The creation of the task force follows Italy’s decision to ban ChatGPT earlier this month.

Max will combine the offerings on HBO Max and Discovery+, with three price tiers for users to choose from.

The figures represent a 32.5% increase in year-on-year growth, a significant rebound from the pandemic. The US remained the top recipient with £3.9bn of value.

The move comes as executives for Warner Bros Discovery are expected to reveal details about the new streaming service, ‘Max’, on Wednesday, writes Jack Benjamin.

In brief: NewsGuard will test chatbots’ performance in promoting or rejecting misinformation, with prompts drawn from a proprietary catalogue of more than 1,200 false narratives.

In brief: Microsoft says its goal is to “drive more traffic to publishers in this new world of search”.

Publishers have had potential revenues from their IP stolen from tech vendors, their trade bodies allege, and the problem may only become bigger with the rise of AI, writes Jack Benjamin.

PinkNews has hired Alice Beverton-Palmer in the newly-created role of head of creative strategy and platform partnerships and Nic Keaney as managing editor.

The Cohort will focus its support across three key areas: protecting journalists’ safety and security; advancing freedom of expression; and bolstering independent and diverse media.

The Association of Online Publishers has released an open letter accusing “unscrupulous” tech vendors of collecting and selling digital publishers’ first-party contextual audience data without their consent.