1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,840 What's that tech industry? You can do whatever you want. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,920 You're immune to the laws of God and man. Oh, no, no, no, no, we're gonna stop 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,560 by talking about your activities in a kind of sassy way. 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,560 Oh, it's over for you. YouTube is now the world's largest 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:24,120 asterisk media company by revenue. YouTube's $62 billion in 2025 revenue beat even Disney, 6 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,920 which came just short at $61 billion. 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,880 Although it does exclude Disney's theme parks and cruises and merch. 8 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,320 YouTube won't catch up until they do that too. I don't even want to imagine it. 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:41,600 Jake Paul Cruz. To enter, you have to go through Mr. Beast's mouth. 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,920 Research firm Moffat Nathanson, wow. 11 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:50,480 That sounds like a fake name. Also estimates that the platform pulled in 40.4 billion 12 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:55,360 in ad revenue in 2025, more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, 13 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,800 and Warner Brothers combined. YouTube CEO, Neil Mohan, 14 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:05,000 stated that their current market position comes from YouTube's ability to bring together 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,920 human storytelling and the best of technology, 16 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:13,840 which sounds a lot better than saying, we pumped up platform full of ads and AI slop. 17 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,560 And it made us a ton of money. I guess we're rich now. 18 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,580 Part of that making money strategy was doing things like increasing the amount 19 00:01:21,580 --> 00:01:27,960 of unskippable ads people see alongside their rollout of anti-ad blocker technology. 20 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:33,200 While the lion's share of revenue comes from ads, YouTube is clearly pushing subscriptions too 21 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:39,440 with YouTube premium, YouTube music, NFL Sunday ticket, and YouTube TV all driving growth. 22 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:44,480 The report also credits YouTube's heavy investment in AI tools, which gives creators the ability 23 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,520 to generate slop content faster than ever, 24 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:51,840 helping them take shorts to 200 billion views a day. 25 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:56,320 Take that, TikTok, you're not better than us. That's YouTube. 26 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:02,160 But some of the features YouTube has added are helpful, like this conversational AI feature on smart TVs 27 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:07,040 that'll let you ask questions mid-video. Like what ingredients are in a recipe? 28 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:12,160 What's the meaning behind these song lyrics? And would you still love me if I was a worm? 29 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,240 Intel has announced the Core Ultra 200S Plus lineup, 30 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,560 a direct refresh of Arrow Lake aimed at winning back the gaming market. 31 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,560 In case you forgot, Arrow Lake's disastrous gaming latency issues when it first launched 32 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:31,240 tanked its reputation with PC builders, and so Intel decided it needed to begin its apology tour. 33 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:35,600 This mid-range refresh features the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, 34 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,240 packing 24 cores and the Ultra 5 250K Plus with 18. 35 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,480 At a price point of 300 bucks and 200 bucks respectively, 36 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,040 it's clear that Intel has done some deep soul searching. 37 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:53,400 If you consider soul searching to be realizing that AMD's 3D vCache stays winning. 38 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:59,400 Interestingly, Intel says these new chips are their fastest gaming desktop processors ever. 39 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,080 They now have a 270K that is faster 40 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,360 than their existing flagship 285K. 41 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,640 And I gotta say, as a lover of sequential value scaling, 42 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:13,760 this makes me furious. The refreshed Arrow Lake chips aren't just faster. 