<p>Media software maker and streaming app Plex on Monday released an updated version of its mobile app. The redesign features a new user experience, reorganized navigation that includes giving its Watchlist a dedicated spot, and other changes that aim to make it easier to access power-user features for Plex customers who use the company&#8217;s personal [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” Combining elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, the novel introduced readers to the fantastically complex city of New Crobuzon, filled with insect-headed khepri, cactus-shaped cactacae, and terrifying slake moths that feed on their victims’ dreams. It [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon announced this week that Jennifer Salke is stepping down as the head of Amazon MGM Studios — a move that could indicate high-level dissatisfaction with the company’s streaming strategy over the past few years. To be clear, Salke’s boss, Mike Hopkins (the head of Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video), praised her work in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nintendo announced on Friday that its live-action &#8220;The Legend of Zelda&#8221; movie will premiere on March 26, 2027. It&#8217;s a little weird to announce this the day after a Nintendo Direct livestream, where the gaming company usually unloads all of its recent news. But that was intentional. The company wants fans to download its new [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Lumon Terminal Pro &#8212; the computer used in Apple TV&#8217;s hit series &#8220;Severance&#8221; &#8212; has appeared on Apple&#8217;s retail website. When shopping Apple.com, you&#8217;ll see the new device, adorned with a red &#8220;New&#8221; label, when you click to view the available Mac computers Apple has for sale from the top-level navigation. But sorry, &#8220;Severance&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>

<p>During a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major upgrade to ChatGPT&#8217;s image-generation capabilities in over a year. ChatGPT can now leverage the company&#8217;s GPT-4o model to natively create and modify images and photos. GPT-4o has long underpinned the AI-powered chatbot platform, but until now, the model has been able to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Jonah Peretti’s career to date has been defined by constant reinvention. As the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, Peretti has been at the forefront of digital media for almost two decades, navigating changes as the once small startup transformed into, at one point, a multimedia powerhouse. But as the company grows older, one question lingers: [&hellip;]</p>

<p>If you haven’t heard the news, TechCrunch has a shiny new home. After years under the ownership of Yahoo &#8212; which, in turn, is backed by Apollo Group &#8212; the brand is now in fresh hands. Its new parent company: Regent, a dynamic private equity firm with a diverse portfolio spanning media, retail, and manufacturing. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Microsoft is launching a research project to estimate the influence of specific training examples on the text, images, and other types of media that generative AI models create. That&#8217;s per a job listing dating back to December that was recently recirculated on LinkedIn. According to the listing, which seeks a research intern, the project will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe &#8212; claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Google&#8217;s ad business. The search giant conducted the test because European copyright law requires it to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple is losing more than $1 billion per year on its streaming service, Apple TV+, according to a new report from The Information. Apple TV+ is the only service in Apple&#8217;s portfolio that isn&#8217;t profitable, the report reveals. The company has spent around $5 billion on content each year since the streaming service launched in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As conventional AI benchmarking techniques prove inadequate, AI builders are turning to more creative ways to assess the capabilities of generative AI models. For one group of developers, that&#8217;s Minecraft, the Microsoft-owned sandbox-building game. The website Minecraft Benchmark (or MC-Bench) was developed collaboratively to pit AI models against each other in head-to-head challenges to respond [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Gwyneth Paltrow gave an update on her company Goop in a cover story for Vanity Fair.  Paltrow founded the lifestyle brand Goop in 2008 and it has raised more than $140 million from investors including Greycroft and G9 Ventures, according to PitchBook. The brand is often regarded as one of the first examples of a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI is bringing new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its API that the company claims improve upon its previous releases. For OpenAI, the models fit into its broader &#8220;agentic&#8221; vision: building automated systems that can independently accomplish tasks on behalf of users. The definition of &#8220;agent&#8221; might be in dispute, but OpenAI Head of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API. Only one model is available in the API at the moment, &#8220;grok-2-image-1212.&#8221; Given a caption, the model can generate up to 10 images per request (limited to five requests per second) in JPG format, priced at $0.07 per image. For comparison, AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price increase in a decade for its premium subscription service Plex Pass, which offers power users a variety of additional features, like offline access, themes, hardware transcoding, and other advanced settings. The service will now cost $6.99 per [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Max announced on Wednesday that the HBO series “The Last of Us” will be available to stream in American Sign Language (ASL). Season 2 premieres on April 13. Notably, this is the first time HBO’s original content will be accessible for streaming in ASL on the service, representing a step toward inclusivity for deaf and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers&#8217; approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there&#8217;s no standard way to engage with them. On the other side, marketing agencies that employ hosts of people to book and track brand campaigns are limited by how many influencers they [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.S. crossed the 100 million paid subscriber mark for music streaming services for the first time ever last year, as per a new report by the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA). The subscriber number was up from 96.8 million in 2023, with year-on-year growth of roughly 3%. RIAA&#8217;s report said that these numbers [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stability AI has released a new AI model, Stable Virtual Camera, that the company claims can transform 2D images into &#8220;immersive&#8221; videos with realistic depth and perspective. Virtual cameras are tools often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real time. With Stable Virtual Camera, Stability sought to add [&hellip;]</p>