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Get Ready to See More AI on YouTube

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-09-21 05:45:59

More AI slop may be headed to YouTube. The video-sharing platform is jumping on the AI bandwagon with a new batch of AI-powered tools for content creators. The company announced on Tuesday that users will now be able to use AI to more easily edit videos, generate short clips, and even protect their likeness from other AI tools. The updates come as YouTube and its parent company, Google, race to catch up with other AI companies like OpenAI. Last month, Google updated its AI image model, unoffic

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TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 16:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-30 21:08:39

Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself. Where earlier media relied on polished narratives (films with arcs, shows with seasons), TikTok turned culture into a never-ending feedb

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AI Video Generators Are Here: Everything in OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo 3 and Midjourney

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-06 14:00:06

First came the AI chatbots, then the AI image generators. Now, tech companies are rushing to release AI video generators. During the past year, nearly every major tech company has dropped some kind of AI video model. Between Google's Veo 3, Midjourney and Sora, it's quickly become a crowded market. AI videos are a huge leap forward in a company's AI creative offerings, and they're something worth keeping an eye on as generative AI becomes a bigger part of the content we create and see online. T

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Adobe to bring its video editing app Premiere to iPhones

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-10 09:00:00

Adobe is planning to bring its video editing software, Premiere, to the iPhone. The company has listed the app on the App Store with a pre-order link and an expected release date of September 30. The company said that Premier on iPhone will let users edit videos and export them without any watermarks. The app will have some of the same features as its desktop version, including the ability to trim, layer and fine-tune frames. It will also have automatic captions with stylized subtitles, support

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Disney Settles FTC Complaint With YouTube Over Children's Data Collection

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 04:36:00

Disney will pay a $10 million penalty for mislabeling videos on YouTube and allowing personal data to be collected from children without notifying parents or getting their consent, the FTC said in an announcement. The complaint filed in a US District Court, the FCC said, alleged that Disney uploaded videos to YouTube in channels that defaulted to "Not Made For Kids" when the videos should have been labeled "Made For Kids." Due to the mislabeling, videos intended for children collected more inf

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Disney to pay $10M to settle claims it collected kids’ data on YouTube

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-12 13:13:18

Disney will pay $10 million to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it mislabeled videos for children on YouTube, which allowed the collection of kids' personal information without their consent or notification to their parents. This occurred after the entertainment giant failed to tag kid-directed videos on YouTube as "Made for Kids" (MFK), a label that instructs the video streaming platform to block personal data collection and stop serving personalized ads on correctly des

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Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC claim it used cartoons to collect YouTube data on kids

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-13 07:01:35

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it violated federal law by misleadingly labeling cartoons on YouTube so it could illegally collect children’s personal data. The FTC alleges that Disney failed to label some videos of

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Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC complaint that it collected children's data on YouTube

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 17:36:47

The Federal Trade Commission announced that Disney will pay $10 million to settle allegations that the entertainment giant allowed data collection on YouTube videos meant for children. Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, also known as COPPA , companies are required to notify parents and obtain parental consent if they collection information from minors. According to the FTC complaint, Disney failed to properly label some YouTube videos as "Made for Kids," which allowed the compa

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Microsoft found a way to let you play YouTube in the background on Android, without Premium

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 21:57:59

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Edge browser for Android that lets you play videos in the background. The feature can be enabled through the Edge flags page. It works on YouTube, so you can play YouTube videos in the background. Edge Canary for Android also offers a built-in ad blocker that works on YouTube. One of the main benefits of subscribing to the $14 YouTube Premium plan is that it allows you to play videos in the background. But you mig

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TikTok is now letting everyone DM each other with voice memos and pictures

theverge.com Sean Hollister 2025-10-18 09:53:06

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Every platform wants to be the place you hang with friends — even Spotify as of this week — so it’s apparently time for TikTok to shore up its direct messaging feature! It told TechCrunch that over the next few weeks, all users should see voice messages

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Send some love to these great Android Authority channels with YouTube hype

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-20 13:03:54

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube’s “hype” feature is now live in 39 countries, including the US. Videos will now have a dedicated hype button that sits under the media player. Users can filter their Home feed with the new hyped category. There are countless creators on YouTube, which can make it difficult for smaller channels to get the kind of attention their videos deserve. Especially when you factor in the giant multi-million subscriber channels that tend to crowd out everyone

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YouTube’s ‘Hype’ feature that boosts smaller creators launches globally

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-25 20:33:49

YouTube’s “Hype” feature, which allows fans to help their favorite creators get discovered, is rolling out globally, the company announced Tuesday. First introduced at Google’s Made on YouTube event in 2024, the feature — a dedicated button that appears below the existing “like” button — will become available on videos from creators with fewer than 500,000 subscribers. The feature is now available across 39 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and India. Viewers have t

