PubMatic and Abovomaxlead collaborated to run one of Europe’s first agentic CTV campaigns using PubMatic’s AgenticOS. This initiative reportedly reduced costs, setup time, and improved quality and efficiency for CTV advertising.
Generative AI video, automated editing, scene detection, AI dubbing, voice cloning, and upscaling are moving from research demos into production pipelines. Get the daily rundown on which AI video capabilities are actually shipping, and which ones are still just announcements.
PubMatic and Abovomaxlead collaborated to run one of Europe’s first agentic CTV campaigns using PubMatic’s AgenticOS. This initiative reportedly reduced costs, setup time, and improved quality and efficiency for CTV advertising.
Parks Associates published an excerpt from its "Connected Consumer Privacy & Security in the AI Era" report. This excerpt discusses how AI agents and Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming the home experience and creating challenges for industry roles. The article posits AI's impact on various aspects of connected consumer technology.
This article provides an overview of key takeaways from the 2026 NAB Show, focusing on artificial intelligence and streaming technologies. It discusses the transformation of the media industry driven by these advancements. The text explicitly states it covers general takeaways from the event.
The article from Parks Associates, titled "AI Acceleration at the Edge: Optimizing Product Design," indicates a whitepaper or report focused on the application of AI, particularly at the edge, to improve product design. Although the full text is not provided, the title suggests an analysis of how AI can enhance efficiency and performance in product development within technological domains.
Omdia forecasts that cumulative global data center investments will near $1.6 trillion by 2030. This projection indicates that the AI Factory market is entering an "industrialization era" due to redefined AI infrastructure dynamics expected in 2026.
Google Cloud has released a new report detailing the top five trends in agentic AI that are expected to transform the media and entertainment industry by 2026. The report is available for download and focuses on the use of AI agents within this sector.
This article from Comcast Technology Solutions discusses trends and predictions for 2025 regarding sports content, artificial intelligence, and advertising within the streaming industry. It outlines how AI is being applied to enhance video workflows, content engagement, and ad monetization strategies in sports broadcasting. The piece suggests AI will play a critical role in personalizing content, optimizing ad delivery, and improving fan experience.
Amagi's Smart Scheduler is leveraging AI to automate linear channel programming processes. This development aims to enhance efficiency in scheduling content for streaming channels.
This article discusses how Amagi and AWS are utilizing cloud-native, AI-driven workflows to transform broadcast and streaming. It highlights their role in driving this shift in the industry. The focus is on the general trend and their collaboration rather than a specific product launch or business event.
Altman Solon Partner Anthony Milovantsev was featured by MarketWatch, discussing how the growth of AI workloads is predicted to drive an "optics supercycle" in the semiconductors and networking industries. This highlights the increasing demand for high-performance network infrastructure to support AI development and deployment.
Akamai published a blog post discussing the emerging bottleneck in distributed AI inference, identifying placement as the critical infrastructure challenge rather than raw compute power. The article suggests that effectively deploying AI models requires strategic positioning of inference capabilities closer to data sources and end-users. This perspective highlights the evolving infrastructure needs for AI systems.
Akamai highlights its Inference Cloud and API Security as solutions to power and protect Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents. The article indicates that these AI agents require distributed cloud infrastructure and security measures. This suggests Akamai is positioning its services as essential for the deployment and operation of autonomous AI agents.
TruPath Labs Research published findings on a real-time computer vision system for bounded-court projectile scoring, highlighting that data quality significantly impacts model performance more than dataset size, along with commercial licensing constraints and sensor-level encoding parameters being critical production considerations. The system, built on an RT-DETRv2-S transformer backbone and deployed on Apple Silicon, achieved 99.3% mAP50 on a custom 3-class domain.
Shenmu, led by Yang Zuoxing, specializes in low-power intelligent vision chips, achieving significant power consumption reductions for cameras, enabling wire-free operation. The company believes these cameras are crucial for providing real-time physical world data to large AI models and sees opportunities in inference computing power. Shenmu has developed a series of products based on its chips, including intelligent pan-tilt cameras and parking recorders, some powered by 1-watt solar panels.
A social media rumor suggests that '@rus' works at Pika Labs, a company active in AI video technologies. This post highlights a past acquisition interest in Pika Labs by Instagram, indicating the perceived value of their AI video advancements. However, a top comment disputes the Pika Labs connection to $VINE.
