AppleAnthropic, and other major artificial intelligence (AI) firms have reportedly trained AI models on data from hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos. A new report claims that multiple AI companies used a publicly available dataset called Pile which contained the plain text of videos’ subtitles without any video imagery. The data was collected from popular … Read more
Google and Meta reportedly struck a deal to make and show ads targeted at minor users. A report claims that the Mountain View-based tech giant was working on a marketing project to develop ads that would run on its YouTube platform. These ads were being made for Meta’s photo and video-sharing platform Instagram and were … Read more
YouTube Music is reportedly getting a new feature that will allow users to share their personal radio with others. As per the report, the new feature will make the user’s personal radio sharable, and others can add it to their playlists. Notably, the personal radio feature has been a part of the app for quite … Read more
Gemini for Android is getting two new features that will allow users to ask questions about their smartphone’s current screen. Dubbed ‘Ask about this screen’ and ‘Ask about this video’, these tools capture a screenshot and process the content of the screen. Then, when prompted by the user, it can answer with relevant information that … Read more
Apple Music is getting a new cross-platform feature which will allow users to transfer their playlists to YouTube Music. Although the Cupertino-based tech giant highlights that playlists can be transferred to “another service”, only YouTube Music is currently supported. However, users will only be able to transfer the playlists which are self-created or created collaboratively. … Read more
Google announced on Tuesday that there were new ways for users to find out whether an image was created using generative artificial intelligence (AI). While the tech giant has been working on developing internal tools to watermark AI-generated content, it also joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as a steering committee member … Read more
YouTube Shopping was launched in India on Friday, as the Alphabet-owned video streaming platform expands monetisation options offered to video creators in the country. The affiliate marketing program was previously launched in countries like South Korea and the US, and the company says eligible creators will be able to tag brands in their videos. YouTube Shopping … Read more
YouTube Shorts is set to introduce a redesigned video editor alongside new tools aimed at improving the process of creating content on the platform. Users will soon able to create videos with edits synced to the beat of the music track they have selected, or add image stickers from their smartphone’s gallery app. The service … Read more
YouTube first began testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for Shorts dubbed Dream Screen in June. The feature could earlier generate AI-powered image backgrounds for the vertical short video format, but on Thursday, the company announced a new capability. Dream Screen can now generate video backgrounds alongside image backgrounds allowing users more creative freedom … Read more
Google and Meta reportedly struck a deal to make and show ads targeted at minor users. A report claims that the Mountain View-based tech giant was working on a marketing project to develop ads that would run on its YouTube platform. These ads were being made for Meta’s photo and video-sharing platform Instagram and were … Read more