Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, and several regional newspapers, is cutting 220 editorial jobs and closing three local news websites. The company says this is because Google now answers more questions with AI, leading to a …
Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube have formed a new policy coalition to lobby Washington on behalf of streaming services, including on live sports. The Streaming Access and Choice Alliance (SACA) launched on 14 September, with the three companies as foundin…
The recording industry’s global trade body has launched a new commitment asking music distributors to stop fraudulent tracks before they reach streaming services. IFPI announced the Streaming Integrity Initiative in London on 14 September. Twenty-seven…
Amid the latest U.S. Open creator controversy, Wimbledon does not plan dedicated creator accreditation for 2027, unlike U.S. Open and FIFA-TikTok models.
Adam Mosseri has warned that users who switch off Instagram’s recommendation system end up with a worse experience, telling an Australian press briefing that engagement can fall by as much as 50% and that satisfaction scores fall off a cliff. Mosseri s…
A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local netwo…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two new API models, one of which Adobe has already put into Firefly. The company says more than 3 billion images a week are created across ChatGPT and its image API. The notable additions are interface features r…
The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation…
The Trump administration has taken exception to the UK’s plans to increase the prominence of ‘trusted news sources’ on YouTube and other digital platforms.
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those authors are discovering that a share of it goes to their own publishers. The New York Times reported on Friday that authors and publ…