More than one in 10 of hundreds of Hollywood job postings in late June were likely connected to AI, with top studios like Disney, Netflix, and Amazon recruiting for AI tool development while publicly …
ByteDance's Seed team shipped Seedance 2.5 on July 31, generating 30 seconds of video with synchronized audio in a single pass, double the length of Seedance 2.0 and triple that of Google's current mo…
French President Emmanuel Macron will host global film leaders including Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios Chairman Donna Langley, and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman …
ByteDance's AI video app Seedance is partnering with its education app Gauth to launch 'AI Course' on August 4, featuring AI-generated animated lessons for students. Gauth, which has 86 million monthl…
Anthropic has filed a counterclaim of non-infringement against opt-outee and book author Daniel Benjamin Gilbert in the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright suit, following a trend started by Nanoble, represe…
EY has deployed an 'invisible' AI router that has helped cut token consumption by up to 60% since its global rollout in April, according to Dan Diasio, EY's global consulting AI leader. The router sit…
Disney is reportedly planning to replace Microsoft's GitHub Copilot with OpenAI's Codex for internal software development, according to an unconfirmed report. The switch would mark a high-profile ente…
Disney is dropping Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and several other AI coding tools in the US in August, according to an internal message viewed by Business Insider, and plans to adopt OpenAI's Codex codi…
OpenAI has shut down its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch, citing strong competition from Google Chrome and a decision to bundle the product into ChatGPT. The company also d…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he deleted TikTok because he became addicted to the app, including a Saturday afternoon where he scrolled for three hours, during a recent episode of the "Relentless" podcas…
Innovaccer CEO Abhinav Shashank walked away from clients like Disney and NASA in 2016 to pivot his data analytics company to healthcare, and the startup has now crossed $200 million in annual recurrin…
Citing the Supreme Court's decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, Midjourney has asked a federal court for judgment on the pleadings that Disney's contributory infringement claim …
Fox Entertainment has joined the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), a coalition advocating for AI guardrails, signaling its commitment to responsible AI use. Jennifer Jon…
Midjourney is demanding that Disney, Warner Bros., and Universal disclose all internal uses of generative AI, including business plans and training data, in a high-stakes legal battle over copyright i…
Anthropic's latest frontier AI model has been distilled into open-weight models that perform nearly as well at a fraction of the cost, exposing a missing line item in the business models of frontier A…
A federal judge granted final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers over copyright claims, making it the largest known copyright settlement in U.S. history…
Netflix disclosed in a July 2026 SEC filing that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, the generative AI startup founded by Ben Affleck in 2022 to build filmmaking tools. The acquisition, an…
Disney has begun using generative AI to produce children's content, raising concerns about quality and ethics. The move marks a significant shift in how the entertainment giant creates material for yo…
Canva cofounder Cameron Adams said the company does not mandate a specific AI tool for employees, instead giving them budgets to experiment with tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Adams argued tha…
George Lucas said AI makes filmmaking 'easier' and 'there's nothing you can do about it,' while criticizing Hollywood for giving fans too much power through focus groups. The 'Star Wars' creator told …