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Google makes it easier to edit Drive videos with a new Vids shortcut button

Google makes it easier to edit Drive videos with a new Vids shortcut button

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Image Credits:Google Cloud 8:33 AM PDT · August 22, 2025 Google announced Friday that it’s enhancing the editing experience for Drive videos with a new shortcut button for Vids, the tech giant’s AI-powered video-creation tool.  The new feature allows Workspace users to initiate a video edit using Vids directly from the Google Drive interface. Now

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YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify

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YouTube is celebrating 10 years of its YouTube Music app on Thursday with the launch of new features that bring it closer to rival Spotify and others. The app will now include “Taste Match” playlists, which are playlists that combine multiple users’ overlapping interests, similar to Spotify Blend. The app will also start notifying users

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Google’s AI Mode expands globally, adds new agentic features

Google’s AI Mode expands globally, adds new agentic features

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Google is launching a global expansion of AI Mode, its feature that allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search, the company announced on Thursday. The tech giant is also bringing new agentic and personalized capabilities to the feature. As part of the expansion, Google is

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Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

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Meta is rolling out an AI-powered voice translation feature to all users on Facebook and Instagram globally, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages so it can be viewed by a broader audience. The feature

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Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

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Image Credits:Eric Slomonson, The Photo Group 10:07 AM PDT · August 19, 2025 TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 lands in San Francisco from October 27-29, and the Expo Hall is already packed with early adopters, startup scouts, and enterprise buyers looking to discover what’s next. If you’re not there to show off your product, your competitors will

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‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

‘Crazy conspiracist’ and ‘unhinged comedian’: Grok’s AI persona prompts exposed

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The website for xAI’s Grok chatbot is exposing the system prompts for several of its AI personas, including a “crazy conspiracist” that seems designed to handhold a user into beliefs that “a secret global cabal” controls the world. TechCrunch has confirmed the system prompt exposure, first reported on by 404 Media. They include instructions for

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