<p>Reliance and Disney have completed their landmark Indian media merger, creating an $8.5 billion entertainment powerhouse in the country&#8217;s streaming and television markets. The deal, proposed in February, brings together Disney Star with Reliance-controlled Viacom18 under a joint venture that will control about 85% of India&#8217;s streaming market and roughly half of television viewership in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reliance and Disney have completed their landmark Indian media merger, creating an $8.5 billion entertainment powerhouse in the country&#8217;s streaming and television markets. The deal, proposed in February, brings together Disney Star with Reliance-controlled Viacom18 under a joint venture that will control about 85% of India&#8217;s streaming market and roughly half of television viewership in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Former CNN anchor Don Lemon said on Wednesday he is leaving Elon Musk&#8217;s X, a decision made less than a year after X announced that &#8220;The Don Lemon Show&#8221; would appear on the social media platform three times a week. That deal was canceled before it was ever signed, and Lemon sued Musk and X [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify announced on Wednesday that it will start paying podcast hosts who make popular videos on its streaming platform, as the company looks to take on YouTube&#8217;s dominance in the video podcast space. The company announced a new “Partner Program” that lets creators monetizes their content beyond ad revenue. Although creators can already monetize their [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There now exists an MP3 file in this world of Mark Zuckerberg earnestly singing the lyric &#8220;to the window, to the wall, &#8217;til the sweat drop down my balls.&#8221; The Meta founder met his wife, Priscilla Chan, at a college party where the song &#8220;Get Low&#8221; by Lil Jon &amp; The East Side Boyz featuring [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has once again teased the company&#8217;s long-delayed HiFi or &#8220;super premium&#8221; tier, a higher-qualify subscription offering the streaming service first announced in 2021 and then failed to roll out. In the company&#8217;s third-quarter earnings call with investors on Wednesday, the exec suggested that such a product was still on the way, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>X, formerly Twitter, is no longer the &#8220;digital town square&#8221; it once promised to be. Following the results of the U.S. presidential election, floods of users unhappy with the app&#8217;s latest direction are moving over to a competing app, Bluesky. Bluesky&#8217;s decentralized social media platform has steadily grown from 9+ million users as of September [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Variety reports that Lena Dunham is working with Apple and production studio A24 to adapt Michael Lewis’ book “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” which chronicles the life of Sam Bankman-Fried and the implosion of his company, FTX.&nbsp;She is set to write the script, the outlet said. FTX, once one of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The media industry today may not have a very favorable view of AI &#8212; a technology that&#8217;s already been used to replace reporters with AI-written copy, while other AI companies have scooped up journalists&#8217; work to feed their chatbots&#8217; data demands, but without returning traffic to the publisher as search engines once did. However, one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple&#8217;s pile of regulatory woes in the European Union has ticked up again: The iPhone maker is being accused of unlawfully discriminating against consumers by applying restrictions on how several of its media services can be accessed around the bloc. Consumer protection authorities in three EU Member States have been investigating the geoblocking measures (access [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple&#8217;s pile of regulatory woes in the European Union has ticked up again: The iPhone maker is being accused of unlawfully discriminating against consumers by applying restrictions on how several of its media services can be accessed around the bloc. Consumer protection authorities in three EU Member States have been investigating the geoblocking measures (access [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As part of an ongoing effort to embed virtual reality (VR) in education, Meta has launched a new partnership with a slew of universities in the U.S. and U.K., designed to provide feedback on a new product that Meta hopes will finally make VR just a little more mainstream. The new Meta for Education beta [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As part of an ongoing effort to embed virtual reality (VR) in education, Meta has launched a new partnership with a slew of universities in the U.S. and U.K., designed to provide feedback on a new product that Meta hopes will finally make VR just a little more mainstream. The new Meta for Education beta [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Beatles have been nominated for two Grammy awards this year, and no, we did not accidentally fall into a time warp back to the 1960s. The Beatles&#8217; song &#8220;Now and Then,&#8221; refined with the use of AI and released last year, is up for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance. So, the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>There’s a big opportunity for generative AI in the world of translation, and a startup called Panjaya is taking the concept to the next level: a hyperrealistic, GenAI-based dubbing tool for videos that recreates a person’s original voice speaking the new language, with the video and the speaker&#8217;s physical movements automatically modifying to match up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the charts, to the streaming services where users discover and play their favorite music. With the launch of a new &#8220;Share to TikTok&#8221; feature, music fans will be able to directly share tracks from both [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the charts, to the streaming services where users discover and play their favorite music. With the launch of a new &#8220;Share to TikTok&#8221; feature, music fans will be able to directly share tracks from both [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Suno CEO Mikey Shulman found himself in an unlikely place for the founder of a generative AI music company: a songwriting class at Berklee College of Music. &#8220;It sounds like walking into the lion&#8217;s den,&#8221; Shulman said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. &#8220;The approach of just walking in there and saying, &#8216;don&#8217;t worry, there&#8217;s no [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The world’s richest man buys out one of the most popular social media platforms and uses it as a propaganda and disinformation machine in support of a presidential candidate. What could go wrong? An analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that tracks misinformation, found that Elon Musk posted at least [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The world’s richest man buys out one of the most popular social media platforms and uses it as a propaganda and disinformation machine in support of a presidential candidate. What could go wrong? An analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that tracks misinformation, found that Elon Musk posted at least [&hellip;]</p>