Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, has published its fifth annual Year in Review, exploring global Internet insights and security trends during 2024, accompanied by a deeper dive on the most popular Internet services. Cloudflare’s 2024 Year in Review underscores how every year, as more people and devices connect to the Internet, global traffic surges (up […]
Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, has raised $155 million (€146.4m) in Series A funding to accelerate expansion across Europe and North America. The oversubscribed funding round was led by Sandton Capital Partners, with participation from Kestrel, Bluesky Asset Management,and Florence Capital. Nscale develops sustainable AI-ready data centres, deploys massive-scale GPU infrastructure, and delivers high-performance […]
DoubleVerify (DV), the software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics, has announced the launch of its Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Website Avoidance & Detection solution. This innovative offering helps advertisers navigate the risks posed by low-quality, AI-generated content and protect their brand reputation online. According to DV’s 2024 Global Insights Trends Report, 54 […]
Lux Aeterna, in collaboration with UK Screen Alliance, has explored the ethical and intellectual property challenges of generative AI in visual effects (VFX). To mark World VFX Day on December 6th and 8th, a panel featuring Lux Aeterna’s Creative Technologist James Pollock, UK Screen Alliance CEO Neil Hatton, and Dr Cobus Jooste, Senior Lecturer in […]
AI for video understanding and search company, Moments Lab, has announced its public API, which allows organisations to enrich their media assets with powerful metadata that can be integrated into any software. Moments Lab’s AI indexing technology MXT generates time-coded, searchable metadata on media files, capturing what’s happening in every moment of a video and […]
Amagi, a player in cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected TV (CTV), has announced the acquisition of Argoid AI, an AI company specialising in recommendation engines and programming automation for OTT platforms. Argoid AI has developed innovative AI products that enhance content recommendations and enable real-time programming decisions. Its solutions increase viewer engagement and […]
ThinkAnalytics, a specialist in AI-driven video discovery, viewer insights, and targeted advertising, has launched ThinkContextualAI, a contextual advertising solution for privacy-first, audience-aligned advertising. ThinkContextualAI leverages a proprietary ontology of more than 40,000 metadata tags, crafted to decode not only what content is about but why it resonates with individual viewers. With this insight, ThinkContextualAI allows […]
AI-Media, a global player in live and recorded AI captioning and language technology, has announced a strategic 5-year agreement with Central European Media Enterprises (CME), its first major Central and Eastern European broadcast customer win. AI-Media will deliver live captioning services via its state-of-the-art LEXI solution, powered by its SDI encoder network, across CME’s six […]
As South Africa prepares to take over the presidency of the G20 in 2025, UNESCO’s role as a privileged partner has been expanded to include the agenda of the finance ministers, in addition, the Organisation will be contributing particular expertise on issues relating to artificial intelligence. “After fruitful cooperation with the G20 in 2024, at […]
Creative technology firms and artists in Merseyside and the West Midlands are in line for a major financial boost, as a £13.5 million (€16.2m) investment in training, research and development funding is announced by the Culture Secretary to boost economic growth and job opportunities. Liverpool City Region’s MusicFutures cluster will benefit from £6.75 million to […]