1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:06,640 you again. I swear if you ask me for 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:10,960 tech news one more time, you're going to get 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:13,200 it. Tech news. That's That's what you're 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:18,320 going to uh uh here you go. Google search was ruled a monopoly last August. 5 00:00:15,759 --> 00:00:23,519 So this week, the tech giant and the US Justice Department are back in court to 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:27,840 figure out a way to make this right that doesn't involve Google paying the DOJ 7 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:31,359 $20 billion a year to use Google as their default search provider. It's like 8 00:00:29,359 --> 00:00:37,600 the only card Google has. Uh, no. The DOJ wants Google to sell Chrome and Open 9 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:42,399 AAI is interested. According to head of product for ChachiBT, Nick Turley, 10 00:00:40,079 --> 00:00:46,559 OpenAI's ambitions to build their own web browser are wellknown. But what the 11 00:00:44,719 --> 00:00:52,559 company really seems to be interested in is access to Google's search API since, 12 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:57,280 as Turley put it, OpenAI's had significant quality issues with their 13 00:00:54,719 --> 00:01:01,760 existing search partner referred to as provider number one in the courtroom 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:06,560 because you always want to avoid saying Bing's name out loud for obvious. Did I 15 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:12,159 hear my name? Ah, jeez. Nope. Nobody said anything. You want to search 16 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:14,240 something? Oh man. Turley said OpenAI 17 00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:19,439 had asked Google if they could license their search API, but Google declined. 18 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:23,600 So, even if OpenAI wasn't allowed to buy Chrome, having that license sure would 19 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:27,680 be nice to restore competition, something Google is going to have to get 20 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:32,720 into the practice of allowing. During the trial, it came out that Google was 21 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:35,600 paying Samsung an enormous sum to 22 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:39,880 pre-install Gemini on Galaxy devices while blocking Motorola from making a 23 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:45,759 similar deal with AI search engine Perplexity. In other antitrust news, the 24 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:49,759 FTC just sued Uber for making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions in 25 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:54,159 what is hopefully a signal that the Trump administration will continue to 26 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:58,479 rein in big tech. Or maybe the ghost of former FDC chair Lena Khan is haunting 27 00:01:56,399 --> 00:02:02,560 the halls and suing corporations is the only way to let her spirit rest. We 28 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:08,640 can't know. Intel has begun rolling out 200s Boost, a new BIOS profile that will 29 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:14,560 let gamers overclock compatible Core Ultra 200S processors without losing 30 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:20,640 warranty coverage in what some are calling an okay apology for making its 31 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:23,120 Aerolake chips suck at gaming so hard. I 32 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:28,560 didn't buy them, but I accept. The new profile enables significant bumps in 33 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:34,239 fabric, die-to-d memory frequencies for 34 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:36,239 the 285K, 265K NKF, and 245K NKF on 35 00:02:34,239 --> 00:02:41,519 select motherboards with select memory kits. YouTuber Derbower has already got 36 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:45,599 some updated benchmarks of the 285K on his channel, showing that while it's 37 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:51,519 still not going to touch the Ryzen 9 9950 X3D, enabling the 200S boost 38 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:58,239 profile can boost gaming performance by anywhere from 4% to 19%. Pretty good. 39 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:04,080 It's just too bad that Intel had to cut 20% of their staff, which is like 20,000 40 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:07,519 jobs to do it. I know connecting those two pieces of news doesn't make any 41 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:12,480 sense, but I'm just telling you what happened. Okay, stop yelling at me. An 42 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:15,120 AI service called Cluey that promotes 43 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:19,360 cheating on everything by having AI essentially provide you with dialogue 44 00:03:16,959 --> 00:03:24,680 options and information in real time has gone viral thanks to a cluelessly dumb 45 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:30,480 ad in which the app's creator unsuccessfully tries to date a woman a 46 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,920 few years older than him. He's 21 47 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:36,640 apparently, but they act like he's a 13-year-old sneaking into a scary movie. 48 00:03:34,799 --> 00:03:40,959 The the vibe is off. But I guess I should expect this from a guy whose 49 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:46,400 previous product was also about cheating on coding interviews and who equates 50 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:48,560 using spellch check and Google with 51 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:53,599 going on a date. Uh, which apparently is not a real use case for the product 52 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:59,040 according to him. What is this ad? The guy's tweet here reveals that his real 53 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:01,280 goal seems to be to cheat attention and 54 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:05,920 go viral by apparently pedalling vaporware because yeah, hands-on 55 00:04:03,519 --> 00:04:11,519 impressions of Cluey indicate that it kind of sucks. Uh, as weird as it is to 56 00:04:08,239 --> 00:04:13,840 say, NVIDIA's local AI powered Project G 57 00:04:11,519 --> 00:04:18,160 Assist might actually not suck. The company just announced that gamers can 58 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:22,880 now build custom plugins to enable actually useful voice commands with some 59 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:27,680 examples being telling a plugin to change your system lighting, adjust fan 60 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:32,479 speed, check if a streamer is live, very useful, and who knows what else. 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I mean, China's ban on rare 97 00:07:04,639 --> 00:07:13,120 earth materials exports has caused Tesla to delay the launch of its Optimus 98 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:15,039 humanoid robot. No. Also, yeah, that's 99 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:19,120 totally why it's delayed, not because it wasn't ready, which is why they had to 100 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:22,880 have humans control them. Humans are who are now going to be out of a job since 101 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:29,280 the launch is delayed. Great. The European Union has fined Apple the 102 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,199 equivalent of $570 million and Meta $228 103 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:35,120 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act. In Apple's case, by 104 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:38,960 restricting user access to better deals outside of the App Store and in Meta's 105 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:43,840 case, by providing insufficient choices for privacy-minded users. Epic Games 106 00:07:41,759 --> 00:07:47,919 issued a press release about this because they're basically a news outlet 107 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:53,360 that solely reports on news that has almost nothing to do with them as long 108 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:53,360 as Apple is losing in some 109 00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:01,039 way. I don't do that. Emails released in the other antitrust trial that's going 110 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:06,080 on right now, Metas, have revealed that in 2022, in order to try and boost 111 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:12,080 Facebook's popularity, Mark Zuckerberg had a bright idea. Delete everyone's 112 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:13,599 entire friends list. Maybe removing all 113 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:18,560 of their social connections on the platform, which they spend a lot of time 114 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:20,759 building, would somehow keep them on the 115 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:25,199 platform. Is that would people like that? I wouldn't know. I'm not people. 116 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:30,160 That was suck. That was Zuck talking by the way. Hello. And MIT researchers have 117 00:08:27,919 --> 00:08:34,000 created a meta material, which means a material made by combining a bunch of 118 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:39,360 microscopic structures that could be used to build, among other things, 119 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:44,959 stretchy computer processors. It could also lead to stretchy computer 120 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:46,720 enclosures like laptops. And if that's 121 00:08:44,959 --> 00:08:50,560 the case, I'm not sure why we'd stop there. I mean, stretchy everything. 122 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:54,240 Someone get the investors in on this. If we're going to bet the whole economy on 123 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:59,040 things like crypto and AI, we might as well get some floppy iPads out of the 124 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:05,680 deal. I Now, here's a deal for you. You come back on Friday and I provide tech 125 00:09:02,839 --> 00:09:09,040 news. That is if I found the time to watch all three initial episodes of 126 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,519 Andor. If I haven't, then I'll be doing that.