France X Age Verification, YouTube Ad Blockers

France is planning to classify Twitter/X as an ‘X-rated site’. If successful, age verification would be mandatory. France is planning to ban social media for kids under 15 years of age.

Disney & Universal have sued AI company ‘Midjourney’ for copyright infringement

Walmart is planning to expand their ‘drone-delivery’ service to five new major cities in the U.S.

YouTube users have reported receiving messages warning against ad blockers, preventing them from watching videos

ChatGPT allegedly got “wrecked” by an emulated Atari 2600 in a game of Video Chess. The console is 48 years old.

YouTube announced that beginning on the 31st of March, Shorts views will count the number of times your Short starts to play or replay, with no minimum watch time requirement. 

Hi! Jumping in to clarify - RPM is based on the "Engaged views" metric (the historic way of counting Shorts views) so nothing will change. Creators also won't see a difference in how earnings are calculated. Let us know if you have more questions, we're here to help.