YouTube, new leader of US media industry, bets on AI as key for creating content

On its 20th birthday, YouTube is unrecognisable as the scrappy video site that began as the domain of young amateur users publishing unpolished, low-budget clips. Commanding 2.7 billion users, including celebrities like British pop star Dua Lipa who share professional-grade content, YouTube has become the most popular way for Americans to watch TV and is expected to eclipse industry leader Disney's media revenue this year. On Tuesday at the company's annual Made on YouTube product launch event, executives at the platform - owned by Alphabet's Google - laid out a vision of how YouTube planned to dominate the airwaves in the coming decades: with AI. YouTube spent much of the event championing its video creators as the future of media...