Updates on YouTube

Every AI story we track on YouTube: 43 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This month

Dev5 min read

Gemini 4 Argon is now rolling out to Google’s Antigravity for AI Pro subscribers

9to5Google (Gemini)
Music & Audio2 min read

YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs

Covered by 4 sources
Social Media8 min read

From Substack to YouTube, here are the social platforms cracking down on AI slop

Business Insider

Disney's new CTO tells staff he 'won't pretend it will be easy' to win in the changing media landscape

Business Insider
Social Media2 min read

Instagram’s Edits app gets an AI assistant that reads your Reels data

The Next Web
Social Media3 min read

Instagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post

The Verge
Society & Culture3 min read

Prince Harry warns AI companion chatbots want children’s attachment

The Next Web
Social Media3 min read

YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI

Covered by 5 sources

YouTube brings AI to shopping in India with new tools for viewers, creaters

ET AI (The Economic Times)

YouTube Says New AI Tools Will Help Creators, not Replace Them

Bloomberg
Social Media4 min read

YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them

Covered by 2 sources
Politics2 min read

Is Burnham right to blame Russia for spreading online disinformation?

BBC
Social Media33 min read

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan: Why We’re Betting On AI And Not Afraid Of It

Big Technology
Public Sector5 min read

Sweeping EU Child Safety Proposal Would Transform Social Media, Online Gaming and AI Chatbots

CNET

Google Pledges Over $15 Billion for AI Infrastructure in Finland

Covered by 3 sources
Consumer Tech2 min read

Amazon Prime Video’s new AI tech matches lips to dubbed audio

Covered by 2 sources
Education2 min read

I built a tool that turns any topic into a structured YouTube course (using AI)

Hacker News
Social Media6 min read

A political video network hired real actors to read its AI scripts. That was enough to beat YouTube’s detectors.

The Next Web
Social Media2 min read

MauroPello/stop-the-slop: Spot AI-generated YouTube scripts

Hacker News
Social Media10 min read

Paid Actors, AI Writing

Hacker News
Video Generation10 min read

[AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier

Latent.Space
Video Generation19 min read

Clips Kitty Open-source local AI video clipping and editing

Hacker News
Social Media3 min read

AI slop has found politics. Fake “news” channels are flooding YouTube with tales of blue-state collapse.

The Next Web
Education1 min read

Focus Room

Product Hunt
Marketing & Sales2 min read

Prepare for the holiday season with July’s Demand Gen Drop.

Google Blog
Dev5 min read

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

TechCrunch
Social Media4 min read

YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos

Covered by 2 sources
Dev3 min read

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

TechCrunch
Social Media3 min read

Google defends a ‘crisis actor’ video at Australia’s antisemitism inquiry

The Next Web

YouTube’s AI slop purge is punishing the human creators who never showed their faces

The Next Web

YouTube adds new podcast features, including an AI recommendation tool and ‘Auto speed’

TechCrunch

YouTube mentions are the single strongest predictor of whether AI will recommend your brand, according to a study of 75,000 companies

The Next Web

YouTube will now automatically label AI videos

Covered by 2 sources

John Grisham’s New Legal Drama Is a Real Life Fight Against AI Audiobooks on YouTube

Gizmodo

Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One

TechCrunch

YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature that shows guided answers

TechCrunch

YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

TechCrunch

YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel

The Next Web

“Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic

Futurism

Google Invests $1 Million in Company That Makes AI YouTube Videos for Kids

Gizmodo

YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children

Futurism

YouTube expands AI deepfake detection for politicians, government officials, and journalists

Covered by 2 sources
That's everything we have on YouTube right now