What's that, tech industry? You can do whatever you want? You're immune to the
laws of God and man? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to stop by talking about
your activities in a kind of sassy way. Oh, it's over for you. YouTube is now
the world's largest asterisk media company by revenue. YouTube's $62
billion in 2025 revenue beat even
Disney, which came just short at $61
billion. Although, it does exclude Disney's theme parks and cruises and
merch. YouTube won't catch up until they do that, too.
I don't even want to imagine it. >> Jake Paul cruise.
>> [laughter] >> To enter, you have to go through Mr. Beast's mouth.
Research firm Moffett Nathanson, wow,
that sounds like a fake name, also estimates that the platform pulled in
$40.4 billion in ad revenue in 2025,
more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Brothers combined. YouTube CEO
Neal Mohan stated that their current market position comes from YouTube's
ability to bring together human storytelling and the best of technology,
which sounds a lot better than saying, "We pumped that platform full of ads and
AI slop, and it made us a ton of money. I
I guess we're rich now." Part of that making money strategy was doing things
like increasing the amount of unskippable ads people see alongside
their rollout of anti-ad blocker technology. While the lion's share of
revenue comes from ads, YouTube is clearly pushing subscriptions, too, with
YouTube Premium, YouTube Music, NFL Sunday Ticket, and YouTube TV all
driving growth. The report also credits YouTube's heavy investment in AI tools,
which gives creators the ability to generate slop content faster than ever,
helping them take shorts to 200 billion views a day. Take that, TikTok. You're
not better than us. >> [laughter] >> That's YouTube. But, some of the
features YouTube has added are helpful, like this conversational AI feature on
smart TVs that will let you ask questions mid-video. Like, "What
ingredients are in a recipe? What's the meaning behind these song lyrics? And
would you still love me if I was a worm?" Intel has announced the Core
Ultra 200S Plus lineup, a direct refresh
of Arrow Lake aimed at winning back the gaming market. In case you forgot, Arrow
Lake's disastrous gaming latency issues when it first launched tanked its
reputation with PC builders. And so Intel decided it needed to begin its
apology tour. This mid-range refresh features the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
packing 24 cores and the Ultra 5 250K
Plus with 18. At a price point of 300
bucks and 200 bucks respectively, it's clear that Intel has done some deep soul
searching. If you consider soul searching to be realizing that AMD's 3D
V-Cache stays winning. Interestingly,
Intel says these new chips are their fastest gaming desktop processors ever.
They now have a 270K that is faster than
their existing flagship 285K.
And I got to say, as a lover of sequential value scaling, this makes me
furious. The refreshed Arrow Lake chips aren't just faster. They come with new
features meant to reduce frame time and latency bottlenecks, increase
instructions per clock in specific games to boost performance, and support faster
DDR5 out of the box. It's no wonder Reddit commenters view this as a great
deal. A better deal if, [music] you know, we could we could have some
affordable RAM to put alongside it. Like right now you got a cheap top-tier beef
patty, but the burger bun costs five times as much, which seems like a
problem. Unless you go full carnivore like me. I don't need buns.
I always have some kind of meat in my hands. Check out this guy's buns. Some
people like buns, I like the meat. Meta has acquired Multbook, the Reddit-style
social network for open-claw AI agents,
not for people, that went viral earlier this year, dropping any remaining
pretense that Facebook is still for humans. Wait, I They're just waiting
until they can go mask off. Multibook's creators will join Meta
Superintelligence Labs, where they'll presumably come up with applications for
their always-on agent directory that are
more practical than automating ragebait posts. Axios, which broke the story,
reported that existing Multibook users can continue letting their agents uh use
the platform, though Meta signaled that's likely going to change. While
some big names in the AI world, like Andre Karpathy, hyped it up to be a
singularity event, much of the viral activity around Multibook was people
using it to artificially increase the value of meme coins for pump-and-dump
schemes, which was possible because the whole thing was incredibly insecure. The
acquisition is another step in Meta CEO and puppet yearning to be a real boy,
Mark Zuckerberg's strategy to flood the world with more soulless bots so he can
feel more normal. When you wish upon a
star He's like, "Someday everyone will
have dead eyes like me." On an earnings call last year, Zuckerberg stated his
intention for every business to have a business AI wearing a suit, just like
they have an email address and website. While on the consumer side,
>> [music] >> people are speculating that agents would find deals, manage bookings, and shop on
your behalf. So, to translate this from corporate, the endgame is agents making
and posting the ads, agents looking at the ads and buying the stuff in the ads,
and then the middle Zuckerberg is managing all that infrastructure and
charging advertisers for it. And what will the humans do? Nothing. The agents
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You dang on fool. Oh, man, tech industry, you're looking a
little woozy. Just can't handle all this sass, can you?
