If you've spent any time testing AI video tools, you've probably noticed a pattern: most of them are built for short bursts.

YouTube has alerted creators to the UK government’s proposal for mandatory changes regarding how content is discovered on the site, with traditional broadcasters potentially being favored. The UK ...

This summer, every trendy dessert joint has a mile-long line of transplants and tourists. One New Yorker is protesting in his ...

Why does endless scrolling leave people feeling empty? New research links passive social media use to loneliness.

How does the largest video site on the planet manage the storm of AI-generated content to come, while also harnessing AI to supercharge the human creativity that fueled its rise in the first place?

English guide to AI in 2026, including top chatbots, free AI tools, humanoid robots, key terms, and what comes next.

YouTube star Casey Neistat says he no longer fully understands what drives success on the platform. Why it matters: AI recommendation systems are making YouTube feel less predictable, even for some of ...

Clipping – turning long-form videos and streams into short, viral snippets – has become the growth hack of choice for creators, spawning its own cottage industry. Controversial figures like Braden ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks with the business writer Ed Elson about the rise of the “clip economy”—the idea that short video clips pulled from podcasts, livestreams, and ...

YouTube is officially retiring its Clips feature for users and replacing it with a “share at timestamp” option now rolling out to mobile apps on Android and iOS. Creators will still have access to ...