AI

Paramount has made a sweeping move to redirect users from its cable network websites to Paramount+. Comedy Central, CMT, Paramount Network, TV Land, and MTV sites now point visitors to the streaming platform, effectively removing vast archives of content from public access. This follows the unexpected shutdown of the MTV News website earlier this week, which erased two decades of content. Continue Reading →

I forgot to mention a super fun moment from Cannes last week. Zombie brand Toys"R"Us and OpenAI flexed a bit as they showed the "first-ever brand film" (aka commercial) using Sora, OpenAI's new (yet unreleased) text-to-video tool. Continue Reading →

In the least surprising lawsuit of 2024, the music industry is suing AI startups Suno and Udio for allegedly using copyrighted music without permission. Continue Reading →

Apple announced a delay in releasing iOS 18’s flagship AI features in the European Union, citing concerns over the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulations. Affected features include Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring on the Mac, and SharePlay Screen Sharing. Continue Reading →

Ford CEO Jim Farley said the company has achieved Level 3 autonomy, which allows cars to handle most driving tasks independently. Continue Reading →

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist, is co-founding a new AI company called Safe Superintelligence, Inc. (SSI, Inc.). Continue Reading →

Former Snap engineer Bobby Murphy has launched a new social network called Butterflies, which integrates AI-driven entities that can engage in conversations, provide companionship, and assist with various tasks. The platform's AI companions are designed to learn from user interactions to continuously improve their responses and adapt to individual preferences, creating a personalized and dynamic social experience that evolves with the user. Continue Reading →

DeepMind has unveiled V2A, an AI-powered technology capable of generating audio from a video input (not from a text description, but from the video input itself). As this technology matures, it's going to have an outsized impact on video creation workflows. Continue Reading →

As you know, AI models rely on vast amounts of real-world data scraped from the web, often plagued by privacy issues and inherent biases, and there has been talk about the possibility of running out of new data to train on. Synthetic data, however, offers a compelling alternative, and NVIDIA just introduced a vast synthetic data set. Continue Reading →

I'm in Cannes this week for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. It's a week-long celebration of excellence in branded communications and advertising. So, as you can imagine, the event is filled with people who create, buy, and sell advertising. As you can also imagine, every conversation ultimately gets to the subject of AI. Among the pressing concerns, one of the biggest is the threat that web-connected large language models (LLMs) pose to web publishers. Let's review. Continue Reading →