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Magnifi, Accedo AI highlights deal

Video solutions provider, Accedo, and Magnifi by VideoVerse, an AI-driven video technology company and SaaS platform, have announced their partnership to bring AI-powered sports highlights to the Android TV framework, Accedo Launcher. Accedo Launcher is a Google certification-ready, specialist product framework that enables global TV operators to replace the standard Android TV Operator Tier Launcher […]

September 18, 2023Nick Snow @ IBC

Viaccess-Orca, Microsoft, generative AI partnership

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a specialist in providing OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions, is collaborating with Microsoft on new advancements in generative AI. At IBC, VO is showcasing how it is harnessing the latest innovations in large language models (LLM) through integration with LLMs on Microsoft Azure including Azure OpenAI Service to […]

September 14, 2023

XroadMedia introduces new AI tools to power enjoyable TV experiences

The leading personalisation specialists, XroadMedia, has announced the latest updates for its clients utilising their content discovery solution. Easy to use back-end tools, improved voice search capabilities and enhanced AI for metadata and dynamic user interfaces. Watching TV has become more about spending time looking for something to watch, across different sources and within services. […]

September 6, 2023

Media Distillery deployed at Magenta Telekom

Media Distillery, a provider of AI-enabled video analysis solutions for the video entertainment industry, has announced that Austrian multiservice provider Magenta Telekom, part of Deutsche Telekom Group, is deploying EPG Correction Distillery to improve the user experience for its 500,000 video service customers. Following a successful POC, EPG Correction Distillery is currently in deployment and […]

September 4, 2023

MPs identify 12 AI governance challenges

With their colleagues on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee calling for a Government rethink on proposed AI copyright exemptions, an interim report from the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee of the UK House of Commons sets out the Committee’s findings from its inquiry so far, and the twelve essential challenges that AI governance must […]

August 31, 2023By Colin Mann

MPs call for AI copyright exemption rethink

The UK Government must follow through on its pledge and abandon plans to allow AI developers the free use of existing music, literature and works of art for the purposes of training artificial intelligence to come up with new creations, according to an all-party group of MPs. In its second report on connected technology, the […]

August 30, 2023By Colin Mann

Liberty Global outsources Horizon to Infosys

Liberty Global and Infosys have expanded their collaboration to evolve and scale Liberty Global’s digital entertainment and connectivity platforms. Building on their existing multi-year collaboration which has supported Liberty Global’s technology services platforms since February 2020, the companies will significantly expand the programme, with Infosys taking over build and operations of Liberty Global’s Horizon entertainment […]

August 15, 2023

News Corp profit collapse; looks to AI

News Corporation has recorded a 75 per cent drop in full-year profit. The US-listed media posted $187 million (€170.5m) in net profit for the financial year, down from the previous year’s $760 million record. The numbers were hit by lower print and digital advertising in Australia and lower print advertising at in UK. For the […]

August 11, 2023

MPs warn over tech-enabled domestic abuse

The Government must make tackling ‘tech abuse’ a priority, according to the UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, amid a warning that the use of smart technology and connected devices in facilitating domestic abuse is becoming a growing problem. The Committee’s report, Connect tech: smart or sinister?, also calls for more to […]

August 7, 2023By Colin Mann

Satellite funding boost for UK broadband, 5G coverage

British innovators working to revolutionise 5G and broadband coverage for every corner of the UK could be in line to secure up to £160 million (€186m) from a scheme to deliver the next generation of high-tech satellites, Science and Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan has announced. LEO satellites represent the next generation of space technology, offering […]

August 2, 2023By Colin Mann