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Samsung launches Perplexity AI-powered TV app

Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of the Perplexity AI-powered TV app. Elevating Samsung’s Vision AI Companion, which brings smart, generative AI support to the largest communal screens, the Perplexity TV App offers a new, AI-powered experience to help users quickly find what they’re looking for and discover new favourites. Perplexity is an AI-powered answer […]

October 21, 2025

Report: AI delivers early returns

Kyndryl, a provider of mission-critical enterprise services, has released its second annual Kyndryl Readiness Report, drawing on responses from 3,700 senior leaders across 21 countries. The data reveals an instance of momentum and reflection – as businesses report growing returns from AI investments while facing mounting pressure to modernise infrastructure, scale innovation efforts, reskill workforces […]

October 20, 2025

More deep fake woes for Sora

OpenAI has paused the ability for users to generate deep fakes resembling the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr on its Sora app. It says it’s doing so at the request of Dr King’s estate after “disrespectful depictions” of his image appeared. “While there are strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures, […]

October 17, 2025

Research: Ad-supported content gives rise to privacy fears

Research released by Verve shows that consumers are increasingly receptive to ad-supported content but also are more worried about how their data is used, particularly in relation to AI. Now in its second year, the 2025 In-App User Privacy Report, shares insights from a survey of 4,000 consumers across the UK and US, exploring the […]

October 17, 2025

Glance AI partners with DirecTV

Glance, the consumer AI company, and DirecTV have announced an agreement to bring Glance AI to DirecTV streaming customers in the US on DirecTV Gemini devices in early 2026. The latest complement to DirecTV’s personalised consumer experience, Glance AI offers interactive AI-powered content and commerce screensavers providing access to new entertainment, shopping, and creative experiences. […]

October 14, 2025

RTL Deutschland establishes AI infrastructure for Sidekicks

Sidekicks and RTL Deutschland, part of RTL Group, have announced the launch of a dedicated AI infrastructure. Hosted by RTL Technology, a subsidiary of RTL Deutschland, the infrastructure is designed to support Sidekicks – the agentic AI platform developed by smartclip for the media industry. Sidekicks combines media intelligence with process automation, embedding AI agents […]

October 14, 2025

Aprecomm launches AIVRA AI agent

Aprecomm, a provider of intuitive, self-healing network and customer experience solutions, has announced the launch of AIVRA (Aprecomm Intelligent Virtual Response Assistant), a continuously learning AI agent designed to transform how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) interact with their data. With AIVRA, Aprecomm says ISPs gain “real-time access to their entire operational ecosystem through a unified, […]

October 14, 2025

Report: USP critical to broadband service provider AI plans

Broadband Service Providers (BSPs) are overwhelmingly planning to move to Broadband Forum’s User Services Platform (USP/TR-369) standard in order to introduce AI, Wi-Fi sensing, L4S, and more into their home broadband offerings. This is part of their ongoing drive to deliver differentiated services and boost customer revenue, a report has revealed. The Future of the […]

October 9, 2025

ITV launches GenAI Ads Manager

ITV is leveraging Magnite’s streamr.ai technology as the basis of its new ITV GenAI Ads Manager production service to make it easier for SMEs to create their own advertising of a high enough creative threshold to run across ITV’s broadcast and streaming platforms. Following the expansion of ITV’s commercial creative production service to include the […]

October 9, 2025

MPA’s Rivkin slams Sora 2 copyright breaches

Charles Rivkin, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), has criticised OpenAI’s stance on copyright responsibility following the recent release of video production tool Sora 2. “Since Sora 2’s release, videos that infringe our members’ films, shows, and characters have proliferated on OpenAI’s service and across social media,” he noted. “While OpenAI clarified […]

October 7, 2025By Colin Mann