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YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them

Part of the job of a content creator is to figure out how to get their work in front of the most people. Cracking — or fighting — the algorithm has historically been a frustration for creators, but YouTube is increasingly simply telling creators what they should do.

At the annual creator-focused Made on YouTube event, the company announced updates to the suite of AI-powered creator tools it unveiled in 2025. In its initial iteration, the dashboard of creator tools included things like A/B testing for video thumbnails and a chatbot interface to query how content was performing. This year’s update adds AI tools for more complex tasks.

Perhaps most significantly, YouTube is introducing an AI “agent” that will work in the background to optimize a creator’s channel. For example, the tool will monitor a creator’s back catalog of videos, looking for content that has taken on a new...

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Upwind acquires Aegis as cybersecurity firm builds new AI Security Labs

ByteDance brought in nearly 75% of Nscale’s 2025 sales, the FT reports

OpenAI opens its Daybreak cyber defence programme to Ukraine