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YouTube Premium Is Getting A Price Hike Around The Globe
European, Asian, and Middle Eastern users are already reporting that they’ve been told the service is about to become more expensive.

YouTube is notifying Premium subscribers outside of the United States that they’ll soon have to pay more for the service, according to status updates from users on social media over the weekend.
So far, the price hikes are being reported in multiple regions, including parts of Europe, the Middle East, and South America, according to the website Android Authority.
The price increases will have an effect on both individual and family plans. In certain EU countries, users have complained that family plans will soon rise from €17.99 to €25.99 (or €11.99 to €13.99 for YouTube Premium individuals) from November 7th. Similar increases are being reported in places like Singapore, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia.
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The price increases will be familiar to US users, who have already experienced similar rises. YouTube’s individual Premium plans went from $11.99 to $13.99 in the US several months after the video platform raised its family plan subscription from $17.99 to $22.99. Other streaming services have also bumped up their prices in the last few months, including Disney Plus, Max, and Paramount Plus.
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Google Releases Veo 2 AI Video Tool To MENA Users
The state-of-the-art video generation model is now available in Gemini, offering realistic AI-generated videos with better physics, motion, and detail.

Starting today, users of Gemini Advanced in the MENA region — and globally — can tap into Veo 2, Google’s next-generation video model.
Originally unveiled in 2024, Veo 2 has now been fully integrated into Gemini, supporting multiple languages including Arabic and English. The rollout now brings Google’s most advanced video AI directly into the hands of everyday users.
Veo 2 builds on the foundations of its predecessor with a more sophisticated understanding of the physical world. It’s designed to produce high-fidelity video content with cinematic detail, realistic motion, and greater visual consistency across a wide range of subjects and styles. Whether recreating natural landscapes, human interactions, or stylized environments, the model is capable of interpreting and translating written prompts into eight-second 720p videos that feel almost handcrafted.
Users can generate content directly through the Gemini platform — either via the web or mobile apps. The experience is pretty straightforward: users enter a text-based prompt, and Veo 2 returns a video in 16:9 landscape format, delivered as an MP4 file. These aren’t just generic clips — they can reflect creative, abstract, or highly specific scenarios, making the tool especially useful for content creators, marketers, or anyone experimenting with visual storytelling.
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To ensure transparency, each video is embedded with SynthID — a digital watermark developed by Google’s DeepMind. The watermark is invisible to the human eye but persists across editing, compression, and sharing. It identifies the video as AI-generated, addressing concerns around misinformation and media authenticity.
While Veo 2 is still in its early phases of public rollout, the technology is part of a broader push by Google to democratize advanced AI tools. With text-to-image, code generation, and now video creation integrated into Gemini, Google is positioning the platform as a full-spectrum creative assistant.
Access to Veo 2 starts today and will continue expanding in the coming weeks. Interested users can try it out at gemini.google.com or through the Gemini app on Android and iOS.