NVIDIA Research has introduced PiD, a Pixel Diffusion Decoder designed for fast and high-resolution latent decoding by unifying decoding and upsampling into a single generative module. PiD synthesizes 4x and even 8x upscaled images with low latency, decoding 512x512 images into 2048x2048 pixels in under 1 second on an RTX 5090 and as fast as 210 ms on a GB200 GPU. This technology achieves improved visual fidelity and is up to 5.9 times faster than cascaded diffusion-based super-resolution pipelines.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-ASR-Streaming, a new English streaming Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model with 600M parameters. Developed by NVIDIA, this model uses a Cache-Aware FastConformer-RNNT architecture to provide high-quality transcription with native punctuation and capitalization support, designed for low-latency streaming and high-throughput batch workloads.
This article, part one of a series, explores methods for automatically moderating text chats within video applications that utilize the 100ms platform. It specifically details how to adjust the chat feature of 100ms Prebuilt to implement moderation.
100ms has launched Polls AI, a new feature that allows users to create interactive polls directly from whiteboard content. This AI-powered tool is designed to streamline the process of initiating polls during interactive sessions without manual input for options.
100ms published a blog post, the second part in a series, detailing how to implement automated chat moderation within video applications using cloud services and Large Language Models (LLMs). The article specifically demonstrates how to integrate these features with 100ms Prebuilt chat functionality.
This blog post from 100ms details how to integrate AR filters into a video call application using their React SDK and Jeeliz. It describes a technical process for developers to implement Snapchat-like augmented reality features within 100ms video environments. The article serves as a guide for enhancing real-time video communication with AI-driven visual effects.
100ms has launched new features in beta: Speaker Labelled Transcription and AI-generated Summary. These additions leverage AI to automatically transcribe and summarize meeting content on their platform.
100ms published an article on how they utilized ChatGPT to enhance their customer support operations. The company transformed support chat interactions into a searchable FAQ database using the AI tool. This initiative aimed to improve efficiency and self-service options for customers.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to mastering ElevenLabs Voice Changer in 2026, highlighting its advanced AI voice generation capabilities, including voice cloning and multi-language support. It details setup, advanced techniques, and compares ElevenLabs with competing platforms for professional use in content creation, e-learning, and podcasting.
ByteDance is developing its own custom Central Processing Unit (CPU) chips to support its expanding AI infrastructure needs, driven by surging chip prices and supply shortages. The chips are intended for internal operations in ByteDance's servers and data centers, specifically for agent-based products like its Coze platform, and are exploring both Arm and RISC-V architectures.
elevate.io has released new advanced features for its platform, which are GPU accelerated and designed to work on low-end systems like Chromebooks or MacBook Neo. These new features integrate AI tools directly into the platform, allowing for seamless cloud-based content generation.
Amazon MGM has greenlit three animated children's shows that were generated using artificial intelligence. The initial viewing of these AI-generated shows did not elicit confidence.
Mux announced it has been fine-tuning a multimodal AI model for video intelligence following the recent release of Mux Robots. This new initiative aims to enhance video analysis capabilities for videos hosted on Mux.
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. has announced a phased progress breakthrough in quantum deep convolutional neural network technology. This advancement is specifically oriented towards image recognition tasks. WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. specializes in Hologram Augmented Reality technology.
Swiss broadcaster Canal Alpha has adopted Harmonic's AI-powered XOS video processor to modernize its playout-to-delivery workflow. This solution enables support for UHD content and aims to reduce space, equipment, and energy consumption for its 24/7 channels. The AI video processor from Harmonic reportedly offers up to 50% bitrate savings.
AWS Elemental Inference has launched 'smart subtitles', an AI-powered feature for automated, real-time live captioning for video streams. This new functionality utilizes advanced speech recognition to generate Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) formatted subtitles with low latency in multiple languages, improving content accessibility for broadcasters and streamers. Users can also create custom dictionaries to enhance transcription accuracy for specialized content.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is providing infrastructure for Amazon MGM Studios' new AI-animated projects. These projects leverage Project Nara, an AI production platform developed by Amazon MGM Studios and built on AWS.
