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YouTube will limit fitness and weight video recommendations to European teens
YouTube has introduced additional safeguards for teens on its website, which includes limiting the content they see that could lead them to form negative beliefs about themselves.
A new AI support chatbot is available for hacked YouTube channels
YouTube's newest security features can help you access your account if it's been cracked by hackers.
Streaming hit multiple new viewership records in July, Nielsen reports
Streaming posted another banner month in July, reaching multiple new milestones in the latest issue of The Gauge report from Nielsen.
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died
She was 56 years old.
YouTube invites users to test its community notes feature
YouTube is testing its community notes feature with a select group of users.
NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission
In the latest example of a troubling pattern in the tech industry, Nvidia appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI training. The $2.4 trillion company reportedly asked workers to download videos from YouTube, Netflix and other datasets to develop commercial AI projects.
Apple apologizes for another ad that missed the mark
Apple's latest ad in its Underdogs series is drawing criticism for its portrayal of Thailand.
TikTok's Sound Search lets you find videos by humming or singing
Sound Search lets users sing songs to find videos.
AI video startup Runway reportedly trained on ‘thousands’ of YouTube videos without permission
AI company Runway reportedly scraped “thousands” of YouTube videos and pirated versions of copyrighted movies without permission. Alleged spreadsheets of internal company data suggest Runway trained its Gen-3 model using YouTube content from Disney, Netflix, Pixar and popular media outlets.
Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models
The findings of the investigation spotlight AI’s uncomfortable truth: the technology is largely built on the backs of data siphoned from creators without their consent or compensation.
Streaming accounted for more than 40 percent of TV viewing in June
In June 2024, streaming was responsible for 40.3 percent of Americans' television viewing. YouTube and Netflix led the pack.
YouTube Music's latest features include 'hum to search' and AI-generated conversational radio
YouTube Music unveils new features like a ‘hum to search’ tool and AI-generated conversational radio. That last one is still in beta and only available to select users.
YouTube Shorts gets Instagram's 'Add yours' prompt stickers
YouTube is rolling out "Add yours" stickers on Shorts.
YouTube upgrades its 'erase song' tool to remove copyrighted music only
YouTube's upgraded "erase song" tool has the capability to remove music from video segments without deleting other audio.
YouTube film essay pioneers 'Every Frame a Painting' are back
Every Frame a Painting, a YouTube channel dedicated to posting video essays about movies, is back with a new series of videos and a short film.
YouTube Premium's new features include picture-in-picture for YouTube Shorts
YouTube has recently launched a bunch of new features for Premium subscribers, including a quick way to skip the more boring parts of a video.
YouTube reportedly wants to pay record labels to use their songs for AI training
YouTube is allegedly looking to pay music labels a sum of money to use their content for AI training.
YouTube’s community notes feature rips a page out of X’s playbook
YouTube is borrowing a page from X (Twitter) and adding a community notes feature ahead of the 2024 US election. The company wants the short viewer-created blurbs to add relevant context to videos, such as pointing out misinformation or old footage passed off as new.
YouTube is putting new age restrictions on gun videos
YouTube quietly snuck in a policy change that will age-restrict some gun-related videos and bar others altogether. Content featuring homemade and automatic firearms will be banned for viewers under 18, while tutorials for removing safety devices will be prohibited regardless of age.
You can now hum to find a song on YouTube Music for Android
YouTube Music for Android is releasing a tool that lets you hum a song to search for it. Users can also actually sing the tune or even play it on an instrument.

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