Running a photography business can be incredible fun, offering unique experiences and opportunities to meet diverse people. However, it requires significant dedication and effort, often demanding extra hours beyond a typical workweek.
VOID stands for Video Object and Interaction Deletion. It's a VLM (vision-language model) that can not only erase objects from a scene but can also inpaint how remaining objects in the scene should behave without the influence of whatever was excised.
Having announced that over a million channels used YouTube's AI creation tools daily in December, the platform recently launched Ingredients to Video in Shorts and the YouTube Create app. YouTube Ingredients breaks down what's helping a video perform well-things like format, topics, and creative elements viewers respond to. It's designed to give creators practical guidance on what to keep, tweak, or test next so they can make videos that are more likely to get views and engagement.
YouTube is expanding its test of variable channel subscriber notification frequency, which reduces the amount of push notifications that are sent to subscribers if they don't regularly engage with a channel's content. YouTube originally launched its variable notifications as a test last March, with the aim of reducing overwhelm, which can often lead to people switching off push notifications entirely. And that experiment has obviously gone well, because now, YouTube is expanding it to more subscribers.
On Jan. 21, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan released a lengthy blog post about what creators can expect in 2026, outlining upcoming changes poised to drastically affect creator experiences on the platform. The changes show just how much YouTube is willing to flex to keep itself ahead of the game - whether that's competing with big streamers like Netflix and platforms like TikTok, cracking down on AI slop, or expanding upon the way creators can get paid.