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13 hours ago
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Tastes Great, Less Filling? Report On Meta Plan For Cheaper, Fully AI-Made Ads Boosts Tech Giant's Stock As Media Agency Shares Slump
Meta Platforms is reportedly planning to deliver advertising creative materials produced entirely with AI, a move that would deliver significant cost savings to ad buyers and shake up the overall marketplace. The Wall Street Journal report on the initiative sent Meta stock up 3% and dragged down shares in ad agency giants WPP, Omnicom and Interpublic between 2% and 4% apiece. More from Deadline NBC Leads Move To Pull Viral Chinese Paraglider Video Over Concerns It Was AI Generated Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Get D.C.'s Acclaim At The AI Honors Ceremony New York Times, Amazon Unveil AI Content Licensing Deal Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long cited AI as a core strategic objective, recently outlining plans to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on developing large-language models like Llama. Advertising, which is the tech firm's primary source of revenue, could also be transformed. An unidentified source told the Journal that the set-up would allow brands to present images of products it wants to promote, along with budgetary goals. AI tools would then create the entire ad, including imagery, video and text, at a considerable savings. A high degree of personalization would let brands determine subsets of Meta's billions of users across Instagram and Facebook would receive the spots. Further customization features would allow a brand campaign to be broken down into finer targets. The news builds on a pattern over the past several years, with ad spending moving from traditional media to digital and social. Zuckerberg addressed Meta's broader commitment to using AI to enhance ad capabilities during the company's annual shareholder meeting last week. 'In the not-too-distant future, we want to get to a world where any business will be able to just tell us what objective they're trying to achieve, like selling something or getting a new customer, how much they're willing to pay for each result, and connect their bank account and then we just do the rest for them,' the CEO said. Even if Meta makes good on its projections to build a full-AI system, a number of advertisers will likely pause before fully committing. While social media has vacuumed up an increasing share of brands' overall spending, ad buyers frequently have to reassess when their create appears next to objectionable content, something that has happened with regularity. Given the laissez-faire shift across tech and government over the past couple of years, conditions could be setting up for another cycle of retrenchment. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Everything We Know About 'Happy Gilmore 2' So Far
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13 hours ago
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Sky Boss Dana Strong Raises Artificial Intelligence Copyright Concerns: 'I Can't Fathom How A Small Producer Keeps Up'
Sky boss Dana Strong says artificial intelligence (AI) has become a 'cultural movement' within the organization, but she has serious concerns about IP protection. Strong cited the new opt-out system being considered by the UK government, which would mean copyright holders would need to opt-out from having their material used for training AI models. This has caused concern amongst producers, rightsholders and all and sundry. The legislation is currently making its way through parliament but has not yet been passed. More from Deadline 'Flight 149' Director Hopes Evidence Uncovered During Filming Will Help Hostages Win Legal Case Against UK Government & British Airways Tastes Great, Less Filling? Report On Meta Plan For Cheaper, Fully AI-Made Ads Boosts Tech Giant's Stock As Media Agency Shares Slump Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Get D.C.'s Acclaim At The AI Honors Ceremony 'If we as a large organization spend our resources fighting for IP rights I can't fathom how a small producer keeps up,' she added. 'Protecting copyright is a very big issue in AI and some consequences of the opt out are impossible to police.' Speaking at the Deloitte and Enders Media & Telecoms 2025 and Beyond Conference this morning, Strong said 'it's hard to keep the genie back in the bottle.' Within Sky, however, she said AI has become a 'cultural movement,' and she pointed out how much Sky is using the tech to improve both systems and also programme making. Strong talked up Sky's place in the sports world, saying that the pay-TV giant has increased its volume by 50%. 'I say we get the Olympics on screen every weekend in terms of the average number of games we are giving customers,' she added. 'There is more range and choice.' She was speaking upon the launch of a new Sky Glass Air TV for £6 per month, which comes out next week. Strong was speaking at the Deloitte Conference just prior to BBC boss Tim Davie, Netflix EMEA chief Larry Tanz and UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Everything We Know About 'Happy Gilmore 2' So Far
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4 days ago
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Trump Sued By PBS To Stop $500M Funding Cut
