Topic: content discovery
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YouTube Adds AI Overviews Like Google for Better Search
YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature for Premium members in the U.S., focusing on shopping, travel, and local activities, with AI-generated summaries and video carousels. The feature is currently limited to iOS/Android devices, English-language videos, and a select group of Premium use...
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Google Lens Now Works With YouTube Shorts
Google Lens is now integrated into YouTube Shorts, enabling users to search for visual content directly within videos by pausing and highlighting elements. The feature works by overlaying search results on paused Shorts, allowing users to explore related information without leaving the video, cur...
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Google's Gemini AI Is Coming to Your TV Screen
Google is integrating its Gemini AI assistant into Google TV, allowing users to interact with it using natural language to find content and access information on over 300 million devices. The AI serves as an entertainment concierge for personalized show recommendations, plot summaries, and film s...
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Google's Discover Feed Now Includes X and Instagram Posts
Google Discover is expanding to include content from social networks like YouTube Shorts, Instagram, and X, making the feed more dynamic and personalized. Users will gain greater control over their feed, including the ability to follow specific creators or publishers and preview content before ch...
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YouTube Tests AI to Enhance Search & Discovery
YouTube is testing AI-powered tools like smarter search results and conversational assistance to enhance content discovery and interaction, with a focus on refining recommendations and helping creators reach audiences. A new AI-generated search carousel for Premium U.S. users organizes video ...
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Gemini Arrives on Google TV: Here's How to Get It
Google is integrating its Gemini AI assistant into Google TV, starting with TCL's QM9K series and expanding to other devices like the Google TV Streamer 4K later this year. Gemini enables free-flowing conversations for personalized TV recommendations, content searches, and answering general knowl...
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YouTube's Hype Feature: A New Avenue for Smaller Creators
YouTube's new "Hype" feature empowers fans to boost smaller creators by hyping videos, enhancing visibility with badges and leaderboard rankings. Creators under 500K subscribers gain more points, leveling the playing field. This community-driven initiative offers a potential revenue stream through paid hypes and promises tailored content discovery and analytics for future development.
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Instagram Launches Rival to Snapchat with New Map Feature
Instagram launches a new Map feature for location sharing and discovering nearby content, competing with Snapchat’s Snap Map while prioritizing privacy with no background tracking. The platform introduces a repost function inspired by TikTok and X, allowing users to reshare public reels a...
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Microsoft's NLWeb Project Expands Chatbots on Webpages
Microsoft's NLWeb initiative simplifies AI chatbot integration for websites, allowing businesses to add conversational interfaces with minimal coding and customization across industries. NLWeb supports MCP (Model-Connection Protocol), enabling AI models to access website content, which Microsoft ...
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Meta AI's 'Vibes' Feed Turns Creator Videos Into AI Art
Meta AI has launched a new feature called Vibes, a dedicated feed for short-form, AI-generated videos that encourages creative experimentation and sharing across its apps like Instagram and Facebook. The Vibes feed replaces the previous Discover feature, focusing exclusively on video creation wit...
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Libby's New AI Feature Sparks Debate Among Readers
Libby has launched an AI-powered "Inspire Me" tool to provide personalized book recommendations from a library's digital collection, aiming to help users discover and borrow available titles quickly. The feature has faced criticism from some librarians and users who are concerned about AI replaci...
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