About this episode

The episode discusses YouTube's testing of an AI-powered search feature and reports on social media scams causing significant consumer losses.

FTC reports consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams in 2025; Snapchat brings AI-powered conversational advertising to its app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• YouTube
• AI
• social media scams
• advertising
• technology news

Keywords

• YouTube
• AI
• search feature
• social media
• scams
• Snapchat
• advertising

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FTC, Snapchat

Products: AI-powered search feature

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