YouTube is a video platform owned by Google. Recent coverage centers on its AI features: at the Made on YouTube event it announced custom feeds built with Gemini from natural-language descriptions, plus Studio tools including Ask Studio, feedback on pacing and storytelling, generated thumbnails and titles, and dynamic thumbnail testing, with creators having run over 40 million title and thumbnail A/B tests. It also previewed non-AI updates such as GIF comments and group chat.
Karpathy builds curated video platform with Claude in a weekendOpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy used Claude Opus 5.5 to filter 43 million Hacker News comments into 6,454 curated videos over a weekend. He says the resulting platform beats YouTube's own recommendations.
AI reshapes ad giants: Meta ad growth outpaces Google by 14 pointsMeta's Q3 ad revenue reached $63.1B, up 26% year on year, while Google's search revenue grew just 12% to $63.4B — the widest growth gap since 2021. Meta credits AI ad tools: advertisers using AI recommendations saw about 5% higher conversion and spent 9% more. Google, meanwhile, is losing search users to AI chatbots, pressuring its core ad business.
Survey: 22% of Ukrainians Get News via AIAn Internews-Ukraine survey found about 22% of Ukrainians used AI to get news in 2026, matching television and online media; 87% still rely on social media, with Telegram top at 82%. Only 10% correctly judged the accuracy of three test stories, and 69% opposed restricting social media access.
YouTube promises custom feeds and more AIAt its Made on YouTube event, YouTube announced upcoming features including Custom Feeds that let users create content tabs by description, plus non-AI updates like GIF comments and group chat. Rollouts will begin later this year.
YouTube builds AI tools that do it allAt its annual Made on YouTube event, YouTube announced upgrades to the AI creator tools it introduced in 2025, adding AI for more complex tasks. The earlier suite included thumbnail A/B testing and a chatbot for querying content performance.
YouTube unveils new AI tools for creatorsAt Made on YouTube, YouTube announced AI tools for its Studio app, including Ask Studio on iOS and Android, draft feedback on pacing and storytelling, generated thumbnails and titles, and dynamic thumbnail testing. Creators have run over 40 million A/B tests on titles and thumbnails.
YouTube launches AI custom feedsYouTube launched custom feeds, letting users describe the videos they want in natural language and using Gemini AI to build a personalized feed pinned to their homepage. The move follows similar user-controlled algorithm tools from Bluesky, Meta, and Spotify.
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