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AI Raises the Bar for Deep Skills in Jobs (AIM)
Until about 40 years ago, it was commonly estimated that skills had a 'half-life' of at least ten years before needing refreshment. Today, that figure stands at four years.... More
NBCUniversal to Use AI Host for Olympic Highlights (TVB Europe)
Personalised recaps will provide fans with their own highlights package, narrated by the AI recreation.... More
Cognizant’s CTO of AI on How His Lab is Crafting Generative AI Agents for Companies (Tech Brew)
Tech Brew caught up with Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s CTO of AI, who’s credited with helping to invent the NLP tech that paved the way for Siri, about what his new San Francisco-b... More
How Do You Deliver Sports Personalization at an Olympic Scale? Yiannis Exarchos Is Warming Up for Paris (NAB Amplify)
Next month, the host broadcaster for the Paris 2024 Olympics plans to produce 11,000 hours of content, compressing the equivalent of 450 days of content into just 17 days. This inc... More
Inside Europe’s Tech Hubs: France’s AI Push Puts it on the Rise (CNBC)
In the 13th arrondissement of the French capital Paris is an old rail freight station that has been converted into the world’s biggest start-up campus. Known as Station F, the ma... More
Spotlight on VFX In Europe (VFXV)
The European visual effects industry has evolved as a global VFX leader after a notable resurgence in the last decade. European studios have also been dominating awards ceremonies ... More
Virtual Production Studio Dimension Selects AWS and Arch Platform (AWN)
Dimension uses AWS services supporting its compute, storage, and remote workstation needs. In addition, the studio leverages AWS Deadline Cloud to support cloud-based render pipeli... More
BBC Aims to Appeal to Younger Viewers with Immersive Music Gigs (TVBEurope)
Each gig sees the artist perform in a “capture area” where it is transformed live into a 3D model and streamed into the virtual venue.... More
AWS Bedrock Gets Anthropic’s New Claude 3.5 Sonnet Model (AI)
Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic upgrade their partnership to build Gen AI applications... with Gen AI assistance by adding Claude 3.5 Sonnet to co-pilot tasks.... More
IBC Show to Focus on AI, Shifting M&E Business Models, Sports (TV Tech)
In a press conference last week, IBC organisers previewed the upcoming 2024 IBC Show, taking place Sept 13-16 at the RAI Amsterdam, with a focus on how AI is impacting media and en... More
Amazon in Europe: Committing to German Cloud, AI Expansion (TM)
Amazon is reportedly investing 10 billion euros into Germany as it aims to expand the cloud infrastructure of Amazon Web Services, its computing unit. As AI opportunities conti... More
BBC Invests £500,000 in Virtual Streaming (Tech.eu)
BBC will also partner with Condense to use its technology within the New Music Portal, an initiative that aims to bring in younger audiences by creating virtual “game-like” 3D ... More
Dubformer’s Partnership Program: Scaling Dubbing Business with AI
Dubformer’s newest strategic partnership program allows dubbing businesses to leverage AI technology with expert guidance and training to thrive in the AI-powered market. (more&h... More
SAP Has Found a Way to Bring Us All on the Digital Transformation Journey (ITPro)
From Joule to WalkMe, Sapphire 2024 was all about how generative AI can make everyone’s job that little bit easier – and this is just the start.... More
Slalom: Your Future Customer is a Machine
The concept of “machine customers” has emerged from an IoT afterthought to a customer segment demanding attention. These AI-driven entities are drastically altering the consume... More
AWS: Accelerating the Next Wave of Generative AI Startups
Since day one, AWS has helped startups bring their ideas to life by democratising access to the technology powering some of the largest enterprises around the world including Amazo... More
Multimodal Marvels: How Advanced AI is Revolutionising Autonomous Robots (Arm Blog)
Harnessing the power of large language models to enhance robot multimodality.... More
Will the Creator Economy Become a Confluence of UGC and GenAI? (NAB Amplify)
Both generative AI and user-generated content are revolutionizing the creator economy, increasing personalization and blurring the lines between human creativity and machine innova... More
AWS: Accelerating the Next Wave of Generative AI Startups
Since day one, AWS has helped startups bring their ideas to life by democratizing access to the technology powering some of the largest enterprises around the world including Amazo... More
AMD and the Future of the AI PC (ZDNet)
AI will close the knowledge gap between what users want to accomplish with their PC and what they know how to do. AMD helps your company position itself to take advantage of this t... More
