YouTube announces Courses in India, letting teachers post videos and reading materials for free or for a fee in several regional languages, rolling out “soon” (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

James Vincent / The Verge:
Google details an AI model trained on 400+ languages with the largest “coverage seen in a speech model” and plans to expand to the 1,000 most spoken languages  —  Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world’s “1,000 most spoken languages.”

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google says its multisearch tool, which lets users search using both images and text, will expand to more than 70 languages in the next few months  —  Google’s impressive multisearch tool, which lets you search using both an image and some text, will be expanding to more than 70 global languages …

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:
Meta AI unveils an open-source translator for languages that are primarily spoken rather than written, which can currently translate between Hokkien and English  —  Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Responding to user feedback, YouTube splits video content into three tabs on channel pages: Videos, Shorts, and Live  —  YouTube is rolling out a change impacting how videos appear on its platform.  The company today announced a redesign that now splits video content into three different tabs …

Reuters:
Applied Materials says US export controls on chips and chipmaking tech to China would result in a $250M-$550M loss in net sales in the quarter ending October 30  —  Chip-making technology supplier Applied Materials Inc (AMAT.O)said on Wednesday export restrictions to China would result …

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
The European Central Bank says that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions” and is on the “road to irrelevance”, without citing any strong data points  —  European Central Bank officials alleged on Wednesday that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions …