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Tubi’s New Scenes Feature Plays Clips To Help You Find Your Next Binge

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Yahoo! Tech reports: “Tubi, Fox’s free ad-supported streaming TV service (FAST), boasts a content library of more than 250,000 movies and TV episodes and 200 live TV channels, which makes finding something to watch a tricky proposition. Today, however, Tubi’s 81 million active users are getting a new way to help them find something to watch in the form of Scenes, a feature that serves up short clips of your favorite shows and movies on your mobile device.”

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Spotify Tests A Video Feature For Audiobooks As It Ramps Up Video Expansion

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TechCrunch reports: “Spotify is enhancing the audiobook experience for premium users through three new experiments: video clips, author pages, and the ability to add visuals that appear while users listen. These initiatives are part of Spotify’s effort to improve its audiobook offering and bring listeners closer to their favorite authors and stories.”

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Warner Bros. Discovery Bowing AI-Powered ‘Shop With Max’ Ad Technology Ahead Of Black Friday

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Media Play News reports: “Warner Bros. Discovery is rolling out new AI-powered interactive ad technology that enables streaming Max viewers to purchase, in real-time, select products marketed on select programming heading into the Black Friday (Nov. 29) retail weekend. Dubbed “Shop with Max,” and “Moments,” the technology affords Max subscribers the ability to purchase products placed within TV shows and movies using a QR code captured on a cellphone, without interrupting the content.”

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A+E Networks Alum Launches Aggie AI Platform To Help Small Businesses Manage Social Media

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Variety reports: “Greg Weinstein, a former top digital executive for A+E Networks and History Channel, has launched a new AI platform dubbed Aggie through its Audience Genomics data analytics and marketing firm serving Fortune 500 companies. The goal is to help small businesses manage their social media activity.”

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Cloud Streaming Beta Launches On PS Portal Via PlayStation Plus

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Games Industry Biz reports: “Sony is introducing support for cloud streaming on the PS Portal for PlayStation Plus subscribers. The news was shared on PlayStation’s blog a couple of days ago, with the feature still in beta for now and meaning users are able to play on the Portal without needing a PS5. A select number of titles from the PS Plus catalogue (over 120 PS5 games, the announcement said) are available to stream, up to 1080p/60fps.”

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Threads’ Custom Feeds Are Already Rolling Out

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The Verge reports: “Just five days after Meta started testing custom feeds in Threads, the company is already rolling them out to everyone. With custom feeds, you can track topics and accounts in one feed, making it easier to keep an eye on specific things that matter to you. To make a custom feed, search for a topic, then click on the three dots menu next to the search bar, and then click on the “Create new feed” option.”

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SoundCloud Adds More AI Tools And Signs Up For Ethics Pledge

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Music Ally reports: “SoundCloud is increasingly positioning itself as a bridge between its community of musicians and the world of AI startups. In January we reported on its deals with three AI startups: Fadr, Soundful and Voice-Swap. Now it has added six more tools to its roster of partnerships. Tuney is for remixing, editing and music generation), while Tuttii is an AI-powered remixing tool for licensed music. AIBeatz generates beats, while TwoShot can be used to create custom samples.”

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Shazam Tops 100 Billion Song Recognitions Since Launch

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Music Business Worldwide reports: “Apple-owned music identification app Shazam has announced a milestone, surpassing 100 billion song recognitions since its launch. Shazam notes that the number equates to approximately 12 songs identified for every person on the planet. To put it into perspective, Shazam says reaching this number would require an individual to use Shazam to identify a song every second for 3,168 consecutive years.”

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ChatGPT Search Is Finally Rolling Out To Free Users

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BGR reports: “A series of reports said recently that all the big AI companies are struggling with their next-gen models, OpenAI included. As a result, the expected GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT might see delays. However, all the big AI firms are continuing to launch new features for their existing models, and that includes OpenAI.”

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Comcast Spins Off MSNBC, Other Cable TV Networks

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Huffpost reports: “Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, on Wednesday announced the spinoff of many of its cable TV channels, including MSNBC, carrying out a plan the company had hinted at earlier this year. In addition to MSNBC, the portfolio of the newly created company titled “SpinCo” will also comprise CNBC, USA, Oxygen and E!, among other channels, as well as digital assets, including Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes. Those assets made about $7 billion in revenue in the year that ended Sept. 30, the company said in a press release.”

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