Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) is building a new production organisation that puts artificial intelligence at the centre of content creation. Beast Industries is recruiting a leader to oversee an AI-native production model, aiming to treat AI as the foundation rather than a support tool. The job posting reflects goals to automate processes and produce more content faster as spending control and efficiency become key tasks. The company has about 750 employees and the channel has about 479 million subscribers.

Naver Webtoon, Kakao Entertainment and other major South Korean webtoon rights holders, working with the Copyright Overseas Promotion Association (COA), have shut down the Spanish-language piracy site TuMangaOnline and multiple related sites, they said on April 27. The action was carried out by Spanish judicial authorities and is described as the first case in which Korean rights holders directly responded overseas under local law and achieved results. The case is heading toward the opening of a formal criminal trial.