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Susan Wojcicki was a long-time executive at the search engine
Google Co-founder Susan Wojcicki passed away aged 53 on Tuesday after a two-year-long battle with lung cancer. Wojcicki co-founded Google and YouTube with her childhood friend Steve Jobs in the early 1990s. She was Google’s Executive Chairman from 2012 to 2017 and left Google in 2018 to become CEO of YouTube, Google’s parent company.
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Anthropic used thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to train their Artificial Intelligence
Apple and its AI company Anthropic allegedly used subtitles from 187,000 YouTube videos, which sucked from over 48,000 channels, the Wall Street Journal reported. Videos from MrBeast and Marques Brownlee appear in the dataset, as do clips from news outlets like ABC News, the BBC, and The New York Times. More than 100 videos from…
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A group of employees were fired for protesting a cloud deal with Israel
Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after they participated in protests against a $1.2-billion contract with Israel’s government. The protest was organised by No Tech for Apartheid, an activist group led by ex-YouTube software engineer Zelda Montes, who was among the fired employees. Montes said that she was arrested after occupying Google’s office for more…
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A group of employees were fired for protesting a cloud deal with Israel
Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after they participated in protests against a $1.2-billion contract with Israel’s government. The protest was organised by No Tech for Apartheid, an activist group led by ex-YouTube software engineer Zelda Montes, who was among the fired employees. Montes said that she was arrested after occupying Google’s office for more…
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The new music tool creates tracks using famous singers’ voice clones
Google’s AI-powered music generation tool Lyria has been rolled out on YouTube, allowing artists to create music using artificial intelligence. The creators of music-generating systems that were used to training them will receive a cut of future ad revenue generated by videos featuring artificial intelligence. Earlier, the platform had announced new content guidelines for AI-generated…
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There are artificial intelligence clones of musicians on YouTube
YouTube has said that it will allow people to request the removal of videos that “simulate an identifiable individual, including their face or voice” through the existing privacy request form. The platform will evaluate different factors when evaluating requests such as whether the content is parody or satire and whether the individual is a public…
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Israel is in real danger due to three reasons
NBC and its news channel MSNBC will shut down their YouTube channels later this month, according to a report. This comes after MSNBC’s CEO Keith Olbermann tweeted that he’s “deeply sorry” for the decision. The shutdown will come just days before the first US Presidential debate, which will be held on October 25.
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Adblocker is believed to break the EU privacy law
The European Commission has said that it isn’t okay with YouTube’s video ad blocker detection and that it’s “absolutely necessary” to provide a service such as YouTube. This comes after German Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer told the European Commission that YouTube’s use of ad blockers to block ads on videos is a violation of…
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YouTube is working with music labels to figuring out its strategy for Artificial Intelligence
Universal Music Group (UMG) has said that AI-generated songs violate copyright laws, adding that the company would be working with YouTube to prevent such content from being posted on the platform. UMG added that YouTube will be working with UMG’s artists and producers to build an AI incubator which will convene a bunch of UMG…
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There is controversy over video ads
A report by advertising watchdog group Check My Ads has found that YouTube’s 30-second ads are appearing on high-quality video content on third-party websites 80% of the time. The report also claimed that Google does not offer the option to “opt out” of running ads on third-party websites “at any time”. “YouTube’s ad-supported model supports…
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Tucker Carlson is having his show broadcasted on the micro-messaging service
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that he doesn’t want to put YouTube out of business but he wondered whether it was worth it to give them a whole bunch of free traffic. He added, “At least give creators…option if they would like to put their video on Twitter and earn the same amount as…
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Nine years after taking over at the site, Susan Wojcicki steps down as CEO
YouTube CEO Conor Mohan has said the platform will be launching a creation feature this year that will allow users to record a Short in a side-by-side layout beside an existing YouTube video or Short. The feature will allow viewers to watch multiple games at the same time. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki had stepped down…
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There were some big stories from the Hot Pod Summit
iHeart Media’s President of Podcasts Ceo-Conal Byrne said the podcasting division has grown over the last four years. “The business and the economics of podcasting today still sit with the creator and the publisher, because you own the pipe…you distribute your shows through,” he added. Byrne further said it makes sense to him why YouTube…
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The website doesn’t mean to say it isn’t messing with1080p
After YouTube announced that it was testing whether to make premium videos in 4K or higher resolution ad-free, a Reddit user commented, “YouTube should not have to pay for 4K or higher resolution ad-free viewing unless you want to pay.” Another user wrote, “This is a sign of YouTube’s downfall, and it’s understandable given cost…
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The Supreme Court cases this week could destroy the internet
The US Supreme Court will decide whether Google and YouTube are liable for the way it organises content from Islamic State (ISIS). Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have been sued for helping ISIS by hosting user content expressing support for the group. The court will also determine whether firms can be sued for…
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Next year, the “Sunday Ticket” will be on the internet’s most popular video site
American football league National Football League’s (NFL) ‘Sunday Ticket’ will be made available on YouTube, Commissioner Roger Goodell has said. “We’ve been focussed on increased digital distribution of our games and this partnership is yet another example of us looking towards the future and building the next generation of NFL fans,” Goodell said. The Sunday…
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Why did it cost money to watch the NBA Sunday Ticket?
YouTube has launched a streaming service for US National Football League (NFL) games called YouTube TV. It said it will let users watch live and on-demand events from the league’s affiliates, including Fox, CBS and Turner Broadcasting, on their computers and smartphones. YouTube TV will be offered as an add-on subscription or as a la…
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‘Sunday Ticket’ will be on the internet beginning next season.
Google-owned YouTube is paying $2 billion per season for the residential streaming rights to NFL Sunday Ticket in a seven-year deal, The Wall Street Journal reported. It will be available either as an add-on for YouTube TV subscribers or as a la carte option on YouTube Primetime Channels, which launched last month. The NFL was…
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It is your phone that is TikTok’s greatest asset.
Social media platforms like YouTube and Instagram have become “metamorphosis” of their users’ “unmediated inner self”, a study has claimed. The transition from cinema to TV made moving images into our homes, it added. The study claims viewers started to develop a social relationship with the people they saw on the screen.