Jul 18, 2023
TikTok, Warner Music Group to partner in music licensing deal

(Reuters) - Warner Music Group, the record label conglomerate behind artists such as Radiohead, AC/DC and Madonna, has signed a licensing deal with Chinese short-video app TikTok to boost its social media revenues. The multi-year deal will help Warner Music's…

Jul 06, 2023
AI robots could play future role as companions in care homes

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and elderly, according to a professor who…

Jun 13, 2023
Meta releases ‘human-like’ AI image creation model

By Katie Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meta Platforms said on Tuesday that it would provide researchers with access to components of a new "human-like" artificial intelligence model that it said can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than…

Jun 09, 2023
U.S. House proposal would prohibit family seating fees

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. House committee will take up a aviation bill next week that would bar airlines from charging family seating fees but would not set minimum seat size requirements or impose new rules to compensate…

Jun 07, 2023
Hollywood actors, studios agree to media blackout for labor talks

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The SAG-AFTRA actors union and the group representing major Hollywood studios agreed not to talk to the media during contract talks that started on Wednesday. The actors' union is seeking pay increases and protections around the…

May 30, 2023
U.S. holiday air passenger travel tops 2019 pre-COVID levels

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. holiday air passenger travel topped 2019 pre-COVID levels over the Memorial Day weekend, which typically marks the start of the busy U.S. summer air travel season, figures from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA)…

May 24, 2023
‘Queen of rock ‘n’ roll’ Tina Turner dies at 83

By Mike Davidson (Reuters) -Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83. She died peacefully…

May 22, 2023
Regulators dust off rule books to tackle generative AI like ChatGPT

By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies and…