AI Powering Safer YouTube for Teens

From protecting teens online to automating complex data workflows and pushing generative video to cinematic levels—AI continues to expand its impact across industries. Here are the key updates you should know:ackle deforestation, food security, and environmental crises.

🛡️ YouTube Enhances Teen Safety with AI
YouTube rolls out AI-based age estimation in the U.S. to better protect teens—disabling personalized ads, limiting certain content, and enabling digital wellbeing tools.

🤖 Meet NEO: The Autonomous ML Engineer
NEO automates end-to-end machine learning workflows—from data ingestion to model deployment—achieving medal-level performance on real Kaggle competitions with minimal human input.

🎬 Sora 2 by OpenAI: Realistic AI Video Gets a Voice
OpenAI’s upcoming Sora 2 will add realistic speech, lip-sync, and immersive audio to AI-generated videos, pushing the boundaries of cinematic-quality content creation.

Let’s break down what these mean for creators, developers, and the future of intelligent systems 👇

YouTube Expands Teen Safety with AI Age Estimation

YouTube is expanding its built-in protections for more US teens by using machine learning age estimation technology. This AI estimates a user's age based on signals like types of videos searched, viewed categories, and account longevity, independently of the account birthdate. When a user is identified as a teen, YouTube automatically applies age-appropriate experiences, including disabling personalized ads, enabling digital wellbeing tools (screen time and bedtime reminders), and limiting repetitive recommendations of certain content types. If the AI misclassifies a user as under 18, they can verify their age with a credit card or government ID to access age-restricted content. This technology, already used in other markets, aims to make YouTube safer for teens while respecting privacy and will roll out to more users gradually after initial US testing. YouTube continues to invest in providing safe, age-appropriate experiences for younger audiences and collaborates with creators to ensure ecosystem benefits from these updates.

NEO: The Autonomous Machine Learning Engineer Revolutionizing ML Workflows

NEO is a fully autonomous machine learning engineer designed to automate the entire ML workflow, from data ingestion and feature engineering to model experimentation, deployment, and monitoring. By leveraging advanced deep learning and language models, NEO breaks down complex ML tasks into manageable steps, continuously refining results with minimal human input. It includes a "human in the loop" mode for interactive collaboration, providing developers control and transparency. Tested on 75 real Kaggle competitions, NEO achieved medal-winning performance in over 34% of runs, outperforming notable AI agents. This innovative AI agent aims to drastically speed up ML engineering workflows, allowing engineers to focus on innovation rather than repetitive grunt work. NEO is preparing for early beta release, inviting users to join its waitlist.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Aims to Revolutionize AI Video with Realistic Speech

OpenAI is developing Sora 2, a major upgrade to its AI text-to-video model that will add realistic speech, lip-sync, and immersive sound effects to videos. Competing with Google’s Veo 3, Sora 2 targets longer clips with natural audio integration and cinematic quality. If successful, it will enable richer creative and professional video projects, potentially at a more accessible price through ChatGPT Plus or Pro. While addressing ethical concerns around voice and image misuse, Sora 2 is poised to set new standards in generative video, focusing on both visual and sound realism to enhance user experience.

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Top AI Products from this week

• Launch - Launch builds real products from a single prompt- frontend, backend, a built-in database, and live integrations. No Supabase. No Zapier. When you’re stuck, a real human helps you debug and ship. From idea to live app in minutes, with support you can trust.

• Kombai - The first domain-specific AI for frontend tasks beyond prototypes. Build entire app UIs, refactor code, or create components from Figma, text, image or code. Understands your codebase. Works in your IDE. Vastly outperforms generic agents + frontier models.

• Mocha - Mocha is an AI-powered no‑code app builder that turns your idea into a live website in minutes. No coding skills needed – perfect for ambitious entrepreneurs.

• Sparrow - Sparrow is now lighter, faster, smarter, and AI-powered. From natural language API calls to self-hosting, it’s a complete package of modern API testing. Built for speed, clarity, and control—no clutter, just flow. Experience the new Sparrow.

• GLM-4.5 - Official Z.ai platform to experience our new, MIT-licensed GLM models (Base, Reasoning, Rumination). Simple UI focuses on model interaction. Free.

• Okibi - A web app to build AI agents using simple prompts, You can think of it as Lovable but for Agents! Build automations and agents with no effort: generate agent code see agent's flow one click to publish your agent templates to get started easily

This week in AI

• ElevenLabs AI Voice Changer - ElevenLabs’ AI Voice Changer lets you transform your voice with full control over tone, emotion, and delivery. Access thousands of voices and customize easily.

• AI Empowers CRISPR Editing - CRISPR-GPT uses AI agents to automate and guide gene-editing experiments for all skill levels, speeding research and ensuring safety in gene therapy development.

• Stargate Norway AI Hub - OpenAI’s Stargate Norway is a green AI data center with 230MW capacity, 100,000 GPUs by 2026, powering Europe’s AI growth with renewable energy and efficient cooling.

• Shortcut AI Excel Agent - Shortcut AI is an agentic Excel tool that automates complex spreadsheet tasks like financial models and analyses, boosting productivity for finance and consulting pros.

• Poe API Access - Poe API gives developers unified access to 100+ AI models for text, image, voice, and video with an OpenAI-compatible interface, flexible points, and seamless model switching.

Paper of The Day

Seed-Prover is a state-of-the-art large language model designed for formal mathematical theorem proving using Lean 4. It uses a lemma-style proving approach, generating and refining intermediate lemmas to build complex proofs efficiently. Through iterative proof refinement guided by compiler feedback and self-summarization, Seed-Prover can handle deep and broad reasoning tasks. Complemented by Seed-Geometry, a specialized reasoning engine for geometry, the system achieves rapid and accurate solutions for challenging problems, including those from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Seed-Prover outperforms previous models across multiple benchmarks, proving 78.1% of past IMO problems and surpassing prior state-of-the-art results on MiniF2F, PutnamBench, and others. The framework employs multi-stage reinforcement learning with diverse prompting to enhance adaptability, and offers scalable inference strategies ranging from light to heavy settings for tackling problems of varying difficulty. This advancement marks a significant breakthrough in automated formal mathematical reasoning.

To read the whole paper, go to here.