As with all streaming workflows, AI has steadily crept into the live streaming technology stack. In some cases, the impact is incremental, in others, profound. From production to monetization, here's ...

In late February, the British singer-songwriter Benedict Cork posted a snippet of himself playing a soulful new song called “Something Kinda Strange.” The clip quickly racked up more than 100,000 ...

North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive streaming royalty fraud scheme on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and ...

The extraordinarily high concurrence of viewership with tentpole live streams complicates every aspect of content production and delivery, and ad insertion is especially hard to scale, according to ...

Michael Smith, a 54-year-old North Carolina man whom federal prosecutors accused of defrauding music-streaming services with AI-generated songs, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit ...

The streaming landscape of 2026 is no longer defined by hardware specs or camera angles, but by the fluidity of AI integration. With ElevenLabs evolving from simple TTS to low-latency voice agents, ...

Tonight, in “Damn, those folks at the Crime Factory sure do love to whip up something new, huh?” news: A North Carolina man has just become the first person in the United States to plead guilty to a ...

China’s Netflix, iQiyi, is making one of the biggest bets in streaming history. The company wants AI to create the bulk of its films and shows someday soon, and it’s already restructuring its ...

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