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Tracks get one of three labels: “Fully Gen AI,” “Partly Gen AI” or “No Gen AI.” Labels come from what music partners declare plus YouTube’s own detection. They show on the player page, where a tap explains AI’s role, and in the main YouTube app.

Google’s newest frontier model is now available to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Google says replies are more direct with less padding, and coding is much stronger.

A security researcher published a writeup describing how a Flask session using Python's pickle format on a Google DevSite service allowed remote code execution, earning a $90,000 bounty.

A widely shared essay shows how a website can recognize a device by measuring things like its graphics chip, processor, screen, fonts and language settings. You don't have to approve anything, and the result stays the same after you clear cookies or switch on a VPN. The author argues that Google stepped back from its promise to end third-party cookies and now allows device fingerprinting in its ad products. The essay says Brave adds small random noise to these readings, while Tor and Mullvad Browser make every user look the same.

Finland's Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) told Google to suspend work at two data-centre sites, in Muhos and Kajaani, by 23 October at the latest. The work can resume once the required environmental impact assessments are done. The Guardian reports that the company working for Google cleared 330 hectares of forest in Muhos before the assessment was finished. The sites are part of a €13bn project in northern Finland. Google said it had "fallen short of our own high standards" and will follow the regulator's guidance.