YouTube beats Disney, Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus, Meta buys Moltbook + more!

Duration: 09:45

Timestamps:

0:00 we are doing the WORK here

0:13 YouTube = largest media company?

2:11 Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus

3:50 Meta acquires Moltbook

5:48 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:59 Macbook Neo reviews

6:42 Hisense TVs serve ridiculous ads

7:23 Perplexity AI agents blocked on Amazon

8:07 Windows 11 update is... GOOD?

8:52 Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 with big speaker

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

REVVED UP

YouTube is the largest media company: surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/youtube-surpasses-disney-paramount-wbd-in-2025-ad-revenue/

Headline quote:

Various articles citing MoffetNathonson research report, which I can’t find

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-worlds-largest-media-company-2025-tops-disney-1236525130/

Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/3wnKK

Quote Youtube beats disney https://archive.md/3wnKK#selection-1675.2-1675.412

Quote Mohan sounding like a chatbot: https://archive.md/3wnKK#selection-1855.2-1855.345

Succeeded by increasing the amount of unskippable ads people see, like they just did on TV

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-on-tv-unskippable-30-second-ads-3648246/

Google blog post about it https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/vrc-non-skip-ads-generally-available/

Reddit thread with undismissable banner ads: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1rjfiek/pop_up_ads_when_you_full_screen_on_your_mobile/

Reddit thread where people using ad blockers are reporting a degraded experience https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1r482o6/description_and_comments_missing_from_all_videos/

So they’re really trying to drive that subscription revenue. https://9to5google.com/2026/03/11/youtube-is-now-the-worlds-largest-media-company-beating-even-disney/

Highlight quote YouTube is expected to continue growing....subscription offerings

YouTube’s testing a new AI tool that lets you ask your TV questions during videos

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-new-ai-tool-lets-you-ask-your-tv-questions-during-videos-3333112/

Youtube help post about how to use it” https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/18138167?hl=en&msgid=411145985

Alternate headline (only if you need another source) https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/youtubes-latest-experiment-brings-its-conversational-ai-tool-to-tvs/

Youtube Shorts - https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/

INTELS “APOLOGY TOUR”

Intel announces Core Ultra 200S Plus Desktop Processors to win back the gaming market after the original Arrow Lake’s poor gaming latency issues, and to undercut AMD’s pricing.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-arrow-lake-refresh-desktop-cpus-270k-plus-and-250k-plus

https://gizmodo.com/intels-redemption-arc-for-pc-gaming-starts-with-midrange-desktop-cpus-2000732274

“Intel’s fastest gaming desktop processors ever” - this 270K is now faster than their existing flagship 285K

https://hothardware.com/Image/Resize/?width=1170&height=1170&imageFile=/contentimages/NewsItem/70049/content/big_slide2-intel-core-200s-plus-processors-fixed.jpg

EDITOR: focus on this quote in the box on the left

https://hothardware.com/news/intel-reveals-first-core-ultra-plus-cpus

Mid range focus: Core Ultra 7 270K Plus ($299, 24 cores) and Ultra 5 240K Plus ($199, 18 cores) are upscaled refreshes of the previous Core Ultra 7 265K and Ultra 5 245K respectively.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-arrow-lake-refresh-desktop-cpus-270k-plus-and-250k-plus#:~:text=Latency%20and%20Bandwidth,Ultra%20200S%20processors.

A number of features meant to reduce frame time and latency (boost to die-to-die(D2D) interconnect (now 3.0Ghz) by up to 900MHz, solving the frame time and latency bottlenecks of the previous gen), boost IPC in games (Intel Binary Optimization Tool) and supports native faster DDR5 (7200)

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1rqtlsd/intel_announces_299_core_ultra_7_270k_plus_and/ ]

Editor: Screenshot of the top comments mainly focusing in on the “the prices are appealing/ good cpu deal”

A BOT IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH

Meta acquires Moltbook

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-acquires-ai-agent-social-network-moltbook-2026-03-10/

Moltbook site: https://www.moltbook.com/

I can’t access Reuters so I’m gomma pull quotes from TC: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/

Quote about what meta says they want out of it

Axios saw internal communications: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network

Quote link: Reported that moltbook would stay available to the public but temporarily

Moltbook is basically speedruning the dead internet https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-buys-moltbook-zuckerberg-dead-180414093.html

Moltbook isIt’s a social media platform for AI agents that went viral with the regular hype beasts claiming that we’re at the singularity:

Hype beast andrej Karpathy doing what he does best and getting people whipped up about moltbook https://x.com/karpathy/status/2017296988589723767

It was a pump and dump because It was incredibly insecure

Meta wants the agentic web: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/meta-didnt-buy-moltbook-for-bots-it-bought-into-the-agentic-web/

Earnings Call transcript: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2025/q2/META-Q2-2025-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf

Editor please screenshot this quote from Zuckerberg: I believe every business will soon have a business AI just like they have an email address, social media account, and website.

Quote about consumer side agents

Quote from fb about the point of the acquisition

QUICKBITS

PC MAKERS SWEATING

Macbook Neo reviews are out, and this thing is indeed a game-changer

https://gizmodo.com/macbook-neo-review-no-other-budget-laptop-can-compete-2000731635

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/reviews/apple-macbook-neo

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

https://www.pcmag.com/news/asus-co-ceo-macbook-neo-is-a-shock-to-the-pc-industry#:~:text=In%20a,year

AD FIRST, TV LATER

Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing (eat veggies first before dessert/ ad before tv joke somewhere, gotta think hard on this one)

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/hisense-tvs-force-owners-to-watch-intrusive-ads-when-switching-inputs-visiting-the-home-screen-or-even-changing-channels-practice-infuriates-consumers-brand-denies-wrongdoing

Editor: Flash the Tom’s Hardware headline

Reddit main thread blowing up , users are upset of course: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1rqrsr9/hisense_tvs_force_owners_to_watch_intrusive_ads/

Editor: Highlight the top two angry comments like “Paying to watch ads”

Some older threads on the Hisense subreddit of users claiming annoying adds when using their TVs

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hisense/comments/1rg2kyn/annoying_add_every_time_i_selected_tv_channels/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Hisense/comments/1rgrjy6/my_hisense_vidaa_tv_suddenly_has_full_screen_ads/

JUST BROWSING

Judge orders Perplexity to stop AI agents from shopping on Amazon

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-10/amazon-wins-court-order-blocking-perplexity-s-ai-shopping-bots

Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/RIzh0

Original Source: Legal ruling: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27822873-amazon-v-perplexity-injunction/

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/892401/amazon-perplexity-ai-shopping-agent-court-order

Archive https://archive.md/Jj9hL

WINDOWS W?

Windows update that you actually want and actually has nice upgrades (Emoji 16.0, Sign-in restore part of windows backup, Quick Machine Recover (QMR), Built in network speed test on taskbar, camera settings, System Monitor(sysmon) , desktop backgrounds etc)

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-kb5079473-is-here-with-some-actually-good-upgrades-heres-whats-rolling-out-this-patch-tuesday

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB5079473

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 79 vulns fixed, two zero-days in SQL Server and .NET — neither actively exploited yet https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-march-2026-patch-tuesday-fixes-2-zero-days-79-flaws/

SPEAK-LET

New lenovo tablet has a massive JBL speaker on the back - https://www.techradar.com/audio/its-massive-why-the-leaked-lenovo-tablet-with-a-huge-jbl-speaker-on-the-back-actually-makes-a-lot-of-sense

https://x.com/evleaks/status/2031049300239614364

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