YouTube content creators will soon have a slew of new AI-empowered tools at their disposal, the company announced Wednesday at its Made on YouTube event in New York City, including the ability to generate a complete six-second YouTube Shorts video clip with a text prompt.
The new capability arrives thanks to the integration of Google Deep Mind’s Veo video generation model into YouTube Shorts. Built to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s Sora, Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha, Adobe’s Firefly or Kuaishou Technology’s Kling, Veo can generate six-second clips at 1080p resolution across a wide range of cinematic themes and styles.
Veo’s integration will augment YouTube’s AI-powered “Dream Screen,” which debuted in 2023 and enabled content creators to generate backgrounds for their videos. Users will now be able to enter a text prompt into Dream Screen, have it generate four image outputs, and then animate one of them with Veo. Any content created with this workflow will be watermarked with Google’s SynthID system, though repeated studies have shown how easily such visual identifiers can be circumvented.
Veo wasn’t the only new feature announced at the event. Google is also working on digital “jewels” that viewers can send to live-streamers, similar to the “gifts” on TikTok. Vertical Livestreams in the U.S. will be the first to try the “jewels.” What’s more, the company expanded its automatic dubbing service to include French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, as well as made its Community hubs available to more channels.
Google also announced that creators can use AI to help them “brainstorm” video ideas in YouTube Studio. The Inspiration tab, which has been in beta testing, will not only suggest the concept for what you should make but it will also generate a title, thumbnail, and even the first few lines of dialog, all automatically. These new tools should help further lower YouTube’s barriers to entry for content creators and help the video platform better compete with the likes of TikTok.
Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.
Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 Terra.
OpenAI says Terra can handle everything from filling out browser forms and working inside spreadsheets to interpreting technical drawings and editing videos. The company says it can also complete computer-based tasks more than three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.