Aparna Pappu, a Google veteran now leading YouTube Shorts as VP for creator community, outlined how the platform is using YouTube-wide thinking to grow short-form video. YouTube Shorts averages 200 billion daily views. The team is aiming to improve video understanding and recommendations with Google DeepMind expertise while adding creator tools like automatic thumbnail generation and pushing to reduce low-quality content, including AI-related material.
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat, NVIDIA and Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs launched the UGM Indosat NVIDIA AI Technology Center in Yogyakarta to build local AI talent. The center launched this week and provides access to accelerated computing via Indosat’s GPU Merdeka platform. It enables three initial AI projects in healthcare, agriculture, and disaster response by giving researchers enterprise-grade resources and technical mentorship.
The blog discusses Spotify’s plan to tag some artists as AI-generated and not promote them, framing it as a sign that AI content may be reaching a rejection tipping point on platforms. The specific change is that Spotify will begin tagging AI-generated artists and withholding promotion for them. As a result, the article argues platforms and audiences will increasingly limit or deprioritize AI-generated content using detection and user signals like clicks and time on page.
Dell Technologies’ new report says UK SMEs are using AI to improve business performance and competitiveness. It surveyed 2,013 SME decision-makers and found AI frees up an average of 2.5 hours per employee each week. The findings highlight that SMEs can focus AI on defined use cases and broader toolkits to gain more time, strategic work opportunities, and faster adoption outcomes.
Guardian Labs created Guardião, an app that uses locally running AI to analyze incoming SMS and phone calls and block likely scams before they ring or reach the user. The company’s initial product concept came from a hackathon win in February and the founder described four water filters bought for about €1,000 each instead of their roughly €20 value. Guardian Labs now works with Portugal’s public security police, universities, and an accelerator and is also building a B2B intelligence platform to help banks and telecom operators detect and stop scam campaigns.
Dating apps including Bumble and Tinder are changing away from maximizing swipe activity toward more intentional interactions as paying-user and usage declines continue. Tinder’s Events tab expanded to 10 U.S. and European cities as of March with plans to reach 75 by year’s end. The shift drives more in-person/event features and AI-supported matchmaking while companies raise prices and rework app mechanics rather than only optimizing for swipe volume.
Uber is expanding its robotaxi push across Europe with an expanded partnership with Pony.ai, including adding more of Pony.ai’s self-driving taxis onto the Uber platform. The rollout involves more than 2,000 robotaxis across four European cities. This expands commercial deployment in Europe by building on the May 2025 partnership and adds new city coverage beyond the earlier Zagreb launch.
Apple trained a China-focused AI model with help from Alibaba, according to Reuters sources.
The model is described as a large language model trained with Alibaba’s support.
Apple’s approach would shift from its prior strategy in China, giving it more control as it competes in the Chinese smartphone market.
Investors are modelling an Anthropic IPO valuation of $2 trillion or more for an October listing, positioning the Claude maker above SpaceX’s June IPO valuation. The modeled figure is $2T+ and would exceed SpaceX’s $1.77T valuation. The market narrative shifts toward treating Anthropic’s expected IPO as a potential record-setting largest IPO, despite Anthropic’s executives not setting that target themselves.
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