WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.640 you again. I swear if you ask me for 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:10.960 tech news one more time, you're going to get 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:13.200 it. Tech news. That's That's what you're 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:18.320 going to uh uh here you go. Google search was ruled a monopoly last August. 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:23.519 So this week, the tech giant and the US Justice Department are back in court to 00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:27.840 figure out a way to make this right that doesn't involve Google paying the DOJ 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:31.359 $20 billion a year to use Google as their default search provider. It's like 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:37.600 the only card Google has. Uh, no. The DOJ wants Google to sell Chrome and Open 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:42.399 AAI is interested. According to head of product for ChachiBT, Nick Turley, 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:46.559 OpenAI's ambitions to build their own web browser are wellknown. But what the 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:52.559 company really seems to be interested in is access to Google's search API since, 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:57.280 as Turley put it, OpenAI's had significant quality issues with their 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:01.760 existing search partner referred to as provider number one in the courtroom 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:06.560 because you always want to avoid saying Bing's name out loud for obvious. Did I 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:12.159 hear my name? Ah, jeez. Nope. Nobody said anything. You want to search 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:14.240 something? Oh man. Turley said OpenAI 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:19.439 had asked Google if they could license their search API, but Google declined. 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:23.600 So, even if OpenAI wasn't allowed to buy Chrome, having that license sure would 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:27.680 be nice to restore competition, something Google is going to have to get 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:32.720 into the practice of allowing. During the trial, it came out that Google was 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:35.600 paying Samsung an enormous sum to 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:39.880 pre-install Gemini on Galaxy devices while blocking Motorola from making a 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:45.759 similar deal with AI search engine Perplexity. In other antitrust news, the 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:49.759 FTC just sued Uber for making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions in 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:54.159 what is hopefully a signal that the Trump administration will continue to 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:58.479 rein in big tech. Or maybe the ghost of former FDC chair Lena Khan is haunting 00:01:56.399 --> 00:02:02.560 the halls and suing corporations is the only way to let her spirit rest. We 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:08.640 can't know. Intel has begun rolling out 200s Boost, a new BIOS profile that will 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:14.560 let gamers overclock compatible Core Ultra 200S processors without losing 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:20.640 warranty coverage in what some are calling an okay apology for making its 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:23.120 Aerolake chips suck at gaming so hard. I 00:02:20.640 --> 00:02:28.560 didn't buy them, but I accept. The new profile enables significant bumps in 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:34.239 fabric, die-to-d memory frequencies for 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:36.239 the 285K, 265K NKF, and 245K NKF on 00:02:34.239 --> 00:02:41.519 select motherboards with select memory kits. YouTuber Derbower has already got 00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:45.599 some updated benchmarks of the 285K on his channel, showing that while it's 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:51.519 still not going to touch the Ryzen 9 9950 X3D, enabling the 200S boost 00:02:49.200 --> 00:02:58.239 profile can boost gaming performance by anywhere from 4% to 19%. Pretty good. 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 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:07.519 jobs to do it. I know connecting those two pieces of news doesn't make any 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:12.480 sense, but I'm just telling you what happened. Okay, stop yelling at me. An 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:15.120 AI service called Cluey that promotes 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:19.360 cheating on everything by having AI essentially provide you with dialogue 00:03:16.959 --> 00:03:24.680 options and information in real time has gone viral thanks to a cluelessly dumb 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:30.480 ad in which the app's creator unsuccessfully tries to date a woman a 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:31.920 few years older than him. He's 21 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:36.640 apparently, but they act like he's a 13-year-old sneaking into a scary movie. 00:03:34.799 --> 00:03:40.959 The the vibe is off. But I guess I should expect this from a guy whose 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:46.400 previous product was also about cheating on coding interviews and who equates 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:48.560 using spellch check and Google with 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:53.599 going on a date. Uh, which apparently is not a real use case for the product 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:59.040 according to him. What is this ad? The guy's tweet here reveals that his real 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:01.280 goal seems to be to cheat attention and 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:05.920 go viral by apparently pedalling vaporware because yeah, hands-on 00:04:03.519 --> 00:04:11.519 impressions of Cluey indicate that it kind of sucks. Uh, as weird as it is to 00:04:08.239 --> 00:04:13.840 say, NVIDIA's local AI powered Project G 00:04:11.519 --> 00:04:18.160 Assist might actually not suck. The company just announced that gamers can 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:22.880 now build custom plugins to enable actually useful voice commands with some 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:27.680 examples being telling a plugin to change your system lighting, adjust fan 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:32.479 speed, check if a streamer is live, very useful, and who knows what else. NVIDIA 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:37.199 has posted full instructions on GitHub. Just don't write a plugin to help you 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:42.560 develop exam questions. 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No. Also, yeah, that's 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 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 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:29.280 the launch is delayed. Great. The European Union has fined Apple the 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:31.199 equivalent of $570 million and Meta $228 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:35.120 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act. In Apple's case, by 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:38.960 restricting user access to better deals outside of the App Store and in Meta's 00:07:36.880 --> 00:07:43.840 case, by providing insufficient choices for privacy-minded users. Epic Games 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:47.919 issued a press release about this because they're basically a news outlet 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:53.360 that solely reports on news that has almost nothing to do with them as long 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:53.360 as Apple is losing in some 00:07:54.120 --> 00:08:01.039 way. I don't do that. Emails released in the other antitrust trial that's going 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:06.080 on right now, Metas, have revealed that in 2022, in order to try and boost 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:12.080 Facebook's popularity, Mark Zuckerberg had a bright idea. Delete everyone's 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:13.599 entire friends list. Maybe removing all 00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:18.560 of their social connections on the platform, which they spend a lot of time 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:20.759 building, would somehow keep them on the 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:25.199 platform. Is that would people like that? I wouldn't know. I'm not people. 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:30.160 That was suck. That was Zuck talking by the way. Hello. And MIT researchers have 00:08:27.919 --> 00:08:34.000 created a meta material, which means a material made by combining a bunch of 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:39.360 microscopic structures that could be used to build, among other things, 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:44.959 stretchy computer processors. It could also lead to stretchy computer 00:08:41.560 --> 00:08:46.720 enclosures like laptops. And if that's 00:08:44.959 --> 00:08:50.560 the case, I'm not sure why we'd stop there. I mean, stretchy everything. 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 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:59.040 things like crypto and AI, we might as well get some floppy iPads out of the 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 00:09:02.839 --> 00:09:09.040 news. That is if I found the time to watch all three initial episodes of 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:11.519 Andor. If I haven't, then I'll be doing that.