Susan Wojcicki died at the age of 56
Google Co-founder Susan Wojcicki passed away due to lung cancer aged 56 in Santa Clara, California. Wojcicki, who was Google’s Co-founder and CEO of YouTube, founded YouTube in 1998 at the age of 26. She later served as the CEO of YouTube until Google acquired it in 2006. Wojcicki had also served as a board member of Salesforce.com.
Susan Wojcicki was the former CEO and visionary of YouTube
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted, “The world is built by people.” “What Susan Wojcicki built in an incredibly complex environment isvery special and head and shoulders above what others created,” he added. Meanwhile, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said Wojcicki was one of the first to take maternity leave and she was one of the first to advocate for parental leave.
The Supreme Court rules that the United States government can continue talking to social media companies
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube don’t have to remove misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and election integrity from their platforms. The case relates to the US government communicating with social media companies about misleading and harmful content on their platforms. The Supreme Court said that the plaintiffs failed to prove they had standing to sue.
Microsoft aims to win over developers who use artificial intelligence
Microsoft has revealed it’s building a ‘Copilot runtime’ that can be used to integrate AI-based features into its apps like Studio Effects, filters and portrait blur. The runtime also includes a library of APIs that developers can use to tap into for their own apps. Microsoft also announced a new feature to automatically translate videos from sites like YouTube.
Everything was announced at the I/O
Google on Wednesday announced a new AI model, ‘Gemini 1.5 Flash’, in its Android operating system. It claims it can convert text, image and video into high-definition video. Google also said it will be launching a new chatbot called ‘Gemini Nano’, which can help users create videos with YouTube and improve them with Veo.
A new music tool uses famous singers’ voices to create tracks
YouTube has launched a new experimental music platform ‘Dream Track’ to explore the use of AI to support artists’ creative processes. The platform can be accessed by users typing in a prompt, and a user will be directed to a short clip of a new song sung by artist Charlie Puth with a relevant backing track.
A music tool created tracks using voices from famous singers
YouTube is testing a new AI-generated deepfake feature, Dream Track, that can produce songs from any artist in the style of nine artists including Alec Benjamin, John Legend and Charlie Puth. It can also work as a backing track. The tool is powered by Google’s DeepMind’s music generation model called Lyria. A backing track can be made using the software.
The creators of TikTok have been challenged by shorter shorts with music-making artificial intelligence
YouTube has rolled-out a new feature called Dream Track that can auto-generate music tracks from text or hummed tunes. Called ‘Lyria’, the feature was created by Google’s DeepMind. Users can enter prompts like ‘a ballad about how opposites attract, upbeat acoustic’ to create a track. When a track is changed, it’ll carry a SynthID watermark that is inaudible to the naked ear.
Privacy laws are posing a challenge to the ad blocking efforts on YouTube
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has criticised YouTube over its decision to prevent some users from viewing its content if they have an ad blocker. DPC said YouTube is violating ePrivacy Directive, which requires online service providers to get explicit permission to “gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user”.
Kevin Scott talked about Bing’s quest to beat Google and their future
Kevin McReynolds, the creative director of YouTube, spoke about the future of AI and said, “You’re almost Certainly going to want to use some of these AI tools to help produce content.” He added, “What you want from a search engine and what you’re going to want from an agent is a little more complicated than just asking a question and getting an answer.”