
YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.
YouTube announced new AI-powered tools for its Studio app that creators use to manage their channels. The updates include an AI feature that analyzes unpublished videos to suggest improvements in pacing, structure, and storytelling, as well as tools to automatically generate thumbnail images and titles matched to a creator's style. YouTube also added a research feed showing what content is performing well on the platform and updated analytics to explain why videos perform the way they do. These tools aim to help creators analyze their videos and grow their audiences.
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Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay.
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Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents. The startup's new always-on "Teammates" can take on multiple roles within a workspace, while pulling existing projects, skills, and memory from the Perplexity tools you already use. Teammates integrate with Perplexity Computer, an AI system that can deploy agents on your device to complete tasks. But Perplexity says Teammates "build on top" of Computer by offering the ability to collaborate and co

Meta now lets you have voice conversations with your Muse AI agent in real time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today. The feature has been rolled out to me, and I gave it a spin on the iOS app while writing this article. As you chat with your Muse agent, the avatar at the top of your conversation animates in time with the words that it's saying. You can also change the tone of the voice by just asking your agent about what you want and letting it decide or by browsing through a

Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.

Anthropic has a new pitch for managing your personal finances: let Claude do it instead, with a new Personal Finance feature that connects it to your bank and card accounts via the Plaid bank bridging platform. You can ask the chatbot "where did my money go this month," for example, and it'll create an overview with a breakdown of spending by category, including rent and utilities, shopping, and food. Claude can also answer broader questions around what bills are left before yo

With Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.