Promising he is “very close” to naming a new AI Czar, Donald Trump was full of praise and hyperbole today for the “outstanding” and very well-heeled bosses of OpenAI, Meta, X, Anthropic, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Palantir and Google. Amid a backlash against data centers, worries of massive…

Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI, has been appointed as Disney’s first chief technology officer. He will report directly to CEO Josh D’Amaro, starting in the post on October 2. News of the appointment on Friday came after significant executive moves on Thursday at the company…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order to fast-track stringent oversight and control of AI that could have major implications for Hollywood. Projected as a move to step in where Donald Trump fears to go and respond to AI CEOs’ sudden change of heart about the rate of the…

Amazon Prime Video series Maxton Hall is the first programming on the streaming platform to feature new AI technology synchronizing actors’ lip movements with human-dubbed audio. The feature went live Wednesday on the first two seasons of the series, and will be used for its third season when it…

With the very non-digital backdrop of the San Jose federal courthouse, one of the most oddly convoluted and potentially significant fights over who really owns what in the A.I. era is approaching a TKO. It’s a fight full of slop, trademark and copyright claims, Italian Brainrot memes, licensing…

EXCLUSIVE: As churn continues to bedevil top streamers, one emerging firm has hit on interactive, AI-driven ways to keep viewers in the fold. Versus, which has been operating in stealth mode, has worked with platforms like Disney+, Paramount+ and HBO Max, along with the NFL and content providers…

Mark Zuckerberg might think those Kylie Jenner-branded Meta smart glasses are cool, but you know what is really cool? Not having to pay California and three other states virtually the entire valuation of your company. The Social Network script paraphrasing aside, that’s the position Meta’s…

Versant Media Group has acquired sports tech firm Full Swing for $530 million in cash, expanding its portfolio of businesses operating outside of traditional linear TV. Full Swing, which makes hardware and software used by consumers, competitive athletes, coaches, and commercial venues, had been…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has made a $100 million strategic investment in Cosm, a start-up operator of venues presenting “shared reality” programming like movies and live sports. The transaction will make SPE the lead investor in Cosm’s Series C financing round, giving the studio owner a…

With a blistering lawsuit filed Monday, the state of Florida may succeed where Elon Musk failed in bringing OpenAI and Sam Altman to heel. "Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said this…

(Updated with Musk deleting tweet slamming judge) “There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity,” Elon Musk, wrote Monday, stomping his feet after losing his big-bucks lawsuit against his now estranged OpenAI…

OpenAI’s march towards an estimated $1 trillion IPO picked up pace Monday when a California jury unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit over the direction of the AI giant. Accusing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of “stealing a charity” and “unjustly enriching” himself by shifting the tech…