YouTube is rolling out a new system to identify AI-generated content on the platform. The company said: “If a creator doesn’t specify whether they used AI, but our systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, we will now automatically apply a label.” Creators are expected to disclose when they use AI to create realistic-looking videos or scenes. If they don’t, YouTube’s detection systems may now add the label automatically. This is part of a broader push for transparency as AI-generated videos, voices, and images become harder to distinguish from real content.

YouTube Premium is blocking some IP addresses from Mullvad VPN so when you try to watch videos with strict regional rules like Formula 1 or the Olympics you see this message "To continue turn off your VPN or proxy This will allow YouTube to locate the best content" This does not block the whole YouTube site and only affects videos with regional licensing limits. YouTube is doing this to follow agreements with the companies that own the rights to those videos while most regular videos still work fine with the VPN active. The same issue also happens with some other VPNs like Surfshark and Proton not just Mullvad

YouTuber Geekerwan has studied a leaked Nintendo Switch 2 motherboard and discovered that the custom chip has 8 Arm CPU cores and 1,536 NVIDIA graphics cores made with Samsung 8nm technology at a size of 207 mm² with 12GB of fast memory. Performance when docked to a TV is expected to be between Apple’s A18 Pro and a GTX 1050 Ti, while in handheld mode it is closer to a GTX 750 Ti or PlayStation 4 and similar to the Steam Deck. Although the hardware is based on older designs, features like DLSS, ray tracing, and special game optimizations could still make it run games very well.

YouTube’s website is currently affected by a major bug that causes individual video tabs to consume over 7 GB of RAM. Users are experiencing severe lag, frozen tabs, and in some cases the entire browser becomes unresponsive. The issue stems from an endless loop in how the interface handles the action buttons below the video player (Like, Share, Save, etc.). The layout code repeatedly shows and hides buttons as it tries to fit them into the available space, triggering constant browser recalculations. This bug impacts Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, and other browsers. A reliable temporary fix is to block the problematic menu using an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin. Add this filter: www(.)youtube(.)com###menu# This removes the buttons under the player but immediately stops the memory leak and freezing.

YouTube has introduced a new side-by-side ad format for livestreams. The main video player shrinks to make room for ads displayed alongside it on both desktop and mobile. While the ad plays, the livestream audio is muted, so viewers hear the commercial instead of the stream. Many users report it disrupts immersion during gaming, sports, and chat-heavy broadcasts. Viewers are also noticing more sponsored content appearing in the subscriptions feed. This is being widely viewed as a push toward YouTube Premium, which recently rose to $15.99 per month for individual subscribers.