The Shanghai International Film Festival is programming over 400 films from 71 countries this year while adding VR works for the first time, all in service of what managing director Chen Guo calls using “cinema as a bond to deepen the exchange and mutual learning of film cultures among countries, nations, and regions.”

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has unveiled a new framework to operationalize the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, with a focus on "consent as a live signal" rather than a one-time checkbox.

According to a BCG report, Pocket FM is using generative AI across its content, localisation, and marketing pipeline, driving rapid global expansion, cutting production costs by up to 90%, and unlocking new revenue streams in markets like the US and Germany

Detecting artificial intelligence-generated content (deepfakes) using watermarking, hashing, or metadata tracking creates potential risks for privacy and online anonymity, the Consumer Unity and Trust Society– International (CUTS) points out in its recent report on content moderation in the age of AI.

Disney and Universal Studios have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the US District Court of California against Midjourney, a generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) company that allows users to create images, according to the complaint document seen by NPR.

With four to six minutes of ads per hour, Prime Video now sits squarely in the industry’s “middle tier” alongside services like Hulu and Paramount+, far below traditional linear TV, where ad time often reaches 13–16 minutes per hour.

Earlier this week, Japanese manga publisher Shueisha filed a DMCA subpoena application in the U.S., as it continues to pursue the operators of major pirate sites.

While HBO continues to patiently plot out the contours of its expanding world of Westeros—A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is slated for a 2026—House of the Dragon remains the only series to make it to air since Game of Thrones concluded in 2019. And in its two seasons, Ryan Condal’s Targaryen-focused series has achieved something remarkable: it has managed to carve out a distinct narrative path and emerge from the shadows of its predecessor with an identity and an aesthetic all its own.

The French Senate has passed a new anti-piracy bill that opens the door to automated IP-address blocking.