YouTube has announced two big additions to its $8-a-month Premium Lite -- the ability to download videos and the option to keep videos playing in the background for "most videos." Previously, these were reserved for the $14-a-month Premium option.
Last October, PayPal an integration with OpenAI so that ChatGPT users could transact within the app. Apparently, PayPal is now ready to take that idea to other retailer chatbots. Of course, now that ChatGPT is making its foray into advertising , other LLMs and chatbots are bound to follow suit, if they haven't already done so. Walmart, for instance, rolled out ads in its generative AI agent Sparky earlier this month.
YouTube TV is getting ready to launch two major updates that will allow you to watch multiple non-sports channels simultaneously, as well as choose from 10 new paid plans focused on a range of topics, including sports, entertainment, and news. In his annual letter to users, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says both of these changes will arrive "soon." YouTube TV has been slowly expanding its multiview feature over the past few years.
As we said, we do plan to put the two services together, which today gives us a little over 200 million direct to consumer subscribers. We do plan for that to be able to operate with independence, so that HBO can, candidly, do what it does incredibly well.
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