Netflix is at a turning point where the company will soon find out if its brand still has momentum and the ability to dominate in today’s streaming market given the plethora of choice available to consumers. On Tuesday, Netflix announced its plan to roll out its password-sharing restrictions to a global audience, including the US, … Read more
Comcast announced its new streaming offering for Xfinity internet customers on Tuesday. Called NOW TV, the package costs $20 per month and includes a subscription to Peacock Premium, as well as over 40 live channels and over 20 free ad-supported TV channels (FAST). The addition of Peacock’s premium subscription – a value of $4.99/month – … Read more
Opera today announced that it is introducing an AI side panel to its browser called “Aria”, which is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company says Aria is both a web and browser expert that makes it easier to find information on the web, generate text or code, or get answers to your product questions. The … Read more
Google’s Sundar Pichai has agreed to work with lawmakers in Europe on what’s been dubbed an “AI pact” — seemingly a contingency package of voluntary rules or standards while formal regulations for adopting AI are still being worked out. Pichai met with Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, who issued a statement after … Read more
The same week that Warner Bros. Discovery launched its merged streaming service HBO Max and Discovery+, Max, Paramount announced the launch date of Paramount+ with Showtime. The newly integrated service will roll out to users in the US on June 27. As part of the launch date announcement, the company also said it plans to … Read more
Only a few months have passed since Microsoft and OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world, sparking a buzz among tech enthusiasts and industry titans. Now the technology underpinning this generative AI is breaking through barriers, reaching remote hamlets hundreds of miles from the tech hubbub of Seattle and San Francisco. Jugalbandi, a chatbot built in … Read more
Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing is now starting to roll out to US subscribers and other markets, after a delayed launch. The streamer originally planned to introduce “paid sharing” for US subscribers in the first quarter of this year, but pushed back the launch date to the summer, after seeing cancellations in markets where it … Read more
With Spotify’s AI DJ, the company trained an AI on the voice of a real person – that of Cultural Partnerships head and podcast host, Xavier “X” Jernigan. Now it appears that the streamer can turn that same technology into advertising. According to statements by The Ringer founder Bill Simmons, the streaming service is developing … Read more
Microsoft’s student tech-for-good competition, the Imagine Cup, has crowned this year’s winner: Tawi, a team from Kenya that applied machine learning tools to help children with auditory processing disorder (APD) better understand others. APD is a hearing disorder in which someone hears sound just fine, but their brain has trouble processing it. This can lead … Read more
At its Google Marketing Live event today, the tech giant announced it is launching Product Studio, a new tool that allows sellers to easily create product images using generative AI. Brands can create new images within Merchant Center Next, Google’s platform that helps businesses manage how their products appear on Google. Google says Product Studio … Read more