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YouTube Down, Warner Bros. Sues Over AI Videos

YouTube experienced a widespread outage on Tuesday evening, February 17, 2026, with hundreds of thousands of users reporting technical difficulties accessing the platform. The outage, which began around 5:00 p.m. PT, affected core features of YouTube, according to reports.

Reports on DownDetector indicated that over 300,000 users were experiencing issues. The outage appeared to be primarily affecting the core YouTube platform, although YouTube TV was also impacted to a lesser extent. According to Ben Schoon of 9to5Google, the outage began around 4:45 p.m. PT and expanded rapidly. Some users saw partial restoration of services as early as 6:00 p.m. PT, according to Variety.

The outage was widely reported across social media. While the exact cause of the outage was not immediately clear, a separate incident was reported on the Google Trust Services Status Dashboard, affecting the ACME API. This incident, which began at 11:18 a.m. PT, was impacting issuance, with a fix expected to roll out in approximately eight hours.

In other news, Warner Bros. criticized ByteDance for AI-generated videos featuring its intellectual property. The studio, along with others, accused the Chinese company of facilitating user-generated knockoffs of its iconic characters.

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