Top Tech Claims on YouTube — July 2026

Mobilized individuals will receive all social guarantees applicable to military personnel serving under contract.

Andrey Kartapolov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, stated that the partial mobilization involves calling up approximately 300,000 people.

Patrick Boyle believes that if AI turns out to behave less like high-margin software and more like electricity, the value will flow to everyone using the tools as competition drives the price towards zero, rather than to the companies that built the models and funded the infrastructure.

Zhan Bei Ye's mother believes that if he hadn't stood by and watched Jiang Ning three years ago, she wouldn't have gone to jail.

Zhan Bei Ye secretly applied medicine to Jiang Ning's hand, surprising onlookers who believed he disliked her.

Zhan Bei Ye, Jiang Ning's childhood admirer and the only witness, provided only a written testimony and did not appear in court for her.

Eli the Computer Guy compares the current AI situation to a Ponzi scheme, where the deeper one gets into the financial fraud, the harder it becomes to exit without making victims whole.

Cloud-based AI firms, model builders, and other enterprises will share both product and cloud revenue with Nvidia through its new partnership program.

Nvidia's new partnership program, announced on a Thursday, offers fast-growing AI startups token credits to power their development in exchange for a slice of future profits.

Anthropic is reportedly renting approximately 220,000 to 240,000 GPUs from XAI.

The prevailing narrative has been that every GPU purchased is immediately put into production.

During the dot-com boom, fiber optic lines were laid but never powered on, a phenomenon referred to as "dark fiber."

A common narrative in 2026 is that the current situation is not an AI bubble because there are no "dark GPUs."

Eli the Computer Guy believes the AI industry is currently in a bubble, characterized by increasingly strange business plans for AI companies.

On October 25th, 1860, the Treaty of Beijing was signed, ending the Second Opium War and granting Britain new ports, legal opium trade, and the right to send Chinese workers to Europe and colonies as cheap labor.

Britain, the US, and France sent advisers and weapons to help the Qing dynasty crush the Taiping Rebellion because the Taipings opposed the opium trade, which threatened Western profits.

Hong Xuan, a humble village school teacher who had failed imperial exams multiple times, founded the God Worshipping Society in 1843 after strange visions convinced him he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ.

The Treaty of Nanjing's clause, which automatically extended any privileges granted to other foreigners to Britain, allowed other European nations and the US to immediately seek similar treaties, marking the beginning of China's century of humiliation.

During the early 19th century, the Qing dynasty ruled China, reaching the height of its power with borders surrounded by sea, mountains, and desert.

By the early 19th century, China's population had passed 300 million, while Britain had only around 16 million people.