Disney Has Fought AI Firms Over Copyright. Now It’s Testing AI Lyric Videos
Disney is working with AI startup OpenArt to conceptualize lyric videos, starting with Go the Distance from Hercules.
EU Court Adviser Warns AI Chatbots Could Risk Infringing Copyright Law
The statement comes after Hungarian publisher Like Company challenged Google over its Gemini chatbot service in a domestic court.
AI Company Seeks New Hearing In Copyright Battle With Thomson Reuters
Ross Intelligence on Wednesday sought a new appellate hearing in a high-profile battle over whether it infringed copyright by training its …
Netflix’s New AI Feature Wants To Know Your Exact Mood
The streamer is launching AI Discover, a new feature to help answer the company's decades-long question: What do subscribers really want to …
AI-Generated ‘Slopaganda’ In Political Ads Puts Internet Platforms On Alert
The midterm election cycle has been dominated by “slopaganda,” or campaign ads featuring AI-generated clips and images, creating another …
Tech Giants Try To Stem Flow Of Election Disinfo Unleashed By AI
OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.
Netflix Launches First AI-Branded Content Recommendations Feature on TVs
The initial test of features will be available on select smart televisions in the U.S.
LOCAL TV STRATEGIES 2026
TVN Video: Station Groups Move Past the AI Question — Now It’s About Where to Spend
Leaders from E.W. Scripps, Fox Television Stations, Hearst Television, Circle City Broadcasting and more shared an inside look at their AI …
Utopai Studios Names Hans Ku Chief Product Officer
Utopai Studios has named Hans Ku chief product officer as the company expands its film and television slate and develops its PAI cinematic …
Microsoft Generated $10B In Revenue From OpenAI
Microsoft reported that its revenue for the third calendar quarter of 2026 rose 19% to $92.3 billion. But the surprise came in a regulatory …
OpenAI Launching Election War Room To Track Interference Efforts
The company is bringing hundreds of employees together to respond to suspected efforts to use its tools to disrupt the midterms.
LOCAL TV STRATEGIES 2026
From Modular Journalism To Addressable Ads: How Local Broadcasters Are Building Streaming That Scales
Executives from CBS, NBCUniversal Local, E.W. Scripps and Gray charted the next phase of their streaming strategies in a panel at …
Kaitoi Opens AI Ad Campaign Workspace To Public
Kaitoi Labs Inc. has opened Kaitoi to the public, a workspace the company says lets media owners build an ad workflow once and reuse it for …
Anthropic Reveals Skyrocketing Growth and Spending Plans In IPO Filing
Ahead of what could be the largest public listing ever, Anthropic said revenue soared to $16.3 billion in the first half of the year, and it …
It Took Just 12 Hours For An AI Start-Up Founded By Ex-DOGE Staffers To Break Into Anthropic
The start-up firm Cathedral’s ability to penetrate sensitive programs at one of the nation's leading AI companies comes amid mounting …
LOCAL TV STRATEGIES 2026
Build Vs. Buy: How TV Station Groups Are Deciding Their AI Roadmaps
Executives from E.W. Scripps, Fox, Hearst, Circle City, Genna and the Weather Company explain how station groups decide what to build, what …
Meta Quietly Delays Controversial Update That Critics Say Will Allow Website Scraping
Following outrage from news publishers, the tech giant pushed back an update for business accounts by three weeks. It still plans to move …
Stage 32 Launches Marketplace To Combat AI Slop
Script platform Stage 32 has launched an official marketplace to partly help combat an influx of AI-written projects. The Stage 32 …
The Wall Street Journal’s New AI Tool, ‘Doppler,’ Forecasts The Issues That Will Shape The Midterm Elections
Ahead of Election Day, the tool has ingested 25 million TikTok videos and 500,000 podcasts to gain new insight into U.S. voters.
AI Just Found A Bug That Puts Up To 70% Of The World’s Websites At Risk
Artificial-intelligence tools helped find one of the most severe online bugs ever. Cyber experts are racing to patch it before hackers use …
The Weather Company Unveils Weather Story Assist
AI-powered storytelling co-pilot streamlines preparation and asset discovery.
