Prediction Market Kalshi Accuses MrBeast Editor of Insider Trading

John Gruber / npr - Bobby Allyn, reporting for NPR: An editor who works for YouTube’s biggest creator, MrBeast, hasbeen suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi andreported to federal regulators for insider trading, Kalshiofficials said on Wednesday. It’s the fir…

techspot - YouTube said the changes were based on user feedback, noting that the additional features would make Premium Lite more attractive to people currently using the free service. They are already available to Lite users in the US and will be gradually rolled o…

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The Perfect YouTube Plan for Apple Music Fans Has Arrived

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YouTube adds downloads and background play to Premium Lite plan

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YouTube Premium Lite Just Got Two Major Features Users Will Love

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YouTube Premium Lite subscribers just got a free upgrade

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Kalshi reveals insider trading case against editor for MrBeast

Bobby Allyn / npr - With prediction markets booming, so have concerns about insider trading. Now, Kalshi has disclosed its first public actions against accounts suspected of trading on confidential information.

#techpolicy #politics #youtube #stockmarket #business #scam #law #sec #regulation #polymarket

California gubernatorial candidate penalized after apparent on-camera trading (2)
Kalshi's first public enforcement exposes market policing (1)
MrBeast editor fined and suspended for insider trading (6)
Tax accountant hit jackpot betting against DOGE (1)
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YouTube Premium Lite Gets Better With Background Play and Offline Downloads

Laurent Giret / thurrott - YouTube is improving its $7.99/month Premium Lite plan with two new perks, background play and offline downloads.The post YouTube Premium Lite Gets Better With Background Play and Offline Downloads appeared first on Thurrott.com.

#streaming #youtube #alphabet #apps #pricing #media #technology #ads #copyright

YouTube Premium Lite Adds Background Play and Downloads in Canada

10 days / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

YouTube’s Premium Lite gets a tad sweeter with essential features

10 days / digitaltrends

YouTube Premium Lite now gets background play and downloadable content

10 days / mashable

YouTube Premium Lite Gets Better With Background Play and Offline Downloads

10 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

YouTube Boosts Premium Lite Plan With Two Big Feature Changes

10 days / cnet / Kourtnee Jackson

YouTube's Premium Lite tier gets background play and downloads

10 days / engadget / Sarah Fielding

YouTube’s cheaper subscription is getting background play and downloads

10 days / theverge / Jay Peters

YouTube beefs up its $7.99/month Lite subscription with offline downloads and background play

10 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Is YouTube Down Right Now? Outage Hits Over a Million People, According to Downdetector

Jeff Carlson / cnet - More than a million people around the world reported the popular video site had gone dark. Just in time for Olympics coverage!

#google #techsupport #youtube #alphabet #internet #us #apps #asia #media #broadcasting

Engineers say service normalized after widespread outage (2)
Investigation finds infrastructure failure caused two-hour outage (2)
On-scene: users report mass YouTube outage worldwide (8)
Seoul: YouTube experiences partial service disruption (1)
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Engineers say service normalized after widespread outage

YouTube says brief outage fixed

17 days / techxplore

(LEAD) YouTube says service normalized after temporary outage

17 days / co / Kang Jae-eun

Investigation finds infrastructure failure caused two-hour outage

YouTube fully restored after rare two-hour infrastructure failure

17 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

YouTube outage cause revealed: Heres what we know

17 days / mashable

On-scene: users report mass YouTube outage worldwide

Is YouTube Down Right Now? Outage Hits Over a Million People, According to Downdetector

17 days / cnet / Jeff Carlson

YouTube is down for thousands of users in the US

17 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

YouTube is down. Heres what we know.

17 days / mashable

It's not just you, YouTube is partially down in outage

17 days / ycombinator

YouTube outage: Thousands of users claim site is down as homepage returns error message | The Independent

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YouTube is Down

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YouTube down in USA: Tens of thousands of users face problems amid outage; ‘something went wrong’

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YouTube is Down

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Seoul: YouTube experiences partial service disruption

YouTube experiences partial service disruption in S. Korea

17 days / co / Kang Jae-eun

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The Vision Pro YouTube app is here and it fixes the biggest annoyances

digitaltrends - YouTube finally has an official Vision Pro app, ending the Safari workaround and adding offline downloads plus support for 3D and panoramic video. It’s free now, even as Netflix still stays away.The post The Vision Pro YouTube app is here and it fixes the…

