The News/Media Alliance (NMA), which represents the main news media industry trade association, has signed a partnership with visual generative AI infrastructure Bria allowing NMA members to opt into an AI licensing agreement with the AI-generating content platform. The partnership will also form the foundation for a new Bria product in development designed "to ensure reliable, grounded AI-generated outputs based on participating publishers’ owned content."

For the NMA, which represents aroun...

ChatGPT parent company OpenAI will shut down its AI-powered short video generation app Sora, signaling a shift in priorities from the AI company. The company announced the closure of the app on social media: "We’re saying goodbye to Sora. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work," reads a post from OpenAI on X. OpenAI is reportedly shifting resources to more lucrative coding, reasoning or text-generation tasks. The Wall Street Journal sai...

Streaming service Anghami and AI-powered metadata platform Cyanite have sealed a partnership to enhance music discovery with AI-powered metadata. Cyanite's scalable metadata infrastructure will power personalisation and discovery and provide more opportunities for Anghami users to discover music from the region. Anghami will integrate Cyanite's auto-tagging API to enhance its 2.5 million songs-strong catalogue with detailed audio-based metadata across mood, genre, energy, instrumentation, and m...