CNN builds in-house agent infrastructure as it prepares for AI-driven media trading

CNN is developing an agentic infrastructure as part of a broader roadmap that will see it begin transacting media by the first quarter of 2027. The news media company, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, expects to have finished scoping agentic protocols by the end of Q2, according to Faisal Karmali, CNN International Commercial’s vp of digital business operations. In Q3, it plans to test one or two