#vr #wearables #mixedreality #apple #streaming #youtube #apps #technology #spatialcomputing #gadgets

Apple Vision Pro finally gets an official YouTube app

21 days / theshortcut / Reece Bithrey

The Vision Pro YouTube app is here and it fixes the biggest annoyances

21 days / digitaltrends

YouTube launches dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro

22 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

YouTube's bare-minimum app for Apple Vision Pro is better than nothing -- hands on

22 days / appleinsider

YouTube Finally Launches Native Apple Vision Pro App

Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - It took just over two years, but YouTube has finally arrived on Apple Vision Pro. According to MacRumors, Google has officially launched a standalone YouTube app for visionOS, giving Apple Vision Pro users a native way to watch videos on a massive virtual…

#software #ar #apple #google #streaming #youtube #apps #gadget #media #spatialcomputing

Can Google's other apps join Vision Pro next? (1)
Two-year delay and third-party takedowns (2)
YouTube lands on Vision Pro with 3D, 360, 8K (12)
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Can Google's other apps join Vision Pro next?

YouTube Is Finally on the Apple Vision Pro. Can We Expect More Google Apps to Come?

22 days / cnet / Scott Stein

Two-year delay and third-party takedowns

It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro

22 days / arstechnica / Samuel Axon

A YouTube Apple Vision Pro app is finally here, with 3D video support and more

22 days / appleinsider

YouTube lands on Vision Pro with 3D, 360, 8K

YouTube Launches Native Apple Vision Pro App With 8K Video Exclusive to M5 Models

22 days / iclarified

After Two Years, the Apple Vision Pro Finally Has a YouTube App

22 days / gizmodo / James Pero

Apple Vision Pro finally gets an official YouTube app

22 days / mashable

YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro

22 days / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Apple Vision Pro Finally Gets a Native YouTube App

22 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

YouTube Apple Vision Pro app finally launches with spatial video support - Tbreak Media

22 days / tbreak

The official YouTube app comes to Apple Vision Pro - Neowin

22 days / neowin

YouTube Launches Official App On Apple Vision Pro - findarticles.com

22 days / findarticles

YouTube Finally Launches Native Apple Vision Pro App

22 days / iphoneincanada / Nehal Malik

YouTube Launches on Apple Vision Pro

22 days / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

YouTube is coming to the Apple Vision Pro

22 days / theverge / Jay Peters

Apple Vision Pro finally gets a YouTube app today

22 days / engadget / Devindra Hardawar

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YouTube is finally coming to Vision Pro for real. Took two years! (I was on a train, so covering this as fast as I could) www.cnet.com/tech/computi...

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Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears

bbc - The tech giants are under scrutiny over social media addiction in a landmark jury trial in Los Angeles

#techpolicy #meta #google #youtube #psychology #ux #instagram #litigation #algorithm

How does this man think that rewiring brains works www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/t...

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In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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YouTube rejects addiction claims in landmark social media trial

24 days / techxplore

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial

24 days / nytimes / Eli Tan and Cecilia Kang

Meta and Google Face Jury in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial

24 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

24 days / ycombinator

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

24 days / techxplore

Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial hears

25 days / bbc

Social media 'addicting the brains of children,' plaintiff's lawyer argues in landmark trial

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Instagram and YouTube owners built 'addiction machines', trial told

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MrBeast’s company buys Gen Z-focused fintech app Step

Amanda Silberling / techcrunch - YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app.

#startups #banking #youtube #business #finance #apps #payments #acquisitions #technology #wallet

MrBeast Enters Banking Industry with Step App Acquisition

24 days / parameter / Trader Edge

MrBeast’s Company Buys Gen Z-Focused Fintech App Step

24 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step

25 days / cnbc

YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app.

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MrBeast just bought a banking app

25 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

MrBeast Scales Financial Wellness by Acquiring FinTech Step

25 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

MrBeast’s company buys Gen Z-focused fintech app Step

25 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

YouTube Star MrBeast Just Bought a Banking App—Will It Offer Crypto?

25 days / decrypt / Stacy Elliott

This free YouTube Music feature just vanished behind a paywall

Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - YouTube Music no longer wants you to look at lyrics for free.

