The UK digital entertainment sector hit £13.5 billion in revenue in 2025, reflecting a 7.1% year-over-year growth, significantly outpacing the general economy's growth rate of 1.3%.
Last October, PayPal an integration with OpenAI so that ChatGPT users could transact within the app. Apparently, PayPal is now ready to take that idea to other retailer chatbots. Of course, now that ChatGPT is making its foray into advertising , other LLMs and chatbots are bound to follow suit, if they haven't already done so. Walmart, for instance, rolled out ads in its generative AI agent Sparky earlier this month.
Traits I look for in a large TV include good brightness and contrast, advanced local dimming (read: good backlighting) to reduce light bleed from bright objects on dark backgrounds, accuracy to the director's intent, and impressive color saturation, especially for HDR (High Dynamic Range) content.
In a February 2 notification sent to relevant customers, the cloud giant says it is updating its Service Terms to specify it does not have "defense or payment obligations for third-party patent claims against you related to use of these services for audio/video encoding, decoding, or transcoding." The services in question are AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, Amazon Interactive Video Service, Chime SDK, Amazon GameLift Streams, and Amazon Kinesis Video Services.
In today's hectic and fast-paced world, technology has made it possible to be in multiple places at once and greatly increased our productivity. However, missing out on a limited-time showing or live broadcast can still cause anger and frustration. There's a simple and obvious solution in the form of DVRs or Digital Video Recorders, so you can enjoy all the thrill of watching your favorite sports team without the annoying commercials.
It typically sits at $80, but you can now snap it up for $100 at the retailer, after a modest 20% drop. The offer applies to both Haze and Porcelain models, so you can pick the one that suits your aesthetics the best. Just note that the offer is selling out fast (as you'd expect), so you don't really have a lot of time left to save. Grab it before the price shoots back up!
But that's unlikely to put a hold on M&A activity among major TV and streaming companies. The first question becomes what do WBD's spurned suitors do in response? Paramount and Comcast's NBCUniversal are unlikely to pair up given the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's broadcast ownership rules (and the U.S. government's antagonistic relationship toward Comcast). But there are (much) smaller targets on the market: A+E Global Media, AMC Networks, Lionsgate, Starz, etc.