Stephanie Hughes

It's almost spring.

Let's celebrate with a roundup of news on the Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review.

This week, the social network Maltbook finds a new home.

Plus, YouTube dominates the media landscape.

But first, a look at AI-related site outages at Amazon.

This week, the Financial Times reported that Amazon engineers were meeting to discuss recent outages of the website, including those related to its use of AI.

There weren't specifics on exactly which outages were being discussed.

But this does come after Amazon's online store was unavailable for thousands of customers for a few hours last week, according to user reports.

Amazon told us that only one incident discussed was related to AI, and none of them involved AI-written code.

I asked Jewel Burke-Solomon, managing partner at Collab Capital, what this tells us about the unintended consequences of jumping right into generative AI use.

Yeah, I mean, I think working with AI is kind of, it's like working with a new tool, maybe like working with a new coworker.

Is there just going to be a learning curve?

What do you think those guardrails might look like?

Okay, so let's move on to our next story.

YouTube is dominating the media landscape.

So a report out this week from the research firm Moffat Nathanson anoints YouTube as the world's largest media company.

It brought in more than $62 billion in revenue last year, surpassing Disney's media properties, not excluding revenue from the theme parks.

So what is YouTube doing right?

There are all these headlines out there about how old Hollywood is now bending the knee to this relatively young streaming company, relatively.

Are there any lessons that you think other streamers can take away here?