Kristian Kask

1 week ago | pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee

Last fall, Google launched the Audio Overview feature for its AI tool NotebookLM, which allows you to AI-generate a podcast where two AI voices “discuss” the content of your documents. Now Engadget reports that Google has begun experimenting in a very similar way using Audio Overviews in its search engine. If you submit a longer or more complex Google search query, Audio Overview can kick in and produce a small podcast where two AI voices discuss the answer to your query.

2 weeks ago | pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Laura Pippig |Joel Lee

If you’re already fed up with the amount of ads you see on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service, there could be a reason. Amazon has quietly begun running twice as many ads between movies and TV shows than it did a year ago, reports AdWeek. When the streaming service began showing ads early in 2024, the commercial breaks were supposed to be between 2 and 3.5 minutes per hour.

2 weeks ago | pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Laura Pippig |Joel Lee

If you’re already fed up with the amount of ads you see on the Amazon Prime Video streaming service, we have bad news. You may soon be forced to watch twice as many ads between movies and TV shows, reports AdWeek. When the streaming service began showing ads earlier this year, the commercial breaks were supposed to be between 2 and 3.5 minutes per hour. In a new email to advertisers, Amazon now states that the commercial breaks have been expanded to 4 to 6 minutes per hour.

2 weeks ago | pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee

AI-generated summaries are low-hanging fruit for apps and services that want to jump on the AI bandwagon, as we’ve seen with Copilot, Google Drive, Amazon, and Adobe Acrobat. Recently, even the Wikimedia Foundation gave it a go with AI summaries in Wikipedia. Now, however, 404 Media reports that those plans have been put on hold after facing heavy criticism from Wikipedia’s human volunteer editors. You can read the editors’ discussion . Apple’s WWDC 2025 takes place June 9-13.

2 weeks ago | pcworld.com | Kristian Kask |Joel Lee

BleepingComputer reports that AI company OpenAI has suffered a major outage today affecting several of the company’s AI services, including AI chatbot ChatGPT and AI video generator Sora. Though you can still access ChatGPT, it currently takes an unusually long time to respond and may end up responding with error messages. Similar issues with error rates and increased latency are affecting Sora and OpenAI’s API, which could affect third-party services. Apple’s WWDC 2025 takes place June 9-13.