43 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,120 They come with new features meant to reduce frame time and latency bottlenecks, 44 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,120 increase instructions per clock in specific games to boost performance, 45 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,920 and support faster DDR5 out of the box. It's no wonder Reddit commenters view this 46 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:31,480 as a great deal, a better deal, if we can have some affordable RAM to put alongside it. 47 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,600 Like right now you got a cheap top tier beef patty, 48 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,760 but the burger bun costs five times as much, which seems like a problem, 49 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,080 unless you go full carnivore like me. I don't need buns. 50 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,840 I always have some kind of meat in my hands. Check out this guy's buns. 51 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,960 Some people like buns, I like the meat. Meta has acquired Moltbook, 52 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:56,400 the Reddit style social network for open claw AI agents, 53 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,540 not for people, that went viral earlier this year, 54 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:03,800 dropping any remaining pretense that Facebook is still for humans. 55 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:10,200 They're just waiting until they can go mask off. Moltbook's creators will join Meta superintelligence Labs 56 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,520 where they'll presumably come up with applications for their always on agent directory 57 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,160 that are more practical than automating rage bait posts. 58 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,600 Axios, which broke the story, reported that existing Moltbook users 59 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,040 can continue letting their agents use the platform, 60 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,080 though Meta signaled that's likely going to change. 61 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,800 While some big names in the AI world, like Andre Carpathi, 62 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,280 hyped it up to be a singularity event, much of the viral activity around Moltbook 63 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:44,240 was people using it to artificially increase the value of meme coins for pump and dump schemes, 64 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:49,560 which was possible because the whole thing was incredibly insecure. The acquisition is another step in Meta CEO 65 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,420 and puppet yearning to be a real boy, Mark Zuckerberg's strategy, 66 00:04:53,420 --> 00:04:56,440 to flood the world with more soulless bots 67 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:02,160 so he can feel more normal. When you wish upon a star. 68 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,440 He's like, someday everyone will have dead eyes like me. 69 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,720 On an earnings call last year, Zuckerberg stated his intention for every business 70 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,860 to have a business AI, wearing a suit, 71 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:17,780 just like they have an email address and website. While on the consumer side, 72 00:05:17,780 --> 00:05:20,980 people are speculating that agents would find deals, 73 00:05:20,980 --> 00:05:25,740 manage bookings and shop on your behalf. So to translate this from corporate, 74 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:28,980 the end game is agents making and posting the ads, 75 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:32,220 agents looking at the ads and buying the stuff in the ads, 76 00:05:32,220 --> 00:05:35,660 and then the middle Zuckerberg is managing all that infrastructure 77 00:05:35,660 --> 00:05:38,980 and charging advertisers for it. And what will the humans do? 78 00:05:38,980 --> 00:05:42,540 Nothing, the agents don't need us here for this. They're just fine. 79 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:48,740 We'll be in the metaverse. No, it's not dead. Oh man, tech industry, you're looking a little woozy. 80 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:53,500 Just can't handle all this sass, can you? Well, there's more where that came from. 81 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,620 Quick bits, go! They're like Pokemon. 82 00:05:56,620 --> 00:05:59,860 Apple's MacBook Neo officially launched today 83 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:02,860 and Windows PC makers are terrified. 