Two original sci-fi features built around generative AI across their entire production pipeline have been unveiled at the Cannes Film Market, as filmmaker Chuck Russell and his company Neumorphic AI set a production partnership with generative video platform Higgsfield. The projects, “Hyperia” and “b,” will deploy AI tools from worldbuilding and creature design through to…
For the past semester, some film and media students at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts have used advanced artificial intelligence tools to create and edit images after the school signed an agreement with a generative AI company, as announced earlier this month. Students in Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, an arts and technology-based graduate program,…
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in everyday applications, it is also gaining meaningful traction in the legal M&A community, most notably through AI-powered virtual data rooms — or VDRs — and generative AI platforms purpose-built for the legal industry. These tools are reshaping how practitioners approach deal execution, due diligence review and contract management,…
STOCKHOLM, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pricer AB, a global leader in digital shelf-edge solutions, announces that its Canadian partner JRTech Solutions has signed a major agreement with Sobeys, one of Canada’s leading supermarket chains. The contract includes the deployment of Pricer’s latest electronic shelf label (ESL) technology…
(Credits: Grimes) Tue 21 April 2026 13:21, UK Grimes has made the depressing prediction that artificial intelligence will prove to be a “bigger deal than Jesus”. The singer, real name Claire Elise Boucher, has been one of the most vocal figures about AI in the music industry over the last few years and has now…
Industry estimates suggest that training frontier models now costs hundreds of millions of dollars, underlining the need for long-term chip supply agreements. As competition intensifies among AI firms, securing reliable, high-performance computing capacity has become a strategic priority to sustain innovation and meet rising user demand.
Microsoft, Chevron and investment firm Engine No. 1 have signed an exclusivity agreement to explore a major power supply deal aimed at supporting the rapid growth of AI-driven data centers. The move highlights how tech giants are scrambling to secure reliable energy sources as demand surges for infrastructure powering generative AI tools like ChatGPT and…
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based startup developing generative artificial intelligence, announced on Sept. 4 that it has received an investment from U.S. semiconductor giant Nvidia Corp. Backed by the world’s largest AI chipmaker, the Japanese startup, which launched a year ago, is quickly making its mark in the industry. Sakana AI has raised around 20 billion…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the central force reshaping mergers and acquisitions in the technology, media, and telecom (TMT) sector. Global deal value surged 76 per cent in 2025 to $903 billion (€781.5bn), with AI-related transactions alone reaching $117 billion. What was once a speculative technology is now driving investment decisions, partnerships, and acquisitions in…
This new volume sourcing arrangement is to provide agencies with greater certainty. The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has inked a new five year volume sourcing agreement with Microsoft to ensure continuity of services across government and to provide agencies with greater certainty. According to the DTA, the agreement provides cost certainty through stable pricing, improved…
