Meta Platforms faces a federal trial in Oakland before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers over claims it addicted young users to Instagram and Facebook, with 29 state attorneys general seeking up to $1.4 tr…
Ben Affleck attended a high-level AI conference hosted by AFI and Google, 'AI Summit Creators at the Center,' alongside 'Star Wars' producer Kathleen Kennedy and executives from Meta, Google, Paramoun…
Nvidia announced a new funding mechanism to tap long-duration capital for AI compute, potentially expanding the blast radius of a bubble in service of its threatened margins, according to Ben Thompson…
On July 29, Hank Green, co-creator of Vlogbrothers and VidCon, faced backlash from fans after using a phrase in a video that sounded AI-generated, leading him to admit on X (later deleted) that he use…
Paramount CEO David Ellison said on the company's earnings call Tuesday that the merger with Warner Bros. Discovery will proceed despite a legal challenge, and that AI will serve as a tool for human s…
Mark Zuckerberg and Ari Emanuel used Wall Street Journal op-eds to frame corporate consolidation as populist liberation, with Zuckerberg arguing against concentrated AI power while Emanuel backed Para…
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the airline's booking data, which covers about 70% of third-quarter revenue through advance bookings, typically leads economic headlines by 60 to 120 days. Bastian …
U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy remains in post under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, overseeing the BBC's royal charter renewal and the Paramount/Warner Bros. Discovery merger, while Kanishka Nara…
Wall Street indexes fell on Monday, with the S&P 500 dropping 0.2%, the Nasdaq Composite declining 0.1%, and the Dow Jones falling 0.6%, as rising oil prices and geopolitical tensions weighed on marke…
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…
Ánima Estudios, one of Mexico's largest animation companies, has paused production amid a corporate restructuring, layoffs, and allegations of unpaid wages. Netflix revealed that generative AI workflo…
Morgan Stanley analyst Sean Diffley said AI will be key for the combined Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery to extract value from their $111 billion merger, estimating 20% to 40% cost savin…
Morgan Stanley analyst Sean Diffley said the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger could make HBO Max a staple in streaming, potentially rivaling Netflix, as he discussed AI's impact on the creative process a…
Former City equity analyst Ian Whittaker told an IAB Europe forecast panel that advertising has lost its way, becoming self-absorbed and commoditized by focusing on metrics like CPMs instead of value.…
Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference in July 2026 attracted AI leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, alongside media moguls discussing deals involving Comcast, Paramou…
Meta appointed Denise Moreno as its new chief marketing officer and Alex Schultz as its first chief data officer, signaling a shift toward AI-driven marketing. The executives emphasized blending AI wi…
Getty Images is terminating its $3.7 billion merger with Shutterstock after UK regulators imposed conditions requiring the sale of Shutterstock's global editorial business. The deal, aimed at fending …
At Cannes Lions 2026, industry leaders concluded that human judgment is essential infrastructure for AI-driven marketing, not an obstacle. OpenAI declared itself a media platform with nearly a billion…
Former Google engineering leader Hugh Williams used Anthropic's Claude Code to build Zettair, a search engine indexing 1.5 million Wikipedia articles, while writing zero lines of code himself. The pro…
Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison quietly donated about $45 million to a pro-Trump nonprofit during the 2024 campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal. Since then, Oracle has secured major governmen…