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WTF?! When users type a health-related question into Google, the top result now often comes from an AI-generated summary rather than a traditional blue link. However, new research reveals that the ...

Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month How the ‘confident authority’ of AI Overviews is putting public health at ...

AI Overviews appeared on more than 82% of health-related searches in Germany. YouTube was the most cited domain in AI Overview sources, ahead of medical and government sites. The Guardian reported ...

A country has introduced new rules that dramatically limit how long unskippable video ads can run on platforms like YouTube. The move targets long, forced ads and also bans delays when closing static ...

Thousands of people have reported that video site YouTube was not working on Friday afternoon. Downdetector, which allows internet users to self-report when a website isn’t working, recorded 265 ...

AI platforms overwhelmingly cite YouTube, while rivals like TikTok, Vimeo and Twitch barely register in search results, new data shows. YouTube is cited 200x more than any other video platform in AI ...

A decade ago, journalist András Pethő co-founded the nonprofit investigative site Direkt36. He’d just resigned from Origo, one of Hungary’s leading news sites, over political pressure on the newsroom.

Evelyn Polacek Kery works for the Guardian and is a judge at the Press Awards 2025. When three former PayPal employees, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, registered the domain www.youtube.com ...

Turns out, YouTube wasn’t originally intended to be the world’s favorite destination for viral videos. When Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim first started the platform, they made it a dating ...

YouTube filed a lawsuit against Ganjingworld, which operates the Gan Jing World video-sharing site, alleging that it has been “automatically vacuuming up YouTube user channels and associated content ...