Instagram announced Wednesday it is launching a conversational AI assistant inside its Edits app, the CapCut rival, that analyzes a creator's account metrics like follows, views, retention and shares alongside comments and trending content to surface performance insights. Edits lead Brett Westervelt said the tool focuses on analysis rather than creative editing, leaving creative decisions to users, with usage capped unless creators subscribe to Meta One for more access.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-30
Instagram announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will include an AI 'creative assistant' that analyzes a creator's account data, including likes, views, retention and shares, to answer questions about content performance. The tool can suggest video hooks, captions, trending audio and scripts, and identify patterns behind why some posts succeed and others don't.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-30
Xtream Player has released version 1.7.50, adding Plex Live TV streaming and better movie/TV categorization for premium users, plus a full-screen mirror mode for the car display. The update also fixes M3U streaming bugs, improves YouTube playback quality, and resolves an issue where the ad-skip feature left videos stuck on a gray screen. According to Reddit comments, the new Plex Live TV feature is currently broken, though the developer says a fix is coming soon.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-29
YouTube automatically plays follow-up videos after a selected clip ends, choosing them based on a viewer's watch history. The setting is enabled by default for adult accounts, but users can toggle it off or back on in the app or website settings within a few steps.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-28
YouTube confirmed it has resolved an issue that caused missing thumbnails and blank gray or black spaces in Home, Subscriptions, and profile feeds on Android and iOS. The bug appeared over the weekend, following a separate freezing issue reported on Galaxy phones last week. YouTube says users still seeing blank gaps should force-quit and restart the app.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-28
Distributor Bleecker Street says YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X have all refused to run paid advertising for Alex Gibney's upcoming documentary 'Musk,' according to The Hollywood Reporter. YouTube, TikTok and Meta reportedly cited 'political content' policies as the reason for rejecting the ads.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-27
After reports that TikTok, Meta, YouTube and X had all declined to run paid ads for the trailer of Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk,' Meta and YouTube said the ads would now run. Meta called the initial rejection 'an error,' while YouTube said the ad had been 'temporarily restricted' by its system before being cleared after review. TikTok and X, whose owner Elon Musk publicly criticized Gibney, have not reversed their decisions.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-26
A new Show HN submission, 'Museum of Numbers,' documents cases where software hit hard-coded numeric limits, opening with the story of PSY's 'Gangnam Style' nearing 2,147,483,647 views on YouTube in December 2014. YouTube had already quietly upgraded its 32-bit view counter months earlier, but publicly framed the moment as a comedic near-miss with a spinning-digit Easter egg.
numbermuseum.com
· 2026-09-26
Major social platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram have reportedly declined to run an advertising campaign that referenced the name 'Musk.' The report does not specify the advertiser or the campaign's content, only that multiple platforms turned it down.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-26
Multiple Samsung Galaxy device owners, mostly using the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, report that YouTube videos freeze with audio still playing after switching away from the app and back. The issue has been discussed for weeks on a Korean Samsung community forum, with some users of the standard Z Fold 8 and Galaxy S26 Ultra also reporting similar problems. Samsung has not publicly responded to the reports.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-25
Google has expanded Gemini in Chrome so it can process video and audio content from websites outside YouTube, letting users get key takeaways and ask questions about that media. Unlike YouTube, where Gemini reads transcripts instantly, non-YouTube content must be played through fully before Gemini can analyze it. Google also added quiz generation from notes, webpages, or YouTube videos, plus a feature that preserves scroll position and partially filled forms when tabs are sent between devices.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-09-24
Google is updating Chrome so that tabs sent between devices now retain the exact scroll position and any partially filled forms, letting users resume reading or complete forms seamlessly across desktop and mobile. Gemini in Chrome is also expanding its ability to analyze, summarize, and quiz users on podcasts and non-YouTube videos, in addition to documents and webpages it already supports.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-24
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