YouTube just announced a bunch of AI tools for creators (www.engadget.com)

YouTube unveiled a suite of creator tools that lean heavily on AI to automate and speed up video production. Highlights include an AI editor that can turn raw clips into a “compelling first draft” — complete with music, transitions and voiceover — currently in testing and rolling out in the coming weeks. New synthetic voiceovers in English and Hindi will arrive later this year via the YouTube Create app and Shorts, plus tech that converts video dialogue into catchy Shorts soundtracks. Veo 3 is being expanded inside Shorts to generate higher-quality, sound-enabled videos from text prompts with improved prompt matching and options to animate or stylize characters. YouTube Studio gains a conversational AI assistant for analytics (rolling out now), and non-AI updates include multi-person collaborations (up to four creators) and A/B title testing. For the AI/ML community this signals a push from experimentation to production-grade, end-to-end multimodal systems: text-to-video, text-to-speech, audio generation and automated editing pipelines integrated directly into a massive distribution platform. Improved prompt matching and Veo 3 enhancements suggest ongoing advances in conditioning and quality-of-output for text-to-video models. These moves will expand demand for scalable, controllable generative models and moderation tools, while raising technical and policy questions around provenance, voice consent, copyright of generated music/audio, and detecting misuse or deepfakes.