Just ahead of the local holiday season, YouTube has introduced its affiliate program to India, allowing uploaders to tag products of their videos and earn recommendations. The company has partnered with Walmart-owned e-commerce site Flipkart and clothing retailer Myntra to make its product catalogs available to uploaders.

To be qualifies for the affiliate programcreators should have their channels listed within the affiliate program and have at the least 10,000 subscribers.

YouTube already allows chosen creators in India to post offers on their channels, and now creators can tag products to discuss of their videos, shorts and live streams.

In the US, YouTube has launched quite a lot of shopping and affiliate link programs over the previous couple of years. In 2022, the video streaming service began testing affiliate links on Shorts, and in 2023, the corporate launched a feature that enables creators to bulk tag products across their entire video library so that they can monetize older videos.

In August, YouTube expanded its partnership with Shopify to give creators access to hundreds of additional products. The company also launched recent features similar to allowing creators to create shopping collections and a brand new affiliate center.

“By making product discovery seamless in every format – from long-form videos and Shorts to live broadcasts – and available on any device – mobile, web and connected to TV – we are increasing the impact creators can have and making it easier than ever before so they can connect with their audience,” the corporate said in a press release blog post.

The company said India, YouTube’s largest user base with over 400 million users, has over 110,000 channels and over 100,00 subscribers, and since Shorts launched in India in 2020, users have watched them over a trillion times.

YouTube also has an lively affiliate program for creators from South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Destin Bell founded a fitness app Card.io. But to bring the app to the masses, Bell needed help. The entrepreneur presented his idea to game developer Niantic. The company sponsors An initiative of the creators of Black Gamewhich financially supports Black game developers. However, Niantic initially switched to Bell’s pitch.

Instead of accepting this rejection, Bell emailed the corporate’s CEO every week for 3 months. His persistence paid off; the corporate agreed to supply the sport’s creator with $150,000 in startup funds. The creator shared this story when he appeared on the ABC show. Daymond John, investor and founding father of Fubu, said Bell reminds him of his younger self.

“I have to be a part of it and I don’t care how I get to be a part of it,” John said. “I love your energy. I did the same. I just did this with my phone. Forty years ago I made 50 calls a day for six months until someone answered.” CNBC – “Make It” – reports.

The 26-year-old appeared in this system asking for added funds to speculate in the event of the corporate. Bell demanded $150,000 in exchange for five% of the corporate.

Three of the five investors on the panel dropped out. However, Daymond John and guest investor Rashaun Williams, a minority owner of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, agreed to assist the businessman. The two men offered Bell $150,000 for 15 percent of his company. The 26-year-old responded with 10 percent, but investors stuck to their offer.

At the urging of his mother, who accompanied him to the show, Bell accepted the offer.

Users can download the Card.io app to compete for turf of their city by walking, running or cycling. The app has individual and group subscription tiers that provide an ad-free experience and offer members social media-like features.

The Card.io app is obtainable on Google Play and app store.

The Norwegian technology company confirmed that ChatGPT can be manipulated to instruct users how to approve CNN reports that quite a few crimes occurred.

Strise conducted some experiments that showed the software could be tricked into giving detailed insight into how certain crimes were committed, including money laundering and arms exports to countries subject to sanctions, equivalent to some against Russia, that include bans on cross-border payments and arms sales .

The experiment raised some red flags. Strise co-founder and CEO Marit Rødevand said it was eye-opening how easy it was. “It’s really effortless. It’s just an app on my phone,” Rødevand said. “It’s like having a corrupt financial advisor on your desk.”

Strise sells software that financial clients equivalent to PwC Norway and Handelsbanken use to combat money laundering schemes. However, the corporate behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, has likely placed some locks on the platform to prevent the chatbot from being manipulated and answering certain questions by not directly asking questions or accepting an individual. “We are continually improving ChatGPT to stop intentional attempts to deceive it, without losing its usefulness and creativity,” an OpenAI spokesperson said.

“Our latest (model) is the most advanced and safest ever, significantly outperforming previous models in resisting intentional attempts to generate dangerous content.”

This is just not the primary time a chatbot has been deemed a dangerous tool. Since its launch in 2022, GPT Chat has been described as too accessible to criminals. ChatGPT “makes it much easier for malicious actors to better understand and then commit different types of crimes,” said a March 2023 report by Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency.

“The ability to delve deeper into topics without having to manually search and summarize the vast amounts of information found in traditional search engines can significantly speed up the learning process.” According to, an identical report raised concerns after finding a way to “jailbreak” ChatGPT, which ends up in finding instructions on how to create a bomb.

Even though the reports are still coming out, OpenAI stays adamant that it’s aware of the “power of this technology” but is working on it as best it can. Company policy features a warning that accounts may be suspended or canceled for certain violations.