State broadcast associations are backing the NO FAKES Act, a federal bill aimed at unauthorized AI replicas of a person’s voice or likeness. The practical question is how far Congress goes without creating new clearance headaches for legitimate news, satire and production work.
Kuaishou’s generative video tool is being promoted to filmmakers, but the useful question is still whether short AI clips can move from creative tests into rights-cleared production work.
The deal folds Mango New Edit’s remote dailies and offline editorial services into MTI Film’s post-production business, reducing one more handoff between set, edit and finish.
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HBS is centralising key World Cup 2026 operations at a Dallas broadcast centre, with venue feeds, replay, graphics and data moving through a much larger IP-based production network.
Production teams testing generative video need to decide which models handle which jobs, how assets move between them, and how much risk they accept when a vendor changes the rules.
The state’s new law requires conspicuous labeling when ads use synthetic human-like performers, creating another approval checkpoint for agencies, brands and media companies.
SynthID and C2PA checks are moving closer to everyday users, but watermarking and content credentials are still verification aids, not a universal truth machine.
Explainers & Guides
Google’s Gemini Omni is a multimodal video model built to create and edit short clips from text, images, audio and video. Its real value is faster iteration, not magic replacement of production or post.
Gaussian splatting sounds faintly ridiculous, which is unfortunate, because it is becoming genuinely useful in virtual production, shot planning and VFX. The short version: it can turn real-world locations into photoreal 3D…
Software-defined playout moves channel origination from fixed broadcast hardware into flexible software workflows. It is a practical reason FAST channels, pop-up feeds and hybrid master-control operations are getting easier to launch, though…
Companies to Watch
MTI Film is a Hollywood post-production facility that also develops specialist software for dailies, mastering, QC and film restoration. Its main products are Cortex, DRS Nova and the…
Frequency provides cloud-based software for creating, scheduling, playing out and distributing streaming television channels, especially FAST, OTT and CTV channels. Its main product, Frequency Studio, replaces much of…
Lightstorm Vision is James Cameron's stereoscopic 3D technology and production venture, focused on native 3D capture for films, TV, sports, concerts, documentaries and live events. It combines 3D…
ElevenLabs builds AI audio tools for speech generation, voice cloning, dubbing, sound effects, music and conversational voice agents. For media teams, its most relevant uses are fast voiceover…
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