Google's September 2026 spam update entered a second phase on September 30, following the initial rollout announced September 24, according to Search Engine Roundtable's October 2 recap. Google also u…
U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta dismissed Penske Media's antitrust lawsuit against Google over AI Overviews, ruling that Penske failed to plead any actual agreement in which Google promised to sell …
US District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media against Alphabet's Google on Wednesday (Sep 30), ruling that the publishers' claims over Google's AI-generated sum…
US District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust lawsuits filed by Penske Media and Chegg against Google's AI Overviews in a memorandum opinion filed September 30, ruling that the publishers failed to…
Sony Music and Universal Music sued AI music platform Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that Suno's "v6" model was trained on outputs from earlier models that…
Disney named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, as its first-ever chief technology officer, Variety reported, with new Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro making the hire. Disney had sent Character.AI a…
AGBO partner Chris Brearton and chief scientific officer Dominic Hughes will deliver a keynote titled "Technology and Storytelling" at TIFFCOM on Oct. 29, moderated by Variety Asia editor Naman Ramach…
International media executive and producer Yoko Higuchi-Zitzmann and AI filmmaker Mark Wachholz have launched Dreamkite Studios, an AI production company, Variety reported. Higuchi-Zitzmann said the v…
Robin Williams' children Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams have revived the late actor's Instagram account, dormant since his death in August 2014, to combat unauthorized AI recreations of his voice and l…
At Variety's annual Showrunner Breakfast on August 14 in West Hollywood, top showrunners including Jonathan Tropper, Ashley Nicole Black, Debora Cahn, and Dan Harmon discussed network notes, writers' …
Mirage, the AI startup behind the video-editing app Captions, launched a 24-hour AI-generated news channel called Mirage News Network, which reached 50,000 viewers on X and drew 824,000 impressions on…
Roku has launched a 24-hour free channel, Fairground AI, at number 300 on The Roku Channel, broadcasting only AI-generated movies and shows with AI-made ads. The content is curated by Colin Petrie-Nor…
Director Eli Roth admitted on Tuesday that AI was used in 'a very small portion of a few scenes' in his upcoming horror film 'Ice Cream Man,' after previously suggesting the animated sequence was hand…
The White House posted a generative AI-created parody of Nicole Kidman's AMC Theatres ad, replacing 'magic' with 'MAGA' and featuring scenes of President Donald Trump, amid AMC's record-breaking weeke…
Former TheWrap and Variety reporter Jeff Sneider accused Deadline Editor-At-Large Mike Fleming Jr. of stealing his scoop about an AI-related scandal involving an unpublished debut novel, 'Call Me, I'l…
A German court ruled that AI music startup Suno infringed copyrights by using music from GEMA's catalog without a license, requiring licenses for both AI model training and AI-generated music. The Mun…
Meta's profit fell 14% to $15.85 billion in the last quarter despite revenue rising 28% to $60.8 billion, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg poured billions into AI infrastructure and legal costs. The company rai…
Locarno's StepIn think tank will debate 'Power, People, Data and the Future of Film' in its 15th year, focusing on how algorithms, AI, data-driven decision-making and industry consolidation are reshap…
Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, director of 'Her Private Hell,' told Variety that governments must regulate artificial intelligence, arguing that excessive digitalization is unhealthy for the mind and…
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against AI music platform Udio, alleging illegal copying of over 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley to train its …