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Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-26 00:21:22

A startup called Skylight is taking a different approach to short-form video. Instead of restricting users to an algorithmic main feed, as is common on social apps, Skylight is building a community around human curators who post and repost videos to build out their own custom feeds others can subscribe to. The option, which launched on Monday in the version 2.0 release of the app, could appeal to users who feel a growing sense of unease about traditional social media platforms and their algorit

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Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it’s on purpose

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-26 16:07:03

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has been secretly upscaling Shorts by certain creators without their consent. Creators have not been offered any notification or given any option to disable upscaling. The team has clarified that it is using “traditional machine learning” to denoise and unblur videos. YouTube was founded 20 years ago and has gone through significant changes over this period, especially in video quality. More recently, however, it is experimenting with forced upsca

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YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 05:37:15

YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connection with real life? Rick Beato's face just didn't look right. "I was like 'man, my hair looks strange', he says. "And the closer I looked it almost seemed like I was wearing makeup." Beato runs a YouTube channel with over five million subscribers, where he's made nearly 2,000 videos exploring the world of music. Something seemed off in one of his

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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 13:35:49

Manim is an engine for precise programmatic animations, designed for creating explanatory math videos. Note, there are two versions of manim. This repository began as a personal project by the author of 3Blue1Brown for the purpose of animating those videos, with video-specific code available here. In 2020 a group of developers forked it into what is now the community edition, with a goal of being more stable, better tested, quicker to respond to community contributions, and all around friendlie

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Police investigating death of French streamer seize equipment and videos

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-04 09:36:45

Police investigating death of French streamer seize equipment and videos On Tuesday, French government minister Clara Chappaz described Mr Graven's death as an "absolute horror", adding he had been "humiliated" for months. He was found dead at a residence in a village north of the southern French city of Nice on Monday. Raphaël Graven, also known as Jeanpormanove, was known for videos on the platform Kick in which he endured apparent violence and humiliation. Police investigating the death o

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YouTube Is Drowning in AI Slop Channels

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-10 02:00:58

YouTube is nothing without its advertisers. The beating heart of the video platform, big box companies have been locked in a historic game of Whac-a-Mole against low-quality YouTube content, which they say leads to a lowered perception of brands when paired with their ads. In the past, these high-risk videos took the form of right-wing conspiracy theorists, medical misinformation, and child exploitation. Now, in 2025, it's AI slop. Recent reporting by The Guardian details the staggering rise

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You’re not making the most of YouTube and YouTube Premium if you’re not using this trick

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-18 12:00:59

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Back in April, I watched dozens of YouTube videos about Budapest before traveling there. When I returned home, my YouTube home page was still full of Budapest videos, and although I haven’t clicked on any since then, I still get them in my recommendations to this day. The same happened when I obsessed over lawnmowers before buying one, and the Ninja Woodfire grill before I splurged on it. YouTube keeps recommending videos for things I was momentarily intrigued

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Cassette brings VHS nostalgia to your iPhone’s camera roll

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-11-19 17:14:25

Developer Devin Davies is out with a new app today that can add a nostalgic twist to videos saved on your iPhone. Cassette, which is available on the App Store today, is described as a “VHS player for your home videos.” Cassette pulls in videos from the Photos app on your iPhone, grouping them by year and album and presenting them as separate VHS tapes. You can choose to browse through your library of videos manually, or you can tap the “Take Me Somewhere” button at the bottom to watch a random

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Cassette’s new app turns your videos into retro, VHS-like home movies

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-20 08:26:54

Longing for the nostalgia of watching home movies, like in the VHS days, but stuck with all your personal videos saved on an iPhone? Sure, you can AirPlay them to the TV, but the experience is not the same. This struggle inspired developer Devin Davies to create Cassette, a new iOS app that plays back videos in a format similar to VHS, making your iPhone videos feel more like old home recordings. To use the app, you virtually “load” one of the tapes laid out across the screen by selecting the y

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Toymaker suddenly drops lawsuit against “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-24 16:40:23

A toy company has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against a popular TikTok and Instagram account called "Sylvanian Drama." Epoch Company Ltd., is the US maker of adorable fuzzy dolls called Calico Critters. Those dolls are known as "Sylvanian Families" in other markets, and more recently, they became a viral sensation after an Ireland-based content creator, Thea Von Engelbrechten, started making funny videos in which the dolls acted out dark, cringey adult storylines. Claiming that the "Sylv

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It's Time I Admit I'm a Disney Adult and These New Disney Plus Videos Helped Me Realize That

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-28 11:00:05

"It's just that you don't look like a Disney adult," a friend of mine recently said after I told her how much I love Disney World. "Thank you," I replied, because the term "Disney adult" is usually said in a pejorative way, and even I cast judgment on it. But we Disney people are not all alike. I don't own a single piece of clothing adorned with Mickey or Minnie. However, I can tell you where you can buy a Dole Whip in every park and I could ride a monorail all day long. I have always hesitated

