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Paula ParisiFebruary 14, 2025
TVs have become the primary viewing platform for YouTube in the U.S., surpassing mobile and desktop by watch time. The platform, which turns 20 this year, has gone from people “filming grainy videos of themselves on desktop computers to building studios and producing popular talk shows and feature-length films.” Content creators are “becoming the startups of Hollywood,” wrote CEO Neal Mohan in his annual letter to the YouTube user base. Mohan emphasized the company’s role in the entertainment ecosystem as 2024 marked the second consecutive year that YouTube was the most-watched streaming platform in the U.S., according to Nielsen. Read more
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Paula ParisiFebruary 14, 2025
Adobe’s Firefly video is now in public beta as part of Firefly AI, now multi-modal with video, image and vector generation. Available for $10 for Firefly Standard or $30 for Firefly Pro, the Firefly app offers additional tiers for premium video and audio features, offering a degree of customization based on project needs. Adobe continues to position Firefly as “the only generative AI model that is IP-friendly and commercially safe,” offering the option of contractual IP indemnification to protect against infringement lawsuits “in the unlikely event of a claim involving a Firefly output.” Read more
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Paula ParisiFebruary 14, 2025
OpenAI has decided to simplify its product offerings. A month after announcing the in-development GPT-o3 as its next frontier model, the company has canceled it as a standalone release, explaining that it would be integrated into the upcoming GPT-5 instead. “A top goal for us is to unify o-series models and GPT-series models by creating systems that can use all our tools, know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks,” OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman wrote in a social media post this week. Expected to ship later this year, the GPT-5 models will incorporate voice, canvas, search, deep research and more, OpenAI says. Read more
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ETCentric StaffFebruary 14, 2025
Unless there is breaking news this weekend, ETCentric and The Daily News Brief will not publish on Monday. We wish you and your families a very happy and safe Presidents Day. We’ll be back on Tuesday with the latest in media and entertainment technology news. Read more
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Paula ParisiFebruary 13, 2025
Thomson Reuters scored a victory defending its intellectual property in the first AI model training case to produce a substantive legal judgment. U.S. District Court of Delaware Judge Stephanos Bibas on Tuesday issued a partial summary judgment for Westlaw parent Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement case against Ross Intelligence. The court found that after Thomson Reuters refused Ross’ offer to license Westlaw material the startup hired a third-party to procedurally reconstitute the material, resulting in infringement. Ross defenses, including fair use, “all fail,” says the court. Read more