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Fast forward a year to Q4 2023 and it swung 15 points in the black. So it's gone from -8 to +15 in just a year, quite the turnarounds. Evelyn, what's behind YouTube's 15% Q4 2023 growth? Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Well, Q4 of 2023 was YouTube's first full quarter hosting the NFL Sunday ticket, so that definitely gave it a boost.

So still not able to get themselves into black on the profitability side of things. Jasmine, let's end the lead by talking about their AR ambitions. Just last month, Snap laid off another 170 employees in its year old AR, augmented reality, enterprise division, so it could focus on AI and other services it says. What does this say about Snapchat's AR ambitions? Jasmine Enberg:.

Then TV in a very distant third are barely 1% this year, and that's a good year for TV because of the Paris Olympics, because of the Euro Cup going on, there's a ton of elections as well, and so especially the one in the us, but there are elections around the world happening this year, and so that's giving TV a bit of a bump into the black, but next couple of years back into the red for tv, expecting it

So they're finally starting to get into the black and for them, hopefully on a more consistent basis than just the one time in their history. Another thing folks have been speaking about with regards to Spotify is trying to figure out where their Hi Fi or su premium service is. And so that was their higher quality music offering that people were speculating over.

So, I think while we wait for that technical problem, that black box problem to be solved, I think we're going to see a push for more accountability for, again, these sensitive and critical use cases. And I think what that will amount to is that for certain things there's going to be a requirement for human oversight.

It was the Black Sea? Oh, the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea. Yes. See, the name throws you off because it's not a lake if it's called a sea, right? Marcus Johnson:. Oh, that's true. That's true. Paul Verna:. They should call it the Great Caspian Lake, then we'd all be square with it. Marcus Johnson:. That would make sense. Why is it called the Caspian Sea? What a terrible name. What's happening?

Other parts of the business, the parts of the business grew revenue over 20% to 9 billion and they had strong box office and Disney+ results as well for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which helped Disney through the holiday season as well. Paul, that's all we've got time for the lead, time for the halftime report. Quick takeaway from you, Paul, from the first half. Paul Verna:.

Yeah, you'd have to go black on black to make it work, for sure. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Nice. Marcus Johnson:. Let's move on to the next question. Carina Perkins:. I'm not convinced. Marcus Johnson:. Sorry, Humane. I did my best. Let's move on to the second question we've got for you here. We're talking about shopping Amazon from your social feed.

It's the first time in the black. Lyft, however, reported another loss of nearly $200 million with its market value down 85% from when it started trading in 2019 shortly before Uber. But Max, can Uber and Lyft ever make real money? What's the point? Max Willens:.

Some people are even calling ChatGPT's release a black swan event. So could it become obsolete? Yes. Unforgettable? No, I don't think so. Marcus Johnson:. Indeed. Well, that's all we've got time for this episode. Tune in tomorrow for the part two, of this Problems With AI two-part episode series we've got going on. Thank you so much to my guests. They'll be back tomorrow. Thank you to Gadjo.

Of course, black and gold. Jeremy Goldman:. It's a shame none their teams are good. Just kidding, Pittsburgh. Marcus Johnson:. Anyway, today's real topic, Netflix and new service Max with ads. In today's episode, first in the lead, we'll cover Netflix and Max's ad tiers. Then for another news, we'll discuss where eSports is at and the best CTV ad formats so far.

So some specific examples of those that were called out were the black box algorithms that are behind a lot of credit decisions, things like dark patterns. So if you've ever tried to sign up for a service and then suddenly you find that you've signed up for a couple of auxiliary services, that might be what's known as a dark pattern.

They were going for Latino and Black patients. Well, parents. This was for pediatric visits. They were trying to get more well-child visits and immunizations from these patients.

As Jacob Kastrenakes of the Verge describes, the AI pin device is a small black puck that slips into your breast pocket with a camera, projector and speaker sticking out the top.