84 00:06:02,860 --> 00:06:06,940 Reviews are glowing, calling the A18 Pro-powered budget laptop 85 00:06:06,940 --> 00:06:12,820 an absolute game changer for everyday users. Not the people like you mostly, okay? 86 00:06:12,820 --> 00:06:20,420 It's the normal people. It's going so well that even ASUS co-CEO, S.Y. Sue, 87 00:06:20,820 --> 00:06:24,900 admitted during a Tuesday earnings call that the $600 price point 88 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:30,620 is a shock to the entire industry. He simultaneously also tried downplaying the Neo 89 00:06:30,620 --> 00:06:34,220 as just a content consumption tablet with a keyboard. 90 00:06:34,220 --> 00:06:38,140 Yeah, and a pizza is just bread with stuff on it. 91 00:06:38,140 --> 00:06:41,340 And it changed the world. Hisense is facing backlash 92 00:06:41,340 --> 00:06:44,780 for forcing non-skippable ads on users 93 00:06:44,780 --> 00:06:50,300 while they're doing basic TV functions, like switching HDMI inputs, changing channels, 94 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:53,300 and navigating the home screen. This is crazy. 95 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:58,420 Apparently an update to the Vida OS used on these TVs 96 00:06:58,420 --> 00:07:02,020 caused the spot tests to completely bypass 97 00:07:02,020 --> 00:07:06,940 user privacy settings. While Hisense claims the tests were limited to Spain, 98 00:07:06,940 --> 00:07:11,660 users from the UK, Germany, and Australia have shared similar experiences. 99 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:15,900 Well, you want content without watching any ads? That's not how it works now. 100 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:19,380 It's like Mama always said, you gotta eat your veggies before dessert, 101 00:07:19,380 --> 00:07:24,000 except now the veggies are bad for you. A federal judge has ordered perplexity 102 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,660 to stop its AI agents from shopping on Amazon. 103 00:07:27,660 --> 00:07:31,980 They're making the other shoppers feel unsafe. They're jumping on tables in the food court. 104 00:07:31,980 --> 00:07:36,020 Ha, ha, ha, ha. The judge said there was strong evidence 105 00:07:36,020 --> 00:07:39,380 that perplexity's comment browser accessed user accounts 106 00:07:39,380 --> 00:07:42,540 without authorization, then collected information 107 00:07:42,540 --> 00:07:46,180 from the website while disguising itself as a Chrome browser. 108 00:07:46,180 --> 00:07:49,820 Perplexity was given one week to appeal before the order takes effect. 109 00:07:49,820 --> 00:07:55,340 Soon after the ruling, the American Bar Association reported getting DDoS'd by a swarm of AI agents, 110 00:07:55,340 --> 00:07:58,940 all searching what to do when being sued by Amazon. 111 00:07:58,940 --> 00:08:02,900 Pretend to be Chrome, please. No mistakes, no M dashes. 112 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:07,340 That'll do it. Microsoft released a new Windows 11 update 113 00:08:07,340 --> 00:08:11,060 that, shockingly, you may actually want to install. 114 00:08:11,060 --> 00:08:16,340 What? Power users get a native taskbar network speed test, 115 00:08:16,340 --> 00:08:22,020 Sysmon integration for performance tracking, and quick machine recovery to fix unbootable PCs. 116 00:08:22,020 --> 00:08:28,020 There's even Emoji 16.0, an improved backup restoration for fresh installs. 117 00:08:28,020 --> 00:08:34,380 The patch also fixes two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities and 79 other flaws. 118 00:08:34,940 --> 00:08:39,740 Close. It's a rare moment of Microsoft providing genuine utility. 119 00:08:39,740 --> 00:08:44,900 It's nice to see them finally focus on the operating part of the operating system. 120 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,940 It's a system for ads? No, no, no, no, we gotta get back to... 121 00:08:48,940 --> 00:08:54,420 And thanks to leaker Evan Blass, we now have renders of an unannounced Lenovo tablet 122 00:08:54,420 --> 00:08:58,420 with a big old JBL speaker slapped right on the back. 123 00:08:58,420 --> 00:09:03,300 Complete with a built-in ring kickstand, it blurs the lines between an Android tablet 124 00:09:03,340 --> 00:09:07,460 and a portable boombox. It looks perfect for watching movies in bed, 125 00:09:07,460 --> 00:09:11,500 playing music on the beach, or becoming the undisputed most hated person 126 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,500 on public transit. Travis was almost beating you there for a bit, 127 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:18,940 don't you know what that to happen? Standing up on the bus. 128 00:09:18,940 --> 00:09:23,220 It was on sale! And whether it's by train, plane, or automobile, 129 00:09:23,220 --> 00:09:28,900 it doesn't matter what you use to get back here on Friday for more tech news, it only matters that you get here. 130 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:33,260 I want the tech industry to look into the eyes of the people they want to replace with AI bots, 131 00:09:33,260 --> 00:09:37,900 and feel bad. So, I'll need your best sad puppy impression. 132 00:09:38,860 --> 00:09:43,540 Oh, that's not... You know, AI will do sad puppy way better than that. 133 00:09:43,540 --> 00:09:45,180 Just take a day to work on it.