The Arena Group, the media company that published AI-generated fake writers in Sports Illustrated in 2023, has rebranded as Paradium.AI and acquired InfoSentience to scale AI-driven content generation…
BuzzFeed laid off about 180 employees, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, on Monday, hitting HuffPost, Tasty and its film and TV studio. The cuts are the first major move by new controlling o…
BuzzFeed laid off 180 employees, or 33 percent of its remaining staff, on Monday, affecting its news site HuffPost, film and TV studio, and recipe publisher Tasty, according to the New York Times. The…
Netflix disclosed in its second-quarter earnings report that approximately 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, primarily in post-production, to create enhanced crowds, historical battle seq…
Americans are using the word "monoculture" to mourn the end of shared cultural experiences like Stephen Colbert's final episode, while simultaneously applying the same term to describe how algorithms …
Author and illustrator Loryn Brantz is publicly denouncing BuzzFeed and Amazon after the companies licensed her "Good Advice Cupcake" character, Cuppy, to Prime Video for an AI-animated series without…
BuzzFeed and Vox Media, once celebrated pioneers of the audience-era digital media, have been acquired for a fraction of their former valuations, with Vox Media going to James Murdoch for $300 million…
Loryn Brantz, creator of The Good Advice Cupcake, publicly condemned BuzzFeed and Amazon after learning her character would be adapted into an AI-assisted animated series using Amazon's Project Nara p…
Byron Allen has closed a $120 million deal to acquire a 51% majority stake in BuzzFeed, becoming the company's chairman and CEO. Allen announced plans to transform the struggling digital media company…