Google is cooperating with Disney‘s cease and desist, removing dozens of AI-generated videos featuring characters belonging to the century-old entertainment conglomerate. Following the Disney’s $1B deal with OpenAI for three-year licensing of several characters on Sora, Google has taken down…

UPDATED, with Google comment: The Walt Disney Co. has fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Google, claiming that its AI training models and services infringe on its copyrights on a “massive scale.” The letter was sent on Wednesday, just before the company made the announcement that it has reach…

EXCLUSIVE: After four years at TelevisaUnivision, Adam Waltuch, the media giant’s EVP of Global Distribution and Partnerships, is leaving the Daniel Alegre-led company. "We are grateful for his leadership over the last 4 years and the many contributions he has made to the company," said the…

The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into whether Google is violating competition rules with AI-generated summaries in its search results. In a statement on Tuesday, the European Commission said it would examine whether Google is unfairly rehashing the content of web…

The complex conversation over artificial intelligence's growing prevalence in the industry continues. But at least this time, songwriter-producer turned screenwriter Sean Douglas has thrown his hat into the ring in a more nuanced way. In Sweetwater, written by Douglas and directed by his father…

As another year comes and goes, our internet searches live on as a digital time capsule of life in 2025. On Thursday, Google released its annual Year in Search trend report, which shows the search queries that had the highest spikes in traffic during a sustained period in 2025, including…

Just over a year after Mark Zuckerberg joined other tech lords at Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the Meta CEO is going to find himself testifying in an L.A. courtroom on the dangers and potentially fatal harm that Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Snap are accused of inflicting on young…

YouTube is undergoing a staffing shakeup as the company pivots to focus on artificial intelligence, offering its US-based employees voluntary buyout packages with severance. The online video platform, which launched in 2005, is restructuring its products team for the first time since 2015…

YouTube ad revenue topped $10 billion for the first time in a single quarter, helping push parent Alphabet past Wall Street expectations for the July-to-September period. Total company revenue also hit a milestone, passing $100 billion in a quarter for the first time. It hit $102.34 billion, up…

Google veteran Pete Cory has been appointed Chairman of Arcade, the management company for YouTube stars The Sidemen. Cory's appointment comes swiftly after Thomas Benski's Lumina Media made a seven-figure investment in Arcade, taking a minority stake. The Sidemen started out as a YouTube…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Monday that will require platforms to regularly display warning labels of the addictive nature of social media. The bill, AB 56, is among several measures the governor signed to establish greater guardrails on social media and AI. AB 56…

In a Truth Social post made yesterday, President Donald Trump pressed Google-owned YouTube TV to restore access to Univision, citing the Spanish-language broadcast network’s favorable coverage of him and Republicans as reason for doing so. “I hope Univision, a great and very popular Hispanic…