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Video: How AI Can Be A Creative Content Tool For TV
Tech leaders working on the cutting edge of AI in media share how it can already be used to extensively version content and usher in a new …
Apple Will Revamp Siri To Catch Up To Its Chatbot Competitors
Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative AI to iPhones after the company’s most significant reorganization in a decade.
ChatGPT Maker OpenAI To Unveil Google Search Competitor On Monday
OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, …
TikTok To Label AI-Generated Content
TikTok will start labeling artificial intelligence-generated content uploaded from other platforms as part of a push to tackle …
Veritone Launches AI Consulting/Services Group, Achieves AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner Status
Veritone, which designs human-centered AI solutions, has launched an AI consulting and services group to bridge the marketplace gap for …
AI & THE MEDIA
Inside eBay’s Next Generative AI Ad Marketplace
eBay Ads leads the company’s organization that runs the machine learning (ML) and the AI recommender systems, a data-filtering tool that …
Brightcove Integrates New AWS-Powered Generative AI Solution To Enhance Customer Service
Brightcove, a streaming technology company, has implemented Amazon Q Business, a new generative AI assistant on Amazon Web Services (AWS). …
AI & THE MEDIA
Pulitzer’s AI Spotlight Series Will Train 1,000 Journalists On AI Accountability Reporting
The Pulitzer Center has officially kicked off The AI Spotlight Series, a new training initiative that aims to teach 1,000 journalists how to …
AI & THE MEDIA
SMPTE Spells Out AI Standards Process
Renard Jenkins, SMPTE president, along with AMD's Fred Walls and EBU's Alex Roulex explore the ongoing development work for AI standards …
AI & TV
AI’s Desperate Hunger For News Training Data Has Publishers Fighting Back. Here’s How.
As desperate AI companies face training data shortages, news organizations are finding new ways to fight back against the AI scraping of …
Mainstream Media Cuts Localization Costs With Dubformer
Munich-based broadcaster Mainstream Media, which operates across Germany, North America, Poland and LatAm, has completed 240 minutes of …
AI & THE MEDIA
AI Is Stealthily Altering How News Is Made And How The Public Finds Information
Artificial intelligence is proving both a blessing and a bane for news publishers. On the one hand, generative AI technologies promise …
AI & THE MEDIA
Google To Pay Up To $6M To News Corp For New AI Content
AI & THE MEDIA
Eight U.S. Newspapers Sue ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI And Microsoft For Copyright Infringement
The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and other papers filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a New York federal court.
AI & THE MEDIA
Space Industry Races To Put AI In Orbit
A raft of startups, companies and governments are trying to develop new chips to unlock AI's power in space. The harsh conditions of space …
OPEN MIKE
How AI Can Save Journalism
Cynthia Lieberman: In the right hands and with thoughtful application, artificial intelligence has the potential to save and revitalize …
AI & THE MEDIA
Saudi Arabia Spends Big To Become An AI Superpower
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of …
AI & THE MEDIA
Meta, In Its Biggest AI Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial …
AI & THE MEDIA
As AI-Created Photorealistic Images Proliferate, Documentary Producers Draw Up Guidelines
On Tuesday, a group of archival producers presented a draft set of best practices for using generative AI tools in Los Angeles, noting a …
Meta Oversight Board Reviews Handling Of AI-Created Celebrity Porn
Meta Platforms' Oversight Board is reviewing the company's handling of two sexually explicit AI-generated images of female celebrities that …
AI & THE MEDIA
Axios Sees AI Coming, And Shifts Its Strategy
“The premium for people who can tell you things you do not know will only grow in importance, and no machine will do that,” says Jim …
Waymark Expanding AI Video Advertising Platform
AI video advertising company Waymark has secured partnerships with top broadcast, cable, radio, and streaming platforms that now cover over …
NAB Show: Operative To Debut Adeline, New AI Platform For Media Companies
At the NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), Operative will announce Adeline, a new assistive AI platform purpose-built to help media …
AI & THE MEDIA
SAG-AFTRA Seeks To Write AI Protections Into California Law
SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors, is pushing for legislation that would require detailed consent for the use of “digital …
Sinclair Begins Generative AI Usage
Tennis Channel’s Petko Unfiltered will be translated into Spanish using AI tech. Sinclair commits to responsible and transparent AI …
AI & THE MEDIA
New Effort To ‘Inoculate’ U.S. Voters Against AI Misinformation
A bipartisan coalition with support from Hollywood power players and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Archewell Foundation is working to …
AI & THE MEDIA
How Tech Giants Cut Corners To Harvest Data For AI
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online …
New Study Of AI Music Production Pits Human Against Machine
A new study into generative AI in music production shows that machine learning tools, while promising, lag human composers in creating music …
AI & THE MEDIA
An AI Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting …
AI & THE MEDIA
George Carlin Estate Settles Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Comedy Special
George Carlin‘s estate has settled a lawsuit over an AI-generated imitation of the late comedian, with the creators agreeing to remove it …
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NAB Show Offers An Expansive Gen AI Primer
One look at the schedule for the 2024 NAB Show and you might be convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the solution for all that …
NAB Show: Qvest To Introduce GenAI Innovations & Integrated Solutions
Qvest, a provider of digital transformation across broadcast, media and entertainment, will attend the NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), …
AI & THE MEDIA
SydeLabs Raises $2.5M To Solve Security And Risk Management For Generative AI
Globally, policymakers continue to be concerned about the security and safety risks of generative AI.1 Now, security and risk management …
AI & THE MEDIA
AI Companies Are Courting Hollywood. Do They Come In Peace?
Hollywood talent agencies and producers have met with AI companies, including ChatGPT maker OpenAI, to learn about how their technologies …
The AI Perils Buried In The Fine Print
Major media firms are bullish on the emerging tech as a profit driver, but a close read of the risk factors portends far less rosy …
NAB Show: ThinkAnalytics Launching ThinkFAST Solution For Channel Creation
ThinkAnalytics, a provider of Al-based TV content discovery, viewer data insights and targeted advertising will be exhibiting at NAB Show in …
NAB Show: ENCO To Add AI News Anchor To Qimera Virtual Production Set
At the 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17), ENCO will showcase an AI-driven virtual anchor delivering live news from a realistic 3D …
Amazon Pours $2.75B Into Anthropic In Push To ‘Accelerate’ Generative AI Tech
Amazon is investing $2.75 billion in the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, part of a larger push to “accelerate” adoption of …
NAB Show: Dalet To Showcase AI-Enabled Production, Automation & Monetization
Dalet, a technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, today announced its showcase for the NAB Show in Las Vegas (April …
NAB Show To Offer Latest AI Info, Panels, Products
From content creation to delivery to revenue, artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the broadcast, media and entertainment …
AI & THE MEDIA
Tennessee Just Became The First State To Protect Musicians And Other Artists Against AI
The move makes Tennessee, long known as the birthplace of country music and the launchpad for musical legends, the first state in the U.S. …
Ateliere To Develop End-to-End Generative AI Media Supply Chain
Ateliere Creative Technologies, a media software solutions company, announced its AI roadmap, redefining the award-winning Ateliere …
AI & THE MEDIA
OpenAI Sprinting To Keep Up With Startups On AI-Generated Video
Software that can create convincing video from text prompts is progressing fast, raising questions about disinformation as well as the …
NAB Show: Moments Lab To Unveil Next-Generation MXT-1.5 AI
AI and cloud media company Moments Lab, formerly Newsbridge, will showcase new features powered by the latest version of its award-winning …
AI & THE MEDIA
Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence
The Middle Eastern country is creating a gigantic fund to invest in AI technology, potentially becoming the largest player in the hot …