First it was NPR and now PBS is punching back legally at Donald Trump's desire to slash funding to public broadcasters. In an 'injunctive and other expedited relief' seeking document jus filed in federal court in the District of Columbia, the Public Broadcast Service and Northern Minnesota Public TV (Lakeland PBS) are declaring Trump's Executive Order of May 1, 2025 to be illegal and unconstitutional. More from Deadline Diddy Pardon: Donald Trump "Certainly" Would Consider Clemency For Sean Combs As Old Pal Faces Sex-Trafficking Trial & Life Behind Bars Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Get D.C.'s Acclaim At The AI Honors Ceremony Donald Trump Urges Judge Not To Dismiss CBS '60 Minutes' Lawsuit As Paramount And POTUS Teams Talk Settlement Inked with much fanfare, Trump's executive order of earlier this month directed federal agencies and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt federal funding for NPR and PBS, as the president has alleged that the entities trafficked in 'left-wing propaganda.' Sorry Mr. President, but that's not the point says PBS, in so many words. 'A recent survey of a politically representative sample of U.S. adults (conducted by YouGov) showed that PBS is the number one most trusted institution in the United States, as compared to video streaming services, commercial cable television, news publications, commercial broadcast television, the federal government, Congress, courts of law, and social media platforms,' today's generally understated complaint asserts. 'The same survey found that PBS is the most trusted news network.' That's the tone, then there's the law. 'Regardless of any policy disagreements over the role of public television, our Constitution and laws forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the content of PBS's programming, including by attempting to defund PBS,' reads the 51-page complaint filed by DC law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to hit home with its point PBS gets around $500 million a year from the feds, which is about 15% of its operating budget. Reading very much like the suit NPR hit the MAGA White House with three days ago, the former home of Big Bird and Downton Abbey goes on to say in their own suit that 'if allowed to stand, the EO would override Congress's decision to remove the administration of federal funding for public television from the government's editorial purview.' Framing the matter as a clear attack on the freedom of speech as well the American system of checks and balances, the complaint adds: And it would have profound impacts on the ability of PBS and PBS Member Stations to provide a rich tapestry of programming to all Americans. PBS and Lakeland PBS bring suit to preserve their ability to serve their viewers and communities without political interference, as both Congress and the First Amendment mandate.' Deadline reached out to the White House for comment on the new suit. Just like the NPR complaint, the PBS action named Trump, Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget; Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. Additionally, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noam and DHS itself are named here, as are the soon to shuttered Department of Education and Sec. Linda McMahon, acting FEMA boss David Richardson and that agency. A line-up that makes one think of one of the great lines from Dame Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Granthamon on Downton: 'It always happens when you give these little people power, it goes to their heads like strong drink.' Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More Everything We Know About Netflix's 'The Thursday Murder Club' So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
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4 days ago
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Diddy Pardon: Donald Trump 'Certainly' Would Consider Clemency For Sean Combs As Old Pal Faces Sex-Trafficking Trial & Life Behind Bars
Sean 'Diddy' Combs is facing life behind bars if found guilty in his sex-trafficking trial, but old pal Donald Trump today hinted he could prove the 'All About the Benjamins' performer's pardoning guardian angel – maybe. 'I would certainly look at the facts if I think somebody was mistreated, whether they like me or don't like me,' Trump said in the Oval Office when asked if he would pardon the currently under trial Diddy. 'It wouldn't have any impact on me,' Trump added, teasing the situation out as he loves to do. More from Deadline Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Get D.C.'s Acclaim At The AI Honors Ceremony "I Didn't Want To Die Or Get Hurt" Sean "Diddy" Combs' Ex-Aide Says Of Not Telling Anyone About Rapes By Bad Boy Records Founder Donald Trump Urges Judge Not To Dismiss CBS '60 Minutes' Lawsuit As Paramount And POTUS Teams Talk Settlement Listening to his defense lawyer Brian Steel cross-exam his former personal assistant 'Mia,' Combs was in court in New York City today as he has been at almost every hearing since being arrested last fall and since this criminal trial started on May 12. Facing off against the tumultuous but powerful U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, the much-accused Combs is up against on racketeering, sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution and more, charges. Just a few feet away from Combs himself and the jury of eight men and four women, 'Mia' told the lower Manhattan courtroom that she was raped multiple times by the Bad Boy Records founder. That testimony is very similar to that of previous witness and ex-Combs girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who spoke at grueling length on the violence and filmed sex marathon 'freak-offs' she says she was forced to participate in over the couple's decade long relationship. Like other witness in the trial, 'Mia' also spoke of watching Combs beat, abuse and manipulate Ventura, as he did to many of the people in his orbit. Insisting that 'no one has asked' for a pardon for Combs yet, Trump went on to say 'I know people are thinking about it.' With a nod to the increasing rumors of outreach from Combs' crew to Trump's team, the former Apprentice host added: 'I know they're thinking about it. I think people have been very close to asking.' Always one to reward friends, armed supporters and donors, Trump recently gave pardons to Todd and Julie Chrisley, the reality show stars who were sentenced in 2022 after fraud and tax evasion convictions. 'I'd look at what's happening, and I haven't been watching it too closely, although it's certainly getting a lot of coverage,' Trump stated Friday at the White House of the intensively profiled Diddy trial. 