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Think ads are bad now? Netflix and YouTube just revealed AI-powered commercials that could make cheap tiers unbearable
Netflix has announced that AI-generated mid-roll ads are coming in 2026 YouTube this week also revealed its new ...
Google shows off its next-gen AI assistant that can control your Android phone
Google showed off its latest version of Project Astra today, revealing that it made an AI agent that can control Android apps ...
YouTube announces Gemini AI feature to target ads when viewers are most engaged
Peak Points” will allow advertisers to use Google’s Gemini AI model to target ads to viewers when they are most engaged with ...
YouTube Fights Back Against AI Trailers by Demonetizing Two Major Channels
As AI becomes an even more contentious issue in Hollywood and the wider film industry, YouTube is also taking a stance ...
YouTube's top brains crack making its ads even worse: Using AI to insert commercials at moments you're 'most engaged' with its videos
So far, so acceptable (though I don't know how that's markedly different from YouTube's already-existing "most replayed" ...
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Project Astra Is the Secret Sauce for Google's Gemini Live AI Advances
Not unlike some of the recent announcements for the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Google highlighted the helpfulness of Project Astra as an accessibility utility. Another video showed how a low-vision ...
Andreessen Horowitz-backed studio Promise partners with Google on AI, adds investors
Generative AI studio Promise, backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said on Tuesday that it had partnered with ...