Newly unsealed court documents claim YouTube employees internally discussed prioritizing “viewer addiction,” raising fresh concerns about how the platform was designed, especially for younger users.

YouTube employees admitted that their goal was “viewer addiction” and killed proposed safety tools for kids because they wouldn’t provide a high “ROI,” according to bombshell court documents ...

Bernie Sanders interviews Claude AI, revealing how chatbots tailor answers to users—raising new concerns about bias, privacy, ...

A new report is shedding light on a February 2026 malign influence campaign tied to the Russian-linked “Matryoshka” bot network, highlighting how artificial intelligence is being used to scale and ...

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United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the ...

(BCN) — Mountain View police criticized the company supplying its automated license plate reader system after an audit turned up “unauthorized” use by federal law enforcement agencies. At least six ...

YouTube Shorts viewers might soon see AI versions of their favorite creators when scrolling through their feeds. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced on Wednesday that ...

Following YouTube’s recent Google Labs AI-generated “Portraits” tests, the social video-sharing platform is now planning to bring AI-generation to Shorts, allowing creators to post videos using their ...

YouTube is upgrading its Promotions tool, letting creators target potential viewers by interests, not just age, gender, or location. What’s new. Creators can now target users by interest categories ...

EXCLUSIVE: YouTube has terminated two prominent channels that used artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers, Deadline can reveal. The Google-owned video giant has switched off Screen ...

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.