'I haven't seen him. I haven't seen him. I haven't spoken to him in years. He used to really like me a lot, but I think when I ran for politics, sort of that relationship busted up.' Other than the Combs question, facing a just published New York Times expose of Elon Musk's ketamine and other drug use, Trump's Oval Office farewell to his top donor and Department of Government Efficiency chief became another freewheeling exercise in deflection and softballs. To put that exercise in perspective, when querried about the Gray Lady's story that last year on the campaign trail stumping for Trump, the world's richest man had been 'using drugs far more intensely than previously known,' Musk flipped the question to an attack on the NYT. Mocking the paper over its investigative coverage of Vladimir Putin and Russia's interference in the 2016 Presidential election and more and a recent court ruling over their Pulitzer Prize on the topic. Musk quipped: 'That New York Times? Let's move on.' And the press corp did, with no one asking a follow up question. With questions about martial advice for French President Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden's mental state from a carefully curated press pool, the softballs represented a clear example the squeeze the media has gotten from this White House and the injection of MAGA supporting outlets. The few serious questions about tariffs, banning foreign students in Ivy League universities, the war in Ukraine, and a Middle East ceasefire got short shrift from Trump and Musk and more partisan rhetoric. Covered live by all the cable news networks and streamed on multiple feeds on multiple platforms, Trump and Musk's mutual admiration club saw POTUS seated at the Resolute desk reading in great part from a binder in front of him while the SpaceX boss loomed over Trump in his traditional all-black uniform with 'Dogefather' t-shirt and a MAGA ballcap uniform. Starting a bit later than its scheduled 1:30 p.m. ET time, the bulk of the presser was more a meandering Trump monologue of half-truths, outright lies and falsehoods, the 'rigged' 2020 election, Biden autopen and the usual greatest hits, with some Oval Office redecoration praise tossed in from a fast and loose with the facts Musk. About to hit the deadline on his time as an official advisor to Trump, Musk announced earlier this week he would leave his controversial role in the administration to refocus on his stock market and sales huritng businesses. Under regulations around financial disclosure and more, an individual like Musk can only serve as special government employees a period not exceeding 130 days per year. Perceived to be crossing the line ethically with benefits to his companies from his administration position and close proximity to Trump, Musk's chainsaw approach became the opposite of an exercise in cost saving and a clown show in execution. Promising to save the taxpayers up to $2 trillion dollars, Musk and his DOGE crew claimed in the end to bring in around $175 billion. More than a few analysts actually pegged the number at closer to $16 billion. Not chump change on any level, but a number dwarfed by the estimated expenditures of Trump and Project 2025 to add up to $5 trillion to the already ballooning federal deficit Even today, Musk swore that DOGE would cut and save $1 trillion from the federal government. Combs' trial is expected to last another four weeks. Working on a 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. ET daily schedule, with wiggle room to go an hour longer here and there if required, Judge Arun Subramanian has promised the jury they will be done by July 4 – exactly when a round of Independence Day pardons could be coming from Trump. Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More Everything We Know About Netflix's 'The Thursday Murder Club' So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery
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NBC Pulls Viral Chinese Paraglider Video Over Concerns It Was AI Generated
A dramatic video described as showing a Chinese paraglider surviving an unplanned 8,500m (27,000 ft) ascent and subzero temperatures has been pulled from the website of NBC News over concerns that it may be AI generated. In a note on its news site, the network said: 'NBC News has determined that some of the footage provided by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV and distributed by Reuters that appeared in our initial coverage was AI-generated. We have removed this video and are continuing to report on the veracity of the story. This note will be updated in due course.' More from Deadline Artificial Intelligence Influencers To Get D.C.'s Acclaim At The AI Honors Ceremony New York Times, Amazon Unveil AI Content Licensing Deal Netflix Co-Founder Reed Hastings Joins Board Of AI Firm Anthropic The network was among thousands of news organizations worldwide to have posted the video in recent days, ranging from the UK's BBC and to France's TF1 to the websites of newspapers such as The Guardian and The New York Times. According to the story which broke earlier this week the video is described as showing 55-year paraglider Peng Yujiang's terrifying ascent after his equipment became caught in an updraft known as a 'cloud suck'. The video, which features Peng battling with strong winds and then looking dazed and frostbitten above the clouds, was first posted on Chinese video-sharing App Douyin, the country's version of TikTok. The footage was then licensed by Chinese State TV network CCTV and a number of other viral video distributors. Concerns over the footage come amid growing challenges for news organizations around AI-generated video and authenticating real footage. With a question mark hanging over the authenticity of the video, the veracity of the story is also being re-investigated. In a separate story, NBC said it had reached out to several social media accounts connected to Peng but had not received a response. Deadline has contacted NBC and a number of other news outlets which posted the material for comment, as well as CCTV, but has not received a response from any of the organizations. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Netflix's 'The Thursday Murder Club' So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
