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MrBeast and Amazon named in lawsuit over Beast Games
The Amazon series offered 1,000 participants the chance to win a cash prize of $5m.
YouTube launches Communities, a Discord-like space for creators and fans to interact with each other
At its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called “Communities,” is kind of like a Discord server built into a creator’s channel. … Continue reading
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Amazon adds PayPal as a payment option to Buy with Prime
Amazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option: PayPal. Today, Amazon announced that Prime customers can use PayPal … Continue reading
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An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts
Google plans to add an AI feature next year inside of the YouTube app for creators to generate 6-second clips using the company’s Veo model.
Amazon increases average pay for warehouse workers and adds free Prime membership perk
Starting this month, Amazon’s average starting pay for front-line employees will be more than $22 an hour, up from roughly $20.50 an hour, the company said.
YouTube Studio now lets creators brainstorm video ideas with the help of AI
At its Made on YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced that creators can now brainstorm ideas for videos with the help of AI right within YouTube Studio. YouTube will also soon start letting creators create AI-generated thumbnails and quickly … Continue reading
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YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model
The main attraction of YouTube’s Made On event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. The company announced that it is integrating Google DeepMind’s AI video generation model, Veo, into YouTube Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds as … Continue reading
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Generative AI startup Runway inks deal with a major Hollywood studio
Runway, a startup developing AI video tools, including video-generating models, has partnered with Lionsgate — the studio behind the “John Wick” and “Twilight” franchises — to train a custom video model on Lionsgate’s movie catalog. Lionsgate vice chair Michael Burns … Continue reading
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The 22-year-old building Roblox developer tools to make gaming more efficient
Gamebeast is a live operations tooling platform that lets developers modify games without needing to release a new version or interrupt an ongoing game. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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The iPhone 16 Pro Max has better battery life and great cameras, but Apple Intelligence hasn’t arrived
CNBC’s iPhone 16 Pro Max review. There are a lot of good upgrades but Apple Intelligence isn’t ready yet.