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Report: IBC 2023 was about modularity, not Gen AI

The DPP has published its assessment of how well vendors at IBC 2023 met the current needs of their customers. The IBC 2023: Demand vs Supply report looks at four key areas in which the customer community has stated it has an interest, and assigns a score to how well the market is responding to […]

September 29, 2023

WSC Sports partners with United Media

WSC Sports has entered a strategic partnership with United Media, the South East Europe (SEE) media company. United Media (UM) will utilise WSC Sports’ AI-driven platform to maximise its content production and monetisation capabilities across five of the Group’s core markets: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. By leveraging WSC Sports’ automated content platform, UM […]

September 27, 2023

Gcore, Ampere join forces

Gcore, a European provider of public cloud and edge computing, content delivery, security, and AI, has announced its collaboration with Ampere, a pioneer in the development of cloud-native processors. The collaboration brings together Gcore’s cloud infrastructure expertise with Ampere’s innovative 128-core processors based on the ARM architecture and optimized for cloud workloads. Gcore virtual machines […]

September 27, 2023

LG sets 6G data transfer record

LG Electronics has announced the successful wireless transmission and reception of 6G terahertz (THz) data over 500 metres, the longest distance recorded in any 6G test conducted in an outdoor, urban area to date. Run jointly with LG U+, the test took place at the beginning of September at LG Sciencepark in Magok, Seoul. This […]

September 26, 2023

Niel invests €200m in AI

French billionaire businessman Xavier Niel is investing €200 million in AI, split between a future research lab to be located in Paris, cloud supercomputing capabilities powered by Nvidia Corp. hardware, and funding for startups. The project hopes to lure top French AI engineers — who left to work for big tech firms — back to […]

September 26, 2023

Riedel, Studio Automated AI production collaboration

Riedel Communications and Studio Automated have agreed to collaborate on an innovative artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted video production solution. By joining forces, the two companies aim to create an optimised video production solution that will enable sports productions and leagues to remotely produce their live broadcasts with minimal personnel and operating costs. Studio Automated has developed […]

September 26, 2023

OpenX launches ConteX

OpenX Technologies, the omnichannel supply-side platform, has announced the launch of ConteX, an OpenX marketplace within the SSP that empowers brands and agencies to activate a variety of both off-the-shelf and custom premium contextual solutions without complicated contracts and long wait times. As targeted media-buying evolves in response to third-party cookie deprecation, 54 per cent […]

September 26, 2023

More writers sue Chat GPT

A group of novelists, including John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen, are joining the suit filed by the US Authors Guild against OpenAI over its chatbot technology. They accuse the company, backed Microsoft, of infringing on their copyrights by using their books to train its popular ChatGPT chatbot. They say that OpenAI’s chatbots can now produce […]

September 20, 2023

Magnifi, Accedo AI highlights deal

Video solutions provider, Accedo, and Magnifi by VideoVerse, an AI-driven video technology company and SaaS platform, have announced their partnership to bring AI-powered sports highlights to the Android TV framework, Accedo Launcher. Accedo Launcher is a Google certification-ready, specialist product framework that enables global TV operators to replace the standard Android TV Operator Tier Launcher […]

September 18, 2023Nick Snow @ IBC