Major tech companies like Apple, Nvidia, and Salesforce found themselves in a controversy over AI models trained using YouTube subtitles. Apple responded to the matter and addressed the allegations.
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YouTube is rolling out a sound search feature for Android, and iOS platforms, making it easier to find your favorite song in a catalog of over 100 million songs, simply by singing or humming.
YouTube now lets you remove copyrighted songs from your videos while keeping other sounds such as dialogue and sound effects. The new tool is available with other copyright removal options.
YouTube now lets you report AI-generated content in videos that looks or sounds like you. The video-sharing platform has detailed the steps to file a privacy complaint in an updated support page.
YouTube is working on the ability to use custom thumbnails for playlists, according to an APK teardown. The current setup only allows playlist creators to use video thumbnails as playlist covers.
Juno, which is an unofficial way to watch YouTube videos on Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro headset, just got a new update, which brings support for 180 and 360-degree videos and many other features.
YouTube has started rolling out Jump Ahead and picture-in-picture mode for Shorts videos. These features are now available to Premium users along with some opt-in experiments to try out.
Mozilla has released a small update for Firefox. Version 127.0.2 is now available with two important fixes: one for YouTube playback issues and one related to the private browsing mode on Windows.
YouTube is trying to give more traction to its Shorts videos. The company is testing the waters with its latest experiment that automatically downloads recommended Shorts videos on users' devices.
YouTube is currently testing a new feature that would give one more option apart from Like and Share, to help viewers boost their favorite content creators' videos on the platform.
Google appears to be rolling out YouTube's Stable Volume to more platforms. The feature that balances audio in YouTube videos was spotted on the latest YouTube app for Android TV and Google TV.
Google rolled out new features for Google Classroom. Teachers can save time by attaching AI-suggested questions to YouTube assignments and designating differentiated reading activities for students.
YouTube will soon ask users to add context to videos. It's working on a notes feature, allowing users to write and rate notes that add more information or caution viewers about misinformation.
YouTube said it's testing the ability to share channels via QR codes and summarize live chats during super active live streams using AI. These features are available to small groups of testers.
Google has been waging war on adblockers for a while now when it comes to blocking ads on YouTube. The company is now trying to make it impossible for traditional adblockers to block adverts.
After receiving negative feedback from users who unexpectedly started using it, YouTube is now giving its Premium subscribers the option to test the new desktop redesign and give feedback.
YouTube is experimenting with a new generative AI feature that creates custom images and videos for green screen backgrounds. The feature is currently available to a small group of creators.
The days of free background listening are almost over for YouTube Music users in Canada. YouTube Music has started notifying users that the feature will become a paid offering later this year.
YouTube's Playables free video games are now rolling out to everyone on Android, iOS, and desktop. The feature that lets you play games on YouTube was available as an experiment for Premium users.
A strange issue in YouTube is automatically skipping videos to the end. According to several user reports, it is happening to users with the AdBlock extension installed on their devices.
YouTube has announced its latest AI experiments feature called Dream Track. Creators can use it to generate AI-powered instrumental soundtracks and use them in their YouTube Shorts.
YouTube is testing an AI-powered feature that lets you skip ahead a video to a point where most users would typically jump. It is currently available to YouTube Premium subscribers in the US.
Google's YouTube division has revealed it is making more of an effort to make third-party apps less usable if they attempt to block out ads created for the video streaming service.
After AI companies hit the wall to gather high-quality data to train their AI models, companies like OpenAI are alleged to have transcribed a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4.
Google has pulled the plugs from its Google Podcasts app in the US, making YouTube Music Google's main podcasting app. A prompt appears in the app notifying the users about the shutdown.
YouTube will soon remove its Playables experimental feature that lets you play video games inside its video streaming app. The feature was introduced to limited testers in September last year.
Google has announced that it is now requiring YouTube creators to properly label any content in their videos that uses realistic-looking AI-created content. The tools are now in their Creator Studio.
YouTube has started rolling out a new video player interface for its TV app. The company said its new design is meant to make its video-watching experience more interactive for the viewers.
Google's YouTube TV now has over 8 million users since it first launched on a limited basis in April 2017, which makes it the biggest internet-based TV service in the US by a wide margin.
A new unofficial YouTube client app called Juno is now available for Apple's Vision Pro headset. The app uses YouTube's APIs to load videos in a webview and offer controls for playback.
Google announced today that the total worldwide subscriber numbers for its YouTube Music and YouTube Premium services have surpassed the 100 million mark. That number does include free trials.
Two more major entertainment apps, YouTube and Spotify, have joined Netflix by not offering their native apps for Apple's upcoming Vision Pro headset that will soon launch in the US.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent out a memo to his employees late on Wednesday, informing them that they should expect more "role eliminations" at the company, but not on the scale of 2023's layoffs.
A new report states Google is cutting about 100 of its employees in its YouTube division, as part of an overall restructuring of its various teams. This is the latest in a series of Google layoffs.
According to several user reports online, Google was apparently slowing YouTube down if it detected adblockers. However, Adblock has now confirmed that such is not the case at all.
In YouTube's continuing war against ad-blocking users, it's being discovered that the site has enabled code that slows itself down, with immediate recovery once the user turns off their ad blocker.
Recently some Western companies including Google were relieved of some fines imposed by Russians. Out of these, Telegram commented that it was unaware of the reasons why the charges were dropped.
In a rather atypical YouTube scamming scheme you can actually get paid by cybercriminals. However, earning a few extra bucks can get you into trouble, as the cheats hope you come back for more.
Paramount+ has added the entire 9-episode first season of the Halo live-action TV series to its YouTube channel, letting people in the US watch the show for free for the first time.
Google has updated its Bard chatbot so it can now use its YouTube extension to check out specific videos. Then it can chat with users so they can get specific information about the video's content.