The reported plan for 1,000 further cuts at WPP tells a story bigger than restructuring: it marks the shift of a creative industry toward smaller, more integrated agencies built around artificial intelligence platforms.
John Ternus becomes the new CEO of Apple on September 1, 2026, while Tim Cook transitions to executive chairman. This historic succession places the iPhone, artificial intelligence, and hardware innovation at the heart of a new era.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have launched a massive legal offensive against Anthropic. Behind Claude lies the business model of generative AI and the remuneration of creators at the heart of a global battle.
The Venice Film Festival will present Be Brave, a documentary about Renzo Rosso shaped with artificial intelligence. Behind the experiment, fashion, cinema and business are testing a new grammar.
Kioxia and Sandisk plan more than $31 billion in investments in Japan through 2032. Behind flash memory factories, the entire industrial chain of artificial intelligence is being redrawn.
Nvidia generated $96.2 billion in revenue over three months, more than double from a year earlier. Behind this record, data centers and the global race for artificial intelligence are scaling up.
Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung is asking Chinese companies to aim for more technology-driven investments, from AI, 5G and semiconductors to rail and clean energy. Behind the appeal, Vietnam is refining its role as Asia's strategic workshop.
Australia will remove fully AI-generated tracks from the ARIA charts. Assisted creations remain eligible, but the industry now sets a decisive boundary between technological tool and synthetic artist.
Luxury houses are accelerating their use of artificial intelligence agents, but cybersecurity risks are changing scale. Between personalization, customer data, and legal responsibility, prestige must learn the discipline of control.
A class action accuses Twitch and Amazon of using creators' videos and conversations to train AI models without clear consent or compensation. The case goes beyond one platform: it asks what creative data is really worth.
Google is giving publishers a Preferred Sources button to embed on their sites. Behind the simple gesture, digital media faces a vital question: how do you recover traffic when AI answers before the link?
WildBrain, owner of brands such as Teletubbies and Yo Gabba Gabba!, is buying Personality AI. The deal opens a new battle: turning children's characters into safe, licensable, always-on AI experiences.
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