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At its Made on YouTube event on Tuesday, the company unveiled a series of new ways for creators to earn more with brand deals and the YouTube Shopping program, which lets creators earn money by featuring and tagging products in their content. Most notably, YouTube is going to allow creators to swap out brand sponsorships in long-form videos. The company is also introducing auto timestamps for product tags, auto tagging for eligible items mentioned in videos, and a new brand link feature for Shorts. The new flexible approach to brand sponsorships will allow creators to dynamically insert brand segments directly…

On Tuesday, YouTube introduced new tools for podcasters at its Made on YouTube live event in New York, including new ways to turn video podcasts into clips and YouTube Shorts and a new feature that helps create videos for audio-only podcasters. Both will be powered by AI and will roll out in the months ahead. Using AI technology, video podcast creators in the U.S. will be able to create clips more easily with AI suggestions, the company says. This will be available in the “coming months,” while a feature that will transform those clips into YouTube Shorts will arrive early…

 VCG | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesGoogle has been trying to play catch-up to OpenAI in generative artificial intelligence. It appears to finally be gaining ground with users.The company’s Gemini app took the top spot among free apps on Apple’s App Store this week, leapfrogging ChatGPT, which kickstarted the generative AI boom almost three years ago.Google’s Gemini AI model has seen some recent updates that have lured new users. Last month, Google launched an updated version of its “Flash” AI model, called 2.5 Flash Image, which has a new image editing feature called Nano Banana. The app allows users…

During YouTube’s Made On event on Tuesday, the company announced three features coming to YouTube Music, which are designed to deepen the connection between artists and their dedicated fans. One of the new features allows users to initiate a countdown for upcoming releases and to pre-save their favorite tracks or albums in advance. The countdown timer will be displayed on the album detail page, artist profile, and album shelf. Set to launch later this year, the feature aims to create buzz leading up to the release date and appears to be similar to a feature on Spotify called Countdown Pages.…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Microsoft Build AI Day in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024.Adek Berry | AFP | Getty ImagesLONDON — Microsoft said on Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in the U.K. by 2028, as the company builds out its artificial intelligence infrastructure.The investment includes an additional $15.5 billion in capital expansion and $15.1 billion in its U.K. operations, Microsoft said. The company said the investment would enable it to build the U.K.’s “largest supercomputer,” with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units (GPUs), in partnership with Nscale, a British cloud computing firm.Nvidia, Google,…

At its Made on YouTube event on Tuesday, the video giant announced several new features aimed at improving the livestreaming experience. This includes letting creators play minigames to entertain viewers, broadcast simultaneously in both horizontal and vertical formats, provide AI-powered highlights, react to live events, use a new ad format, and more. The company says this is the most significant update to Live it has ever introduced, as the livestreaming market continues to grow and competition with TikTok Live heats up. The company reports that more than 30% of daily logged-in viewers watched live content during the second quarter of…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump formally extended the deadline to keep the social media app TikTok available in the United States until Dec. 16, giving time to complete the framework of the deal announced Monday after talks between American and Chinese government officials.The executive order signed on Tuesday by Trump was the fourth time he has bypassed federal law to prolong the deadline for the China-associated TikTok to sell its assets to an American company or face a ban. The original deadline set by Congress was Jan. 19 of this year, a day before Trump took the oath of…

In this photo illustration, the logo of TikTok is displayed on a smartphone screen on April 5, 2025 in Shanghai, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday extended the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. business or be banned in the U.S. after a cabinet member on Monday said a “framework deal” had been reached.The extension comes as The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that under the framework deal, about 80% of TikTok’s U.S. business would be owned by an investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz. As part of the…

At its Made on YouTube live event on Tuesday, the company unveiled new generative AI tools for Shorts creators. YouTube is bringing a custom version of Google’s text-to-video generative AI model, Veo 3, to Shorts, along with a new remixing tool, an “Edit with AI” feature, and more. The custom version of Veo 3, called Veo 3 Fast, generates outputs with lower latency at 480p, making it easy to create video clips, YouTube says. And now users can do so with sound for the first time. This update is rolling out in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia,…

YouTube on Tuesday announced a suite of new features coming to YouTube Studio, the platform over 30 million creators use to manage their channels and track their analytics and revenue every month. At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled new and updated tools like an AI-powered chatbot for support, an inspiration tab, title A/B testing features, auto dubbing, likeness detection tools, and more. Many of these features build on tools previously announced or tested with smaller groups but are now rolling out more broadly. Of these, the most interesting addition is the likeness-detection feature, which was first announced…