football league. As part of the collaboration, Microsoft will become the official cloud and AI partner for the Premier League’s digital platforms, modernising the League’s digital infrastructure, broadcast match […]
US homes now own an average of two smart TVs – dominated by LG and Samsung – but Roku and Fire TV continue to make headway in 2025. But how exactly are users leaning into new TV features and content on their ‘most-used’ TV set? Hub Entertainment Research has released its annual Evolution of the […]
Cloudflare, the tech company that secures sites and manages their traffic, has rolled out a new permission-based setting that allows owners to automatically block AI companies from collecting their digital data. With the new setting, websites can block — by default — online bots that scrape their data, requiring the website owner to grant access […]