Warner Bros. Discovery Teams With Google Cloud for AI-Powered Captioning
Warner Bros. Discovery is teaming up with Google Cloud to use a new AI-powered captioning tool to significantly reduce production time and costs. The tool, which is powered by Google Cloud’s Vertex AI...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg’s 2024 Election Plan: Make Facebook, Instagram Less Political
You may have noticed less political content on your Instagram and Facebook feeds this year — and that’s by design. Specifically, it’s the design of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who, according to The New...
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X Under Musk: Suspensions Surge 307%, Driven by Action Against Child Abuse
X suspensions have more than quadrupled since Elon Musk bought Twitter, the social platform reported on Wednesday. At the same time, X is censoring far less content and accounts for violating its...
View ArticleBrad Pitt Condemns ‘Awful’ Impersonators Who Scammed $360K From Spanish Fans
Brad Pitt is speaking out following the recent arrest of scammers who allegedly pretended to be the actor to get money. According to Spain’s Ministry of Interior, five people were arrested for...
View ArticleRunway to Give Filmmakers Up to $1 Million to Make AI Movies
AI company Runway will grant moviemakers up to $1 million to make films powered by artificial intelligence, the company announced on Thursday. The New York-based company, which recently struck a...
View ArticleOpenAI’s Sam Altman Worked for ‘Love’– Now He’ll Make $10.5 Billion
He’s not just doing it for the love of the AI game anymore. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will receive up to $10.5 billion in equity in the company behind ChatGPT as part of a major restructuring plan,...
View ArticleAmazon Sees Over $1.8 Billion in Video Ad Sales During Upfronts
Amazon has secured more than $1.8 billion in ad revenue for its streaming services next year — topping the tech company’s internal expectations. The ad sales, which were just locked in during the...
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Hands On With Meta’s New Orion Augmented Reality Glasses | Commentary
This week, I became one of the few people outside Meta to try its new “Orion” augmented reality glasses. The product is a technological marvel, layering computing on top of the real world in a...
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Adele, Jack Harlow Music Videos Will Return to YouTube in SESAC Deal
The music videos for a number of top artists, including Adele, Jack Harlow and Ariana Grande, are returning to YouTube after the Google-owned video service reached a new deal with SESAC on Monday....
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‘Spy on Me’: TikTok Users Aren’t Worried About China Getting Their Data
TikTok, if compelled by China’s communist government, would be required to share its users’ data — and most Americans don’t seem to mind one bit. Only 32% of Americans are in favor of the U.S....
View ArticleEpic Games Sues Google, Samsung for Antitrust Violations
Epic Games is suing Google — once again — for anticompetitive practices, this time adding Samsung to the mix. The “Fortnite” developer accused the two tech giants of conspiring to block users from...
View ArticleElon Musk’s X Worth 79% Less Than When He Bought It
Elon Musk’s X is worth nearly 80% less than what he paid for the social platform, previously known as Twitter, when he bought it two years ago, according to new estimates from Fidelity. The financial...
View ArticleOpenAI Valuation Leaps to $157 Billion After New Round of $6.6 Billion Funding
OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion in new funding, bringing its total valuation to the massive tune of $157 billion. The new funding round was led by Thrive Capital but also includes Nvidia, Microsoft,...
View ArticleGov. Newsom’s Anti-Deepfake Law Blocked by Federal Judge, Elon Musk Celebrates
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new anti-deepfake law, targeting the use of manipulated content in the 60 days before an election, has been blocked by a federal judge. The Wednesday ruling was...
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Jock Talk: NFL YouTubers Score Big Views and Big Bucks
Like a lot of 20-something American guys, Brett Kollmann loved to talk football. So in early 2017, he decided, with the support of his then-girlfriend, to quit his job as a production assistant at NFL...
View Article‘Assassin’s Creed’ Maker Ubisoft Reviews ‘Strategic Options’ Amid Buyout Rumors
Ubisoft, the French gaming company behind “Assassin’s Creed,” acknowledged a recent report that it may be sold off, saying it “regularly reviews all its strategic options” in a statement Monday. The...
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TheGrill 2024: Navigating Change for Those Who Plan to Survive the Disruption
There are any number of ways to clock the sea changes underway in the entertainment world, most of them personal and life-changing for people in this industry. The changes are real, and it is evident...
View ArticleOpenAI, Hearst Strike Content Licensing Partnership
OpenAI has struck a new content licensing partnership with Hearst to integrate the latter’s newspaper and magazine content into its artificial intelligence products. The collaboration will offer...
View ArticleFox Technology Chief Calls on Entertainment Companies to Be ‘Peers to Big...
Hollywood studios need to approach artificial intelligence as “peers” rather than subordinates to Big Tech, Fox’s chief technology officer Melody Hildebrandt said at TheGrill conference on Tuesday....
View Article14 Attorneys General Sue TikTok Over the App’s Impact on Children’s Mental...
Fourteen attorneys general filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday over concerns about how the app can impact the mental health of children. Each lawsuit was filed by a separate member of a...
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