AI & TV
Meta Just Turned Your Newsroom Content Into Its Training Set
Every news organization that runs a Facebook page now faces a forced choice: Keep Meta's audience or keep control of the reporting on your …
Disney Asked Character.AI To Go Bankrupt For A Get-Out-Of-Lawsuits Card
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged …
The AI Attack-Ad Nightmare Is Coming True
AI is producing reality-bending midterm ads about defaced Bibles, upscale dinners and a board game with a "Death to America" playing card. …
CNN Reaches AI Content Deal With Google
Google will pay CNN for use of their journalism content in their AI products.
LG Ad Solutions, Magnite Expand CTV Buying Partnership
LG Ad Solutions and Magnite have expanded their partnership with a three-year extension that keeps Magnite’s SpringServe as LG Ad …
TV & AI
Have Knowledge Graphs Fallen Out Of Favor With AI Builders?
Knowledge graphs were the hottest thing in AI architecture a year ago. But today, most teams have quietly shelved them for plain vector …
Disney Offers $20M For Character.AI Assets
After hiring Character.AI‘s former CEO as its chief technology officer, Disney is looking to acquire assets from the five-year-old startup …
TV’S MULTIPLATFORM TRANSFORMATION
Sly: I Asked AI How It Would Reinvent Local Television. The Answers Were Surprisingly Similar
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini have some advice for TV station groups. Will those groups be able to get out of their own way enough to …
USA Today Sues OpenAI For Over $250M, Alleging Willful Copyright Infringement
USA Today’s parent company and 13 of its entities sued OpenAI in New York on Thursday, accusing it of illegally copying hundreds of …
Oracle, Broadcom & SpaceX Seek Blockbuster Debt Deals To Pay For AI Chips
Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs among lenders in talks to finance megadeals worth tens of billions of dollars apiece.
FCC Considers Allowing More Political Robocalls Before Midterms, Including Those Created With AI
Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellphones unless the caller gets consent beforehand. The petition before the FCC calls for a …
AI Music Fraudster Who Drew Millions In Royalties Is Sentenced To 18 Months
Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his AI-generated music, earning him as …
AI Agents Forecast To Drive $100B In Sales By Next Year
OpenAI Dots, Grok bots, Meta Muse and OpenClaw Instinct, among others, will take consumers into the world of agentic commerce this holiday …
Spending On AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses To Budget
Artificial-intelligence use is measured in tokens, but the models’ use of tokens at any given task can be unpredictable.
AI Nonprofit Will Spend $10 Million On Journalism
The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism plans to announce that it is launching an institutional grantmaking fund, which executive director …
OPEN MIKE
The AI Roadmap For Local Broadcasters: Six Takeaways For Strategic Transformation
LMA’s Broadcast Transformation AI Lab says stations must treat the story as the “atomic unit,” adopt goal-driven AI agents and digitize …
AI & Media Workflows In 2026
Artificial intelligence is streamlining operations from ingest to playout and from capture to edit and multiplatform distribution. What’s …
Tech CEOs Privately Questioned Amodei For Sounding AI Alarm Bells
Nvidia’s CEO was among the execs at White House event who called out the Anthropic leader for warning about the technology’s capabilities.
OpenAI Doubles Support For Lenfest’s AI & Local News Fellowships
With an additional $10 million in program funding, the Lenfest Institute will consider new applicants in local TV news and statewide public …
FTC Opens Investigation Of Anthropic & OpenAI
The agency aims to use its consumer-protection powers to examine whether AI labs have misled the public about dangers from the technology.
MIW Announces Free Webinar On AI For Content Creators
Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio will host a free webinar next month focused on how artificial intelligence is changing content …
At White House, Trump Asks AI Titans To Police Themselves
President Trump’s meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial intelligence as …
Newspapers: White House Favors AI At Expense Of Publishers
News organizations suing OpenAI are urging a federal judge to give "little weight" to the Department of Justice's opinion that training …
OpenAI Scraps Release Of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
Meta Forms Business-Facing AI Product Platform
As Meta continues to invest billions into the development of superintelligence and AI, the tech giant will begin selling its …