YouTube is taking a much stronger stance on AI-generated content as the platform faces a growing wave of realistic synthetic videos, deepfakes, and misleading media. In a major update announced this week, the company revealed that it will now automatically label videos that make “significant photorealistic AI” use, even if creators fail to disclose it themselves. The move marks one of the most aggressive transparency efforts yet by a major social media platform as generative

Digg is returning once again, but this time it is taking a very different approach from its earlier comeback attempt. The once-popular link-sharing site, originally founded by Kevin Rose in 2004, is now being redesigned as an AI-focused news aggregator. Instead of trying to directly compete with Reddit as a community forum, the new Digg is focused on helping users sort through the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence and identify the stories, voices, and conversations

A new issue brief from the United Nations Department of Global Communications and the Conscious Advertising Network warns that the rapid and largely unregulated adoption of artificial intelligence in the advertising industry could significantly deepen a global information integrity crisis. The report, titled Strengthening Information Integrity: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis, argues that advertising sits at the core of the digital infor

Google is expanding its experimentation with AI in news delivery, rolling out a pilot program that brings AI-powered article overviews to select publications’ Google News pages. Participating outlets include major international publishers such as Der Spiegel, El País, Folha, Infobae, Kompas, The Guardian, The Times of India, The Washington Examiner, and The Washington Post, all of whom have agreed to test how AI might surface more context for readers before they click throu