Well, there's more where that came from. QUICK BITS, GO! THEY'RE LIKE POKéMON.
Apple's MacBook Neo officially launched today, and Windows PC makers are
terrified. Reviews are glowing, calling the A18 [music] Pro-powered budget
laptop an absolute game-changer for everyday users. Not the people like you
mostly, okay? It's the the normal
people. It's going so well that even Asus co-CEO S.Y. Su admitted during a
Tuesday earnings call that the $600 price point is a shock to the entire
industry. He simultaneously also tried downplaying the Neo as just a content
consumption tablet with a keyboard. Yeah, and a pizza is just bread with
stuff on it, and it changed the world. Hisense is facing backlash for forcing a
non-skippable ads on users while they're
doing basic TV functions like switching HDMI inputs, changing channels, and
navigating the home screen. This is crazy. Apparently, an update to the Vida
OS used on these TVs uh caused the spot
tests to completely bypass user privacy
settings. While Hisense claims the tests were limited to Spain, users from the
UK, Germany, and Australia have shared similar experiences. Well, you want
content without watching any ads? That's not how it works now. It's like mama
always said, you got to eat your veggies before dessert. Except now, the veggies
are bad for you. A federal judge has ordered Perplexity to stop its AI agents
from shopping on Amazon. They're making the other shoppers feel unsafe. They're
jumping on tables in the food court. >> [laughter]
>> The judge said there was strong evidence that Perplexity's Comet browser accessed
user accounts without authorization, then collected information from the
website while disguising itself as a Chrome browser. Perplexity was given 1
week to appeal before the order takes effect. Soon after the ruling, the
American Bar Association reported getting DDoS by a swarm of AI agents all
searching what to do when being sued by Amazon. Pretend to be Chrome, please. No
mistakes. No em dashes. That'll do it.
Microsoft released a new Windows 11 update that shockingly, you may actually
want to install. What? Power users get a native taskbar network
speed test, Sysmon integration for performance tracking, and quick machine
recover to fix unbootable PCs. There's even emoji 16.0,
and improved backup restoration for fresh installs. The patch also fixes two
publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, and 79 other flaws.
Nice. Close. It's a rare moment of Microsoft providing genuine utility.
It's nice to see them finally focus on the operating part of the operating
system. It's a system for ads. No, no,
no, no. We got to get back to And thanks to leaker Evan Blass, we now have
renders of an unannounced Lenovo tablet with a big old JBL speaker slapped right
on the back. Complete with a built-in ring kickstand, it blurs the lines
between an Android tablet and a portable boombox. It looks perfect for watching
movies in bed, playing music on the beach, or becoming the undisputed most
hated person on public transit. Travis was almost beating you there for a bit.
Don't You don't want that to happen. Standing up on the bus.
It was on sale. And whether it's by train, plane, or automobile, it doesn't
matter what you use to get back here on Friday for more tech news, it only
matters that you get here. I want the tech industry to look into the eyes of
the people they want to replace with AI bots and feel bad. So,
I'll need your best sad puppy impression.
Oh, that's That's not You know, AI will do sad puppy way better than that. You
know, just take Take a day to work on it.