In his opening remarks at WAVES 2025, the Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw shared that leading global technology companies including Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe will collaborate to build the Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) in Mumbai into a world-class institution that equips young creators with the skills and tools for the future.

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, hailed WAVES 2025 as a transformative global platform for India’s creative economy, highlighting its cultural power, tech integration, and $100 billion growth potential under PM Modi’s leadership.

On April 28, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) issued an office memorandum forming a multi-stakeholder committee to study how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with copyright law in India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the session and addressed the audience at WAVES 2025 inaugural ceremony. Later stars like Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan, Alia Bhatt will be seen expressing their views on various film production aspects.

Meta has announced the launch of a standalone Meta AI app, marking a significant step in its efforts to bring its conversational chatbot to more users outside its family of apps like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

More than 70 percent of all viewing in the first quarter of 2025 came on ad-supported platforms, a new Nielsen report finds.

The Prime Minister has reportedly set aside nearly 10 hours for WAVES where he will chair a meeting with CEOs and industry leaders from the media and entertainment sector.

YouTube is testing a new AI-generated video overview feature. The test feature creates a scrollable carousel of short video clips that appears right in YouTube’s search results.

The six-week summer series will feature the horror filmmakers' well-known titles, as well as early works and a few projects he inspired.