YouTube is undergoing a staffing shakeup as the company pivots to focus on artificial intelligence, offering its US-based employees voluntary buyout packages with severance. The online video platform, which launched in 2005, is restructuring its products team for the first time since 2015…

YouTube ad revenue topped $10 billion for the first time in a single quarter, helping push parent Alphabet past Wall Street expectations for the July-to-September period. Total company revenue also hit a milestone, passing $100 billion in a quarter for the first time. It hit $102.34 billion, up…

Google veteran Pete Cory has been appointed Chairman of Arcade, the management company for YouTube stars The Sidemen. Cory's appointment comes swiftly after Thomas Benski's Lumina Media made a seven-figure investment in Arcade, taking a minority stake. The Sidemen started out as a YouTube…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Monday that will require platforms to regularly display warning labels of the addictive nature of social media. The bill, AB 56, is among several measures the governor signed to establish greater guardrails on social media and AI. AB 56…

In a Truth Social post made yesterday, President Donald Trump pressed Google-owned YouTube TV to restore access to Univision, citing the Spanish-language broadcast network’s favorable coverage of him and Republicans as reason for doing so. “I hope Univision, a great and very popular Hispanic…

A trio of execs from Google, YouTube and the BBC have joined forces to launch Hera, a podcast company that will serve what they say is “the most underserved audience in media history: women.” With podcasting dominated by men, Hera is being billed as the UK's first video podcast network to focus…

Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the UK has begun and artificial intelligence (AI) is the name of the game. Later today, Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer are expected to sign a landmark technology deal that has already seen the world’s biggest tech companies pledge…

A federal judge has restricted Google from entering into exclusive contracts for the distribution of search and other apps, but he rejected more severe punishments for the tech giant, including a divestiture of its Chrome browser. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year that Google…

Close to 30 years have passed since Doug Liman's breakout feature Swingers played in the Venice Film Festival's now defunct Overtaking Lane sidebar devoted to emerging directors, having been rejected by Sundance. The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow director was back on the Lido this year…

UPDATED with YouTube response: FCC chair Brendan Carr put his thumb on the scale in a carriage battle between YouTube TV and Fox, telling YouTube parent Google to "get a deal done." "Google removing Fox channels from YouTube TV would be a terrible outcome. Millions of Americans are relying on…

Less than two weeks before the 2025 NFL season kicks off, Fox and YouTube TV are in a carriage dispute that threatens a network blackout on the Google-owned service within days. YouTube TV posted a statement today that says Fox’s “content may become unavailable on YouTube TV as early as August…

Bourne Identity director Doug Liman will unveil his upcoming XR thriller Asteroid in the Venice Film Festival's immersive showcase. Asteroid, which is due to launch on Google's Android XR platform later this year, was among 69 works announced for Venice Immersive on Wednesday. Produced by…