"This deal achieves important progress around AI protections, and progress is the name of the game," SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said in a statement. It also includes an immediate 15% pay increase and additional annual 3% boosts. The deal was approved by the artists with a 95% yes vote.

If ratified, the contract would formally end a nearly three-year-long effort from Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists negotiators to obtain a new contract for vide...