WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.840 What's that, tech industry? You can do whatever you want? You're immune to the 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:12.560 laws of God and man? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to stop by talking about 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:17.720 your activities in a kind of sassy way. Oh, it's over for you. YouTube is now 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:24.120 the world's largest asterisk media company by revenue. YouTube's $62 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:27.160 billion in 2025 revenue beat even 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:29.400 Disney, which came just short at $61 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:33.360 billion. Although, it does exclude Disney's theme parks and cruises and 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:36.400 merch. YouTube won't catch up until they do that, too. 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:38.760 I don't even want to imagine it. >> Jake Paul cruise. 00:00:37.990 --> 00:00:44.880 >> [laughter] >> To enter, you have to go through Mr. Beast's mouth. 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:46.560 Research firm Moffett Nathanson, wow, 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:53.000 that sounds like a fake name, also estimates that the platform pulled in 00:00:48.720 --> 00:00:55.720 $40.4 billion in ad revenue in 2025, 00:00:53.000 --> 00:01:01.080 more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Brothers combined. YouTube CEO 00:00:58.760 --> 00:01:05.400 Neal Mohan stated that their current market position comes from YouTube's 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:11.240 ability to bring together human storytelling and the best of technology, 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:15.520 which sounds a lot better than saying, "We pumped that platform full of ads and 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.080 AI slop, and it made us a ton of money. I 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:21.680 I guess we're rich now." Part of that making money strategy was doing things 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:26.840 like increasing the amount of unskippable ads people see alongside 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:30.920 their rollout of anti-ad blocker technology. While the lion's share of 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:35.760 revenue comes from ads, YouTube is clearly pushing subscriptions, too, with 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:40.440 YouTube Premium, YouTube Music, NFL Sunday Ticket, and YouTube TV all 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:44.520 driving growth. The report also credits YouTube's heavy investment in AI tools, 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:50.320 which gives creators the ability to generate slop content faster than ever, 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:55.281 helping them take shorts to 200 billion views a day. Take that, TikTok. You're 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:58.760 not better than us. >> [laughter] >> That's YouTube. But, some of the 00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:02.920 features YouTube has added are helpful, like this conversational AI feature on 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:07.360 smart TVs that will let you ask questions mid-video. Like, "What 00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:11.480 ingredients are in a recipe? What's the meaning behind these song lyrics? And 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:17.200 would you still love me if I was a worm?" Intel has announced the Core 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:19.440 Ultra 200S Plus lineup, a direct refresh 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:24.320 of Arrow Lake aimed at winning back the gaming market. In case you forgot, Arrow 00:02:21.640 --> 00:02:27.959 Lake's disastrous gaming latency issues when it first launched tanked its 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:32.440 reputation with PC builders. And so Intel decided it needed to begin its 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:38.640 apology tour. This mid-range refresh features the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus 00:02:35.480 --> 00:02:41.680 packing 24 cores and the Ultra 5 250K 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:43.600 Plus with 18. At a price point of 300 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:48.440 bucks and 200 bucks respectively, it's clear that Intel has done some deep soul 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:54.080 searching. If you consider soul searching to be realizing that AMD's 3D 00:02:50.959 --> 00:02:56.360 V-Cache stays winning. Interestingly, 00:02:54.080 --> 00:03:03.120 Intel says these new chips are their fastest gaming desktop processors ever. 00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:06.239 They now have a 270K that is faster than 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:08.239 their existing flagship 285K. 00:03:06.239 --> 00:03:12.480 And I got to say, as a lover of sequential value scaling, this makes me 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:15.880 furious. The refreshed Arrow Lake chips aren't just faster. They come with new 00:03:14.239 --> 00:03:19.040 features meant to reduce frame time and latency bottlenecks, increase 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:23.200 instructions per clock in specific games to boost performance, and support faster 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:27.360 DDR5 out of the box. It's no wonder Reddit commenters view this as a great 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:31.519 deal. A better deal if, [music] you know, we could we could have some 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:36.280 affordable RAM to put alongside it. Like right now you got a cheap top-tier beef 00:03:33.880 --> 00:03:40.519 patty, but the burger bun costs five times as much, which seems like a 00:03:37.880 --> 00:03:45.160 problem. Unless you go full carnivore like me. I don't need buns. 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:50.160 I always have some kind of meat in my hands. Check out this guy's buns. Some 00:03:47.959 --> 00:03:56.360 people like buns, I like the meat. Meta has acquired Multbook, the Reddit-style 00:03:53.040 --> 00:03:58.800 social network for open-claw AI agents, 00:03:56.360 --> 00:04:02.800 not for people, that went viral earlier this year, dropping any remaining 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.880 pretense that Facebook is still for humans. Wait, I They're just waiting 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:10.560 until they can go mask off. Multibook's creators will join Meta 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:15.760 Superintelligence Labs, where they'll presumably come up with applications for 00:04:12.600 --> 00:04:18.280 their always-on agent directory that are 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:23.520 more practical than automating ragebait posts. Axios, which broke the story, 00:04:20.799 --> 00:04:29.240 reported that existing Multibook users can continue letting their agents uh use 00:04:27.080 --> 00:04:33.400 the platform, though Meta