Humane AI raised more than $230 million before it even shipped a product. And when it finally released its Ai Pin — which costs $699 plus a $24 monthly subscription — pretty much every tech reviewer came to the same disappointing realization: This much-hyped product, which promises to disrupt the smartphone’s dominance, is not very […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

The launch of the new features come as TikTok Shop is seeking to take on YouTube Shopping and other competitors in the space. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Google is shutting down its Podcasts app in the U.S. in a matter of days. The company has begun warning the app’s users they will need to migrate their subscriptions to YouTube Music by April 2 to follow and stream their favorite shows going forward. Users who don’t make the move immediately will still have […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

YouTube is launching “members only” Shorts, allowing creators to share short-form videos exclusively to their paying viewers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

With TikTok potentially poised for a U.S. ban, YouTube is touting how well its own TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, is paying off for creators. The company on Thursday said its short-form video platform now averages over 70 billion daily views and over 25% of channels in YouTube’s Partner Program monetize their videos through revenue-sharing on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to Snapchat’s ghost-like logo. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

YouTube is now requiring creators to disclose to viewers when realistic content was made with AI, the company announced on Monday. The platform is introducing a new tool in Creator Studio that will require creators to disclose when content that viewers could mistake for a real person, place or event was created with altered or […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Update: The outages have been resolved as of around 3:00 p.m. ET. A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that there was a surge in traffic beginning at around 10:25 a.m. ET, which correlated with an unrelated service disruption. Though the spokesperson didn’t specify further details, that timing lines up with a major outage at Meta, where […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

YouTube Create, Google’s standalone mobile app aimed at creators, which helps them produce both Shorts and longer videos, is expanding to a broader set of markets after last fall’s launch into beta testing. The app was initially available on Android in the U.S. and a handful of other select markets, but today will become available […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

YouTube is changing the design for creators’ channels on the big screen, the comapny announced today. The changes include more accessible action buttons, like “Subscribe,” a more modern design, and other tweaks that were first introduced for artists’ pages last fall. At the time, YouTube said that artist pages were part of a larger YouTube […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more