The online safety regulator's decision to walk away from a Federal Court battle with Elon Musk's X Corp is an initial win for the tech company in a legal fight that's far from over.
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The government will delay regulation promised to take effect from July this year, adding to frustration and uncertainty across the Australian screen sector.
The regulatory call puts the special broadcaster broadly in line with its commercial counterparts, which last month called on the ACCC to force AI firms to cite and pay publishers whose content is scraped to train AI models.
Netflix's Fair Work dispute with a senior employee has roots in long-running performance issues, the streaming company said in denying that a company restructure purposefully denied an employee her right to return to work from parental leave.
In an email to all staff on Thursday, Sneesby announced the scope of an independent review that will be conducted by the firm Intersection, following a fortnight-long crisis at the company.
The Nine chief executive has been in contact with directors ahead of a board meeting, as crisis envelops the company.
Sweeping changes to the company were announced to staff in an email from executive chairman Michael Miller on Wednesday, including the high-profile departure of news.com.au editor-in-chief, Lisa Muxworthy.
Lawyers have told Capital Brief any potential findings of broader cultural issues could leave Nine vulnerable to enforcement under new workplace laws passed in December.
The investigation, which staff from across Nine’s television news division were told would likely be conducted by an external firm, was announced along with a string of other initiatives including a new hotline.
Mike Sneesby has returned to Australia on the heels of a week of scandal for the company capped off by fresh allegations against former executive Darren Wick published in the pages of one of its own newspapers.
A crop of News Corp’s most influential global powerbrokers have been in Sydney this week for a round of annual budget meetings, as the company's Australian staff brace for job cuts.
Some directors of the country's largest domestic media company are aggrieved at the way a complaint against a former executive was handled.
News Corp's mega-deal with OpenAI is a watershed moment for the media giant, but the long-term benefits and risks for the company and the wider news industry remain unclear.
Australia's largest domestic media company told a private investor briefing it has been experimenting with generative AI to produce content in parts of its business and that it is in deal talks with Google.
The government may have hoped to win the front pages with coverage of a budget that delivers cost-of-living relief and a new interventionist agenda. It got something else.
The results come as much of the local media sector and its global peers continue to wrestle with ongoing weakness in the advertising market, which has been weighed down by tougher macroeconomic conditions.
The HBO parent is showing interest in launching Max in Australia with a telecommunications company as its primary partner, according to sources familiar with the talks.
A string of documents obtained by Capital Brief provide the most detailed account yet of what the government has called on the ACCC to provide and how, as it considers its next steps in Australia's standoff with Meta.
The uproar over the tech giant's ad for its latest iPad may be over the top, but it speaks to uneasiness about the AI revolution.
The head of Australia's largest domestic media company has criticised Facebook's parent Meta for walking away from deals with news publishers but declined to detail how the company would manage the fallout.
The regulatory call marks an escalation in the efforts of Australian media companies to chase payment from generative AI companies for the use of their content to train AI products.
Shares in the TV, publishing and digital media company are down 27.5% this year and trading near their lowest levels since the pandemic in mid-2020.
Bluey, the hit animated children’s show that forced cricket references upon Americans and is famously enjoyed by adults, was never meant to be a global hit, according to its creator.
TikTok has opted against replacing its most senior Australian executive despite mounting political and regulatory pressure on both sides of the Pacific.