signaled that's likely going to change. While 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:37.960 some big names in the AI world, like Andre Karpathy, hyped it up to be a 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:41.680 singularity event, much of the viral activity around Multibook was people 00:04:39.880 --> 00:04:45.160 using it to artificially increase the value of meme coins for pump-and-dump 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:49.440 schemes, which was possible because the whole thing was incredibly insecure. The 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:53.880 acquisition is another step in Meta CEO and puppet yearning to be a real boy, 00:04:51.600 --> 00:05:00.840 Mark Zuckerberg's strategy to flood the world with more soulless bots so he can 00:04:56.919 --> 00:05:02.080 feel more normal. When you wish upon a 00:05:00.840 --> 00:05:07.000 star He's like, "Someday everyone will 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:11.480 have dead eyes like me." On an earnings call last year, Zuckerberg stated his 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:16.160 intention for every business to have a business AI wearing a suit, just like 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.680 they have an email address and website. While on the consumer side, 00:05:17.678 --> 00:05:25.000 >> [music] >> people are speculating that agents would find deals, manage bookings, and shop on 00:05:22.640 --> 00:05:30.000 your behalf. So, to translate this from corporate, the endgame is agents making 00:05:27.640 --> 00:05:33.960 and posting the ads, agents looking at the ads and buying the stuff in the ads, 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:37.919 and then the middle Zuckerberg is managing all that infrastructure and 00:05:35.760 --> 00:05:41.600 charging advertisers for it. And what will the humans do? Nothing. The agents 00:05:39.919 --> 00:05:48.000 don't need us here for this. They're They're just fine. We'll be in the metaverse. NO, IT'S NOT DEAD. 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It's the the normal 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:17.440 people. It's going so well that even Asus co-CEO S.Y. Su admitted during a 00:07:14.760 --> 00:07:22.600 Tuesday earnings call that the $600 price point is a shock to the entire 00:07:19.760 --> 00:07:27.320 industry. He simultaneously also tried downplaying the Neo as just a content 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:32.640 consumption tablet with a keyboard. Yeah, and a pizza is just bread with 00:07:30.280 --> 00:07:38.240 stuff on it, and it changed the world. Hisense is facing backlash for forcing a 00:07:35.080 --> 00:07:40.960 non-skippable ads on users while they're 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:45.680 doing basic TV functions like switching HDMI inputs, changing channels, and 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:52.840 navigating the home screen. This is crazy. Apparently, an update to the Vida 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:55.920 OS used on these TVs uh caused the spot 00:07:52.840 --> 00:07:58.440 tests to completely bypass user privacy 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:03.400 settings. While Hisense claims the tests were limited to Spain, users from the 00:08:00.760 --> 00:08:07.440 UK, Germany, and Australia have shared similar experiences. Well, you want 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:11.560 content without watching any ads? That's not how it works now. It's like mama 00:08:09.640 --> 00:08:15.919 always said, you got to eat your veggies before dessert. Except now, the veggies 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:21.240 are bad for you. A federal judge has ordered Perplexity to stop its AI agents 00:08:19.080 --> 00:08:25.665 from shopping on Amazon. They're making the other shoppers feel unsafe. They're 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:29.120 jumping on tables in the food court. >> [laughter] 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:34.120 >> The judge said there was strong evidence that Perplexity's Comet browser accessed 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:38.280 user accounts without authorization, then collected information from the 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:42.479 website while disguising itself as a Chrome browser. Perplexity was given 1 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:45.640 week to appeal before the order takes effect. Soon after the ruling, the 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:51.080 American Bar Association reported getting DDoS by a swarm of AI agents all 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:57.839 searching what to do when being sued by Amazon. Pretend to be Chrome, please. No 00:08:53.800 --> 00:08:59.920 mistakes. No em dashes. That'll do it. 00:08:57.839 --> 00:09:05.320 Microsoft released a new Windows 11 update that shockingly, you may actually 00:09:02.680 --> 00:09:10.800 want to install. What? Power users get a native taskbar network 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:15.360 speed test, Sysmon integration for performance tracking, and quick machine 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:19.880 recover to fix unbootable PCs. There's even emoji 16.0, 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:24.400 and improved backup restoration for fresh installs. The patch also fixes two 00:09:22.640 --> 00:09:30.080 publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, and 79 other flaws. 00:09:27.400 --> 00:09:34.480 Nice. Close. It's a rare moment of Microsoft providing genuine utility. 00:09:32.880 --> 00:09:40.560 It's nice to see them finally focus on the operating part of the operating 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:42.640 system. It's a system for ads. No, no, 00:09:40.560 --> 00:09:47.600 no, no. We got to get back to And thanks to leaker Evan Blass, we now have 00:09:44.840 --> 00:09:52.760 renders of an unannounced Lenovo tablet with a big old JBL speaker slapped right 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:57.200 on the back. Complete with a built-in ring kickstand, it blurs the lines 00:09:54.760 --> 00:10:01.320 between an Android tablet and a portable boombox. It looks perfect for watching 00:09:59.760 --> 00:10:06.120 movies in bed, playing music on the beach, or becoming the undisputed most 00:10:03.880 --> 00:10:09.800 hated person on public transit. Travis was almost beating you there for a bit. 00:10:07.560 --> 00:10:14.200 Don't You don't want that to happen. Standing up on the bus. 00:10:12.040 --> 00:10:18.720 It was on sale. And whether it's by train, plane, or automobile, it doesn't 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:22.480 matter what you use to get back here on Friday for more tech news, it only 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:25.800 matters that you get here. I want the tech industry to look into the eyes of 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.320 the people they want to replace with AI bots and feel bad. So, 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:34.800 I'll need your best sad puppy impression. 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:37.920 Oh, that's That's not You know, AI will do sad puppy way better than that. You 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:40.240 know, just take Take a day to work on it.