The Showdown Between Apple and Spotify
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Business is evolving fast, and hearing how others are adapting can make all the difference. |
| 0:04.9 | Hear perspectives from global executives as they share what's working, what's changing, and what they think lies ahead on the Executive Insights podcast, available in all major podcast platforms. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Friday, September 19th. I'm Bellin for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:26.3 | Google is making it easier for creators to access artificial intelligence, introducing a new AI generator tool into YouTube for anyone to use. |
| 0:37.3 | WSJ reporter and Marie Alcantara tells us what that means for app users, including why we could see a lot more AI and AI slop in our YouTube feeds. |
| 0:48.3 | Then, music streaming service Spotify's rebellion against Apple is working. Following years of efforts by Spotify, |
| 0:56.8 | Apple's future as a toll taker at the center of the app economy is unclear. But first, YouTube |
| 1:08.1 | is entering its AI era. |
| 1:17.4 | The video streaming company is now letting creators use Google's AI video generator inside the platform, |
| 1:22.2 | giving users the ability to make short videos with just a text prompt. |
| 1:25.7 | Like this one that was prompted by the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:29.7 | Come with me to my 9 to 5 job before I head to a concert later. |
| 1:35.9 | Those are the types of short videos that could soon be flooding YouTube feeds. |
| 1:40.1 | WSJ reporter Anne-Marie Alcantara joins us now to discuss. |
| 1:46.2 | Anne-Marie, give us a rundown of the top AI features that YouTube is adding to its platform. |
| 1:55.1 | So the biggest one is that V-O-3, which was just released in May, it's like Google's AI video generator with sound, and that's coming to YouTube shorts for free. |
| 2:02.6 | And then there's other few more features that are coming to YouTube shorts, like editing with AI or adding an object or motion to a video or even giving it a little stylized look depending on what you're looking for, |
| 2:07.9 | you know, a comic bookie and that sort of stuff to your shorts. And how realistic are the shorts |
| 2:13.1 | or the videos that are created with V-O-3 on YouTube. In other words, will we be able to tell |
| 2:19.3 | that they're AI generated? Like with any AI product that we're using these days, it kind of |
| 2:24.8 | depends on your prompting. You know, if you are iterating on the prompt or give it a really |
| 2:29.3 | strong prompt, you'll definitely most likely get better results just because you're being more |
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