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Yes, you can edit video like a pro on Linux - here are my 4 go-to apps

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-30 22:19:05

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Linux has several high-quality video editors. You'll find some pro-level and some built for consumers. The best-in-class goes to DaVinci Resolve. I've been filming and editing videos for a long time. When I first started, I worked with software that was user-friendly but incapable of producing professional-level videos. Slowly, I climbed the ladder. Now I feel like the tools I have are worthy of being taken seriously. That's not to say tho

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Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 03:03:31

Starchive A browser extension and local backend system that automatically archives YouTube videos when visited. The system consists of a Firefox extension that detects YouTube video pages and a Go backend that downloads the videos using yt-dlp. Components Backend (Go) HTTP Server ( main.go ): Runs on port 3009 with two endpoints: / : Basic health check endpoint /youtube : POST endpoint that accepts video IDs and triggers downloads ( ): Runs on port 3009 with two endpoints: Video Downloader

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TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking enhancement, plus new parental controls

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-10 20:23:47

Video streaming platform TikTok is finally introducing community fact-checking, in the form of TikTok Footnotes – the equivalent to X’s Community Notes. This is initially available in the US only. The company has also announced new parental controls, aimed at giving oversight of both TikTok consumption and uploads by teens … Community Notes have played a valuable role on the social network formerly known as Twitter. Hoaxes and disinformation has been a growing problem on X, and the Community N

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Your Next Yelp Reviews May Include an AI Video -- With a Catch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 05:07:00

The next time you visit Yelp on your phone to check out reviews on the newest eatery, you may be greeted by an AI-generated video. Yelp is rolling out artificial intelligence videos to Yelp's home page feed on its iOS app. The AI videos use large language models to grab text from reviews on an establishment and turn it into an AI-voiced narration (courtesy of ElevenLabs) and captions (courtesy of Amazon Transcribe). Then Yelp uses uploaded photos from user reviews to create a slideshow-like dis

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Your Next Yelp Reviews May Include an AI Video – With a Catch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-13 11:07:07

The next time you visit Yelp on your phone to check out reviews on the newest eatery, you may be greeted by an AI-generated video. Yelp is rolling out artificial intelligence videos to Yelp's home page feed on its iOS app. The AI videos use large language models to grab text from reviews on an establishment and turn it into an AI-voiced narration (courtesy of ElevenLabs) and captions (courtesy of Amazon Transcribe). Then Yelp uses uploaded photos from user reviews to create a slideshow-like dis

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A guide to using Edits, Meta’s CapCut rival for short-form video editing

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-12-14 12:17:11

Meta recently released a new video editing app for creators called Edits. The new app is designed to rival ByteDance’s CapCut, a popular short-form video-editing app used by many creators. Meta first shared that it was working on Edits back in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores when the TikTok ban momentarily went into effect. Although the app has since come back online and is available to download, TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, so Meta is rea

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Latest Tech News

Get Ready to See More AI on YouTube

TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

TikTok won. Now everything is 60 seconds

AI Video Generators Are Here: Everything in OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo 3 and Midjourney

Adobe to bring its video editing app Premiere to iPhones

Disney Settles FTC Complaint With YouTube Over Children's Data Collection

Disney to pay $10M to settle claims it collected kids’ data on YouTube

Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC claim it used cartoons to collect YouTube data on kids

Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC complaint that it collected children's data on YouTube

Microsoft found a way to let you play YouTube in the background on Android, without Premium

TikTok is now letting everyone DM each other with voice memos and pictures

Send some love to these great Android Authority channels with YouTube hype

YouTube’s ‘Hype’ feature that boosts smaller creators launches globally

Skylight’s TikTok alternative adds community curators to the mix

Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it’s on purpose

YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission

Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos

Police investigating death of French streamer seize equipment and videos

YouTube Is Drowning in AI Slop Channels

You’re not making the most of YouTube and YouTube Premium if you’re not using this trick

Cassette brings VHS nostalgia to your iPhone’s camera roll

Cassette’s new app turns your videos into retro, VHS-like home movies

Toymaker suddenly drops lawsuit against “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker

It's Time I Admit I'm a Disney Adult and These New Disney Plus Videos Helped Me Realize That

Yes, you can edit video like a pro on Linux - here are my 4 go-to apps

Browser extension and local backend that automatically archives YouTube videos

TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking enhancement, plus new parental controls

Your Next Yelp Reviews May Include an AI Video -- With a Catch

Your Next Yelp Reviews May Include an AI Video – With a Catch

A guide to using Edits, Meta’s CapCut rival for short-form video editing

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