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 […]
Integral Ad Science (IAS), media measurement and optimisation platform, today announced a partnership with Snap and Lumen Research to bring personalised attention measurement to Snapchat. Snap Attention Measurement will now allow advertisers to access social attention metrics directly and seamlessly, combining Lumen’s eye-tracking system with AI-powered media quality data from AIS to create a tailored […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is proposing to designate Google with ‘strategic market status’ (SMS) in general search and search advertising under the new Digital Markets Competition Regime. The CMA has also published a roadmap of potential actions it could prioritise were Google to be designated. Early priorities include: requiring choice screens for […]
Endava, the technology-driven business transformation group, has published data which reveals a story of marked optimism around AI in the UK. Although AI technology is still emerging, two thirds of respondents (65 per cent) already rank it alongside water and energy in terms of social importance. A similar number (69 per cent) believe that AI […]