Josh D'Amaro, who was anointed the next CEO of Disney on Tuesday morning, stayed mostly out of the spotlight today but sat down with David Muir on Disney-owned ABC's World News Tonight alongside outgoing chief Bob Iger to talk about his new gig, AI, working with Dana Walden and more. Asked about…

Disney CEO Bob Iger said videos created with OpenAI’s Sora will soon start to appear on Disney+, but he doesn’t see the move affecting the rest of the company’s film and TV pipeline. Speaking on the company’s quarterly earnings call Monday, Iger told Wall Street analysts that the company’s…

Primordial Soup, Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio, has unveiled an animated short-form series about the American Revolution that was produced in partnership with Google DeepMind. On This Day … 1776 will post new episodes on Time’s YouTube channel throughout 2026. (The first two episodes and a…

The AI Film Festival is branching out to include design, new media, fashion, gaming and advertising, AI firm and festival organizer Runway has announced. In a video posted Wednesday to Instagram Reels, the company said the next annual edition of the festival, which will be held June 11 in New…

EXCLUSIVE: Equity and Pact are returning to the negotiating table over artificial intelligence and we can bring you much more on what those negotiations will entail. After a lengthy stand-off centering on the thorny issue of digital scanning, the actors union and producer trade body will begin n…

A long list of musicians, content creators and actors are among those who have signed on to a new campaign to protest tech giants’ use of copyrighted works in their AI models. The list of signees includes actors like Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett, music groups like REM and authors like…

Adobe is rolling out a new AI offering aiming to create common ground among major talent agencies, top filmmakers, visual effects houses and others balancing human creativity with technological advances. Dubbed Firefly Foundry, it uses AI models the tech company calls “commercially safe” to…

Scarlett Johansson has joined 700 entertainment industry figures in demanding that tech companies stop “stealing” copyrighted artistic work to train their AI models. Johansson has put her name to the "Stealing Isn't Innovation" movement from the Human Artistry Campaign, which also boasts Cate…

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators are overtaking traditional Hollywood and should be considered “the new stars and studios.” In his annual letter to the YouTube community published Wednesday, the top exec hailed the rise of creator content and also laid out ways the Google-owned video giant…

As Season 2 of Landman comes to a close, Billy Bob Thornton assures fans they haven’t seen the last of Tommy Norris. Despite his character’s ousting from M-Tex Oil in the Paramount+ show’s penultimate episode, the Oscar-winning actor recently declared that reports he’s leaving the show ahead of…

OpenAI is beginning to test advertising on its popular ChatGPT platform, potentially opening up a multibillion-dollar annual revenue opportunity. The company announced the move Friday. Given the computing power required by AI tools, OpenAI is spending much of the war chest derived from…

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