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Google’s new “Ask” feature brings Gemini AI into everyday apps like Photos and YouTube, letting you chat with your own content. You can now find specific memories, edit images, or get instant video summaries,
Google declined a request from Disney to allow ABC back on YouTube TV for election coverage as the two giants are negotiating streaming rights.
On the one hand, $20—which Google previously promised users if a previously unnamed amount of time, now revealed to be “about a week and change” had passed—isn’t that much, given that a monthly YouTube TV subscription currently runs users $82.
YouTube TV begins rolling out $20 credits to subscribers amid the ongoing Disney channel blackout affecting ESPN, ABC, and National Geographic.
Google and YouTube are preparing to pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing them of violating children's privacy laws.
While it feels like Google Messages gains new features almost every other day, there are occasions when the app loses a feature or two. One such feature was the messaging app's ability to open YouTube videos in a picture-in-picture (PiP) window within the chat.
ESPN, ABC and other networks have returned to YouTube TV's streaming platform after a licensing dispute that affected millions of subscribers.
The Competition Commission orders Google and YouTube to invest R688 million in the local media industry, as revenue-share compensation.