YouTube adds AI creator tools, from A/B testing to live dubbing
YouTube unveiled a wave of new creator tools, including AI-driven video feedback, dynamic thumbnails, and live auto-dubbing.
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YouTube is expanding its AI-powered 'Ask YouTube' conversational search into a shopping companion, following growth to over 140 million users in June.
YouTube Studio app gets new AI creator features
YouTube is expanding AI tools in its Studio app, including draft feedback, dynamic thumbnails, and a research feed for creators.
YouTube lets users build custom AI-powered feeds
YouTube is rolling out "custom feeds" that use Gemini AI to build a personalized video feed from a written description.
YouTube's 'Shorts series' brings episodic viewing to Shorts
YouTube introduced "Shorts series," letting creators organize Shorts into TV-style seasons and episodes with custom thumbnails.
LinkedIn adds tools to fight fake profiles and resume fraud
LinkedIn is rolling out new verification tools, including member vouching, to combat fake profiles and false work-history claims.
Spotify brings Taste Profile recommendation tool to the US
Spotify is rolling out its Taste Profile feature to US Premium subscribers, letting them see and edit how the app understands their taste.
Meta says Muse was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, built from scratch
Meta confirmed that its Muse AI app was "heavily inspired" as a product by OpenClaw, after users noticed the two shared nearly identical configuration files.
Waymo expands robotaxi access to teens as young as 13 in Nashville
Waymo will let teenagers as young as 13 use its robotaxi service in Nashville, its second city to offer teen accounts, as the Alphabet-owned company looks to reach a new group of riders.
Apple's retail pioneer doubts AI will take over shopping
Ron Johnson, who built Apple's retail stores, says AI will improve online shopping but won't replace how — or where — people actually shop.
Meta's Muse is outpacing ChatGPT's early mobile launch
Meta's new AI app Muse drew more downloads and daily users in its first 12 days than ChatGPT did after its own debut, according to Apptopia estimates.
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its site
Amazon began blocking Meta's AI assistant Muse from making purchases on Amazon.com, citing violations of its Conditions of Use for AI agents.
X will flag posts limited by government content demands
X said it will now tell users when their posts were shown to fewer people because of government content-filtering demands, expanding its "Under the Hood" transparency tool.
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a TikTok-style feed
Palo Alto startup ScrollEd, bootstrapped this year by Stanford and UPenn students, turns textbooks and PDFs into a swipeable video feed with quizzes.
AI "actress" Tilly Norwood stumbles through its press tour
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated "actress" offered for 75 simultaneous press interviews, appeared to malfunction and began speaking Chinese mid-interview with Piers Morgan and Tom Conti.
In India, new iPhones arrive via about 10-minute delivery apps
Quick-commerce apps in India delivered the new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max in about 10 minutes on launch day, tapping a market worth about $9 billion.
Google reshapes its CC agent into a household-management tool for families
Google has redesigned CC, an AI agent that previously delivered daily briefings, to focus on family household tasks like permission slips, shopping lists, and meal plans, now supporting up to six family members.
Meta's Muse AI assistant expands to Mac with computer-control features
Meta has brought its Muse AI assistant to Mac, where it can now interact with a user's files, messages, calendar, notes, and mail directly within their native apps.
A reviewer's honest verdict on Orion's $2,195 AI mattress pad
A TechCrunch reviewer tested Orion's $2,195 AI-enabled cooling mattress pad for months and, despite going in skeptical, says it has genuinely improved their sleep.
Pinterest tests AI room-redesign tool called Restyle
Pinterest is launching Restyle in beta in the US and Canada, an AI feature that lets users redesign their rooms with furniture and decor from their own photos.