#google #streaming #youtube #business #apps #pricing #music #ux #media #technology

Google insists YouTube Music’s paywalled lyrics are just a ‘limited experiment’

24 days / digitaltrends

YouTube Music Just Paywalled A Fan-Favorite Feature

24 days / bgr

Google experiments with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall | After a lengthy test, YouTube Music is making lyrics a premium feature.

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YouTube Music Is Blurring Lyrics Unless You Pay for Premium

25 days / iphoneincanada / Nehal Malik

This free YouTube Music feature just vanished behind a paywall

25 days / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

YouTube Music Makes Free Song Lyrics a Premium Feature

25 days / cnet / Dashia Milden

YouTube Music is Making Song Lyrics a Premium Feature

25 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

YouTube TV Launches a Raft of New Streaming Packages From $55 a Month

Kourtnee Jackson / cnet - Every plan comes with unlimited DVR, too.

#google #streaming #youtube #sports #business #pricing #media #tv #broadcasting

YouTube TV Gets Cheaper Sports, News, and Entertainment Bundles

25 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

YouTube TV’s new bundles are here to help you lower your streaming bill

25 days / digitaltrends

YouTube TV is offering new, less expensive plans that can be customized around topics like sports, news and entertainment.

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YouTube TV Launches First Genre-Specific Plans

25 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

YouTube TV launches curated subscription packages this week

25 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

YouTube TV is about to get cheaper for sports fans

25 days / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

YouTube TV introduces cheaper bundles, including a $65/month sports package

25 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

YouTube TV’s sports-focused package will cost $64.99 / month

25 days / theverge / Emma Roth

YouTube TV Launches a Raft of New Streaming Packages From $55 a Month

25 days / cnet / Kourtnee Jackson

YouTube Music implements paywall for full song lyrics

Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Google has rolled out a paywall for lyrics on YouTube Music, restricting free users to five songs per month after initial testing in September limited the feature to Premium subscribers. YouTube Music accounts now face this limitation based on multiple us…

#google #streaming #youtube #business #apps #pricing #music #ux #media

Google locks YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall

25 days / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

YouTube puts lyrics behind a paywall

25 days / mashable

YouTube Music starts to restrict free access to lyrics

25 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

New benchmark shows AI models still hallucinate far too often

25 days / the-decoder / Jonathan Kemper

YouTube Music Rolling Out Premium Paywall for Song Lyrics

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YouTube Music implements paywall for full song lyrics

25 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

YouTube Music Rolling Out Premium Paywall for Song Lyrics

25 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

AI giants are racing to secure shrinking memory. It’s creating opportunities for startups

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YouTube Music starts limiting lyrics for free users

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YouTube Blocks Background Play on Mobile Web Browsers, But Brave is Resisting

Laurent Giret / thurrott - YouTube has quietly pushed an update to its mobile website to block background playback on some third-party web browsers, but Brave has already found a workaround.The post YouTube Blocks Background Play on Mobile Web Browsers, But Brave is Resisting appea…

#techpolicy #mobile #google #browsers #youtube #business #internet #apps #ux

YouTube’s War on Workarounds: Background Audio is the Next Target

4 wks / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

YouTube Kills Background Playback on Third-Party Mobile Browsers

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YouTube Blocks Background Play on Mobile Web Browsers, But Brave is Resisting

4 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Software Stocks Post Worst Month Since 2008 as AI Fears Spread to Loan Markets

4 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

YouTube now blocking background playback on mobile browsers

4 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Meta, TikTok and YouTube are on trial over whether their apps hurt children

Shannon Bond / npr - A trial kicking off in a Los Angeles courtroom marks the first time a jury will hear claims that social media companies knowingly hook young users and cause harm.

