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  YouTube Announces Crackdown on Videos With Egregious Clickbait Thumbnails and Titles in India

  YouTube will take punitive measures against videos which have clickbait thumbnails or titles, the Google-owned company announced on Wednesday. This crackdown is claimed to be beginning in India and will especially exercise vigilance on YouTube videos which are based on topics such as breaking news or current events. The company says it is enforcing...

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  YouTube Creators Get New Option to Allow Third-Party AI Firms to Train Models on Their Videos

  YouTube announced a new update on Monday that will allow content creators on the platform more control over third-party artificial intelligence (AI) training. The move comes after the video-streaming giant introduced new tools to protect creators from deepfakes that imitate their likenesses, including their faces and voices. The new option will let...

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  YouTube Opens Its Health Content Shelves to Registered Health Professionals

  YouTube is expanding one of its health-related initiatives to allow verified content creators to spread awareness about different topics and diseases. Last week, the video streaming platform announced it was opening up ‘health content shelves’ and ‘health source information panels’, two exclusive features reserved for accredited health orga...

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  YouTube's AI Video Dubbing To Bridge Language Barriers

  This feature will be accessible to thousands of knowledge-based content creators enabling them to dub their videos in multiple languages.

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  YouTube Expands AI-Powered Auto Dubbing Feature to Knowledge-Based Channels

  YouTube is rolling out its auto dubbing feature to knowledge and information-focused content, it announced on Tuesday. As the name suggests, auto dubbing can automatically transcribe and translate YouTube videos from English to other dialects and vice versa, helping creators engage viewers who don’t speak the same language by transcending languag...

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  YouTube Partners NCERT to Introduce YouTube Channels for Students in 29 Languages

  YouTube has partnered with the NCERT to provide access to educational materials for students in 29 languages, including Indian Sign Language in India. The company is also bringing IIT-grade credentialed courses via NPTEL to on YouTube, with the option to receive a certification from the IITs.

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  Google Chrome for iOS Receives Shopping Insights, Other New Features

  Google Chrome for iOS has rolled out several new features that aim to make finding information and completing tasks easier. The web browser now lets iPhone users add text queries to visual searches via Google Lens for more helpful and relevant results. It also introduces new ways to save space on iPhone, find better deals while shopping online, and...

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  YouTube Partners With Flipkart and Myntra to Launch YouTube Shopping in India

  YouTube Shopping has been launched in India, as the company looks to expand monetisation options for video creators in the country. Eligible creators can tag brands in their content and earn commissions when customers make purchases. The YouTube Shopping affiliate marketing program will collaborate with Flipkart and Myntra at launch.

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  Google DeepMind SynthID AI Watermarking Technology Open-Sourced to Businesses and Developers

  Google DeepMind open-sourced a new technology to watermark AI-generated text on Wednesday. Dubbed SynthID, the artificial intelligence (AI) watermarking tool can be used across different modalities including text, images, videos, and audio. However, currently, it is only offering the text watermarking tool to businesses and developers. The company ...

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  Google Messages Rolls Out Sensitive Content Warning, Enhanced Spam Detection and More Features

  Google Messages is rolling out several new features aimed at improving user privacy and protecting them from suspicious calls and messages. One of the additions is protection against scam texts related to package deliveries and jobs, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) models. There are also features related to handling international callers an...

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  Google Says It Will Stop Linking to New Zealand News if Proposed New Law Is Passed

  Google said it will stop linking to New Zealand news articles if the government goes ahead with a law to force tech giants to pay a fair price for content that appears on their feeds.

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  Gemini in Gmail App Adds Contextual Smart Replies Feature for Google Workspace Users

  Gemini in the Gmail app is getting a new feature which will let users quickly respond to emails with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). Dubbed contextual smart replies, the feature allows users to respond to incoming emails with detailed replies. The AI can process the content of the email and contextually generate a reply. Notably, the sma...

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  YouTube Introduces Conversational AI Feature to Premium Subscribers Using Android Devices

  YouTube is now rolling out a new conversational artificial intelligence (AI) feature to users. On Tuesday, the company announced that the new tool, which will let users ask queries about the content of a specific video, is being expanded to YouTube Premium subscribers in the US. Earlier, this feature was available in beta, but now more users can in...

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  Google TV Devices Updated With Smart Home Hub, AI-Powered Sports Page and Content Overviews

  Google TV is getting a new update which adds several new features to all the existing devices as well as the recently launched Google TV Streamer. The update comes just days after the Mountain View-based tech giant rolled out the security update for Chromecast with Google TV. With this, Google TV users will see a new home panel that acts as the cen...

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  Google to Introduce C2PA Content Credentials to Help Users Identify AI-Generated Images

  Google announced on Tuesday that there were new ways for users to find out whether an image was created using generative artificial intelligence (AI). While the tech giant has been working on developing internal tools to watermark AI-generated content, it also joined the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) as a steering committ...