In today’s Tech Bytes, YouTube is addressing its global outage. More than 800,000 users in the U.S. reported losing their YouTube feed late yesterday. YouTube says an issue with its recommendation ...

Instagram and YouTube have been accused of "engineer[ing] addiction in children's brains", in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA. Mark Lanier, representing ...

Meta and YouTube are in court this week over allegations that their social media platforms can be addictive and harmful to children, while TikTok on Tuesday chose to settle the closely watched case.

YouTube is continuing to lean into AI to help make content, and that next YouTube Short you watch might not contain real footage of its creator. CEO Neal Mohan announced the latest move in this trend ...

YouTube’s investment in AI tools for creators is paying off. In December alone, more than 1 million YouTube channels used the company’s AI creation tools daily, CEO Neal Mohan revealed in a blog post ...

YouTube's CEO Neal Mohan is the latest in a line of tech bosses who have admitted to limiting their children's social media use, as the harms of being online for young people have become more evident.

Some YouTube TV users have found a credit in their account for $60 off their subscription, but it's not related to the platform's ongoing contract dispute with Disney. In the days since, some YouTube ...

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals ...

YouTube TV viewers no longer can see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal. Other channels that vanished from Google’s pay TV ...

Microsoft, really, really, really wants you to log in with a full, connected Microsoft account for Windows 11. It’s essential for tracking user data, feeding people ads, and generally making your PC ...

As part of an AI-focused reorganization, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees that it will offer voluntary buyouts, according to an internal company memo. At the same time, he emphasized that there ...

YouTube introduced likeness-detection tools to help creators remove AI-generated deepfake videos. This feature is only one part of YouTube's broader effort to control AI-generated content. YouTube is ...