#techpolicy #meta #social #youtube #tiktok #law #contentmoderation #litigation #safety #california

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TikTok Settles Teen Mental-Health Lawsuit Before Trial

5 wks / wsj / Erin Mulvaney

TikTok to settle as social media addiction trial involving Meta, YouTube moves forward

5 wks / cnbc

TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial

5 wks / nytimes / Cecilia Kang

Blockbuster social media trial kicks off, with more to come this year

5 wks / cnbc

"Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom." www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

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Meta, TikTok and YouTube are on trial over whether their apps hurt children

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Meta, TikTok and YouTube face landmark trial over youth addiction claims

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The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know

5 wks / nytimes / Cecilia Kang

Social Media Giants Face Landmark Legal Tests on Child Safety

5 wks / nytimes / Cecilia Kang

Apple to Host Creator Event on January 27-29, Sparking Reports of a M5 Pro MacBook Pro Announcement

Steve Vegvari / iphoneincanada - Apple has sent out invitations to content creators for an event, sparking speculation of a M5 Pro MacBook Pro announcement.The post Apple to Host Creator Event on January 27-29, Sparking Reports of a M5 Pro MacBook Pro Announcement first appeared on iPhon…

#apple #youtube #camera #cpus #creativity #macbook #media #gadgets #arm #california

Apple Invites Creators to 'Apple Experience' Event as M5 MacBook Pro Launch Nears

6 wks / iclarified

Apple's First Event Of The Year Is Not What You Expect, But There Might Be A Surprise

6 wks / bgr

Apple to Host Creator Event on January 27-29, Sparking Reports of a M5 Pro MacBook Pro Announcement

6 wks / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Creators invited to three-day Apple Creator Studio event

6 wks / appleinsider

Apple Hosting LA Event for Creators on January 27-29 That Could Coincide With MacBook Pro Announcement

6 wks / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Youtube CEO Outlines 2026 Vision: AI Tools for Creators, Fight Against Low-quality Content

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has announced AI tools for creators to make Shorts with their likenesses while fighting low-quality AI content.The post Youtube CEO Outlines 2026 Vision: AI Tools for Creators, Fight Against Low-quality Content appeared first on Win…

#ai #google #aiethics #genai #youtube #creativity #ux #media #contentmoderation #algorithm

YouTube Expands AI’s Role in the Creator Economy

6 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Youtube CEO Outlines 2026 Vision: AI Tools for Creators, Fight Against Low-quality Content

6 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

YouTube to launch AI likeness management tools for creators

6 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

YouTube Creators Can Soon Make Shorts With Their Own AI Likeness

6 wks / analyticsindiamag / Smruthi Nadig

YouTube relaxes monetization policy on videos with controversial content

techxplore - YouTube is updating its guidelines for videos containing content that advertisers define as controversial, allowing more creators to earn full ad revenue when they tackle sensitive issues in a nongraphic way.

#techpolicy #digitalmarketing #google #youtube #business #media #contentmoderation #ads #advertising #regulation

YouTube relaxes monetization policy on videos with controversial content

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YouTube relaxes monetization policy on videos with controversial content

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Over 100 Classic Sesame Street Episodes Just Dropped on YouTube Kids

Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Sesame Street just became a lot easier to find. YouTube and Sesame Workshop announced today that the platform is now the largest digital home for the show, dumping a massive “treasure trove” of full episodes and classic clips online for families. The move…

#elearning #entertainment #youtube #alphabet #culture #apps #community #media #tv #broadcasting

Over 100 Classic Sesame Street Episodes Just Dropped on YouTube Kids

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

YouTube Is Now Streaming Iconic Episodes of Sesame Street

7 wks / cnet / Meara Isenberg

MrBeast Eyes DeFi as Tom Lee's Ethereum Treasury BitMine Invests $200 Million

André Beganski / decrypt - BitMine Immersion Technologies unveiled a $200 million investment in Beast Industries, a company founded by YouTube creator MrBeast.

#startups #blockchain #crypto #decentralisation #entertainment #youtube #business #mining #media

The Daily: Bank of America’s $6T stablecoin warning, BitMine’s $200M MrBeast investment, X’s InfoFi policy change hits Kaito token, and more

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MrBeast Eyes DeFi as Tom Lee's Ethereum Treasury BitMine Invests $200 Million

7 wks / decrypt / André Beganski

Bitmine’s $200M MrBeast Investment: Crypto Meets Creator Economy - Azat TV

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Ethereum treasury firm BitMine invests $200 million in MrBeast’s Beast Industries

7 wks / theblock / Naga Avan-Nomayo

Tom Lee's Bitmine Immersion invests $200 million in YouTube star MrBeast’s company

7 wks / coindesk / Francisco Rodrigues

Parents can now set limits on YouTube Shorts for teen accounts

mashable - YouTube launches new safety features for teen accounts, including screen time controls for Shorts and age-appropriate algorithm for recommendations.