Filmmaker Paul Schrader expresses a positive outlook on the future integration of AI in Hollywood filmmaking. He suggests that audiences will eventually embrace fully synthetic, AI-generated performers.
Filmmaker Paul Schrader discussed prompting ChatGPT to generate a script idea for a film in his style at the 'AI on the Lot' event. He described the AI-generated script as "not bad," indicating a functional if not fully developed creative use of AI in screenwriting.
Cloudflare announced the development of Town Lake, an internal unified analytics platform, and Skipper, an AI agent built on top of it. These tools are designed to enhance data insights and operational efficiency within Cloudflare.
Prime Video has ordered three new animated series which were developed from its GenAI Creators' Fund. The fund is backed by Amazon MGM Studios and Amazon Web Services, indicating an internal program to foster AI-generated content.
VFX house Digital Domain has launched DDAI, a new AI infrastructure. This infrastructure is designed to address the demands of modern film and episodic production workflows. Matt Smith will lead this new initiative.
NVIDIA announced the capability to run Step 3.7 Flash across its GPUs, facilitating enterprise-ready multimodal AI applications. This development aims to advance AI systems beyond text generation, enabling them to process and reason across various modalities including images, documents, and video.
This article discusses Steven Spielberg's perspective on the increasing use of AI in Hollywood. He expresses the view that AI cannot replace the 'soul' in creative work.
Higgsfield has released new AI toolset plugins designed for use with Adobe Premiere and After Effects. These plugins integrate AI capabilities directly into popular video editing software.
Klap, an AI-powered tool, allows users to transform long-form videos, including YouTube content, into short-form viral clips for platforms like TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. The service features AI to identify key topics, auto-reframe footage, generate engaging captions, and provides options for customization and direct publishing. Klap reports 3.5 million users and 8.5 million clips generated.
Onda, an open-source library of motion graphic components for Remotion, has launched an update focusing on enhancing agent-native discovery for LLMs. This update introduces 'pickWhen' and 'composes' fields to manifest entries, which allows AI models to better select and combine components for video creation without extensive prompt engineering. The library now features 70 components and 18 transitions across various categories, all designed with a consistent motion language.
CAMB.AI offers a free AI-powered translation service for Basque to Bulgarian, supporting text, documents, and other content up to 1,500 characters instantly. The company highlights its proprietary AI for various localization use cases, including AI dubbing for feature films and multilingual AI commentary for live sports.
A Cisco study predicts that AI will increase consumer internet traffic by approximately 6.6 times by the mid-2030s. This finding emerged from Cisco's first report focusing on AI's impact on Wide Area Networks (WANs).
Abbey Grocott of Brave Bison discusses how content creators can produce video content that is optimized for AI algorithms. The article suggests that AI rewards videos that provide clear answers rather than overly complex or 'clever' productions. This focuses on content strategy for generating video that performs well with current AI indexing and recommendation systems.
MediaTek announced that it will present its next-generation edge-to-cloud technologies and solutions at Computex 2026. The focus of these technologies will be on empowering the Agentic AI era. This presentation is scheduled to take place in Taipei, Taiwan.
YouTube will now automatically label videos that use "significant photorealistic AI" rather than solely relying on creators for disclosure. The AI labels will also be made more prominent, appearing directly below the video player for long-form content and overlaying YouTube Shorts. This move follows Google's release of the Gemini Omni multimodal AI model and expansions of YouTube's AI deepfake detection capabilities.
AI Digital has launched AI Creative Studio, a full-service creative production unit that integrates generative AI into media workflows. The studio aims to address the gap in programmatic advertising by producing, adapting, and scaling original content, including TV-grade video and audio, for brands and agencies. It utilizes a curated suite of AI tools to deliver format-diverse creative at scale and on a cost-efficient basis.
YouTube has implemented new features for AI-generated content, including automatic detection and more prominent labeling, which will be visible below the video player for long-form content and as an overlay for Shorts. While creators are still required to manually disclose AI use, YouTube will now automatically apply labels to significant photorealistic AI content if not disclosed, with creator dispute options. These labels will not directly affect video recommendations or monetization from YouTube's algorithms.
YouTube announced it will implement automatic labeling for photorealistic video content generated by AI. This measure aims to clearly identify such content on its platform.