Okay, I've been thinking about this a lot and I'm pretty sure a hundred guys
could beat one gorilla unless he had
watched this show and become incredibly smart. At that point, all bets are off.
It's like Planet of the Apes fast takeoff situation. YouTube says they're
running an experiment where a small percentage of viewers will see blurred
video thumbnails when they search for topics that frequently include sexual
themes. The feature is meant to help users avoid accidentally viewing
sensitive content if that's what they want. Users will have the option to
unblur the thumbnails though if they're more in touch with their uh sensitive
side. But for most people, blurring mature content should dissuade them from
viewing it. I mean, hey, it worked for the
Japanese. Wait, YouTube apparently ran a similar experiment back in 2023. They
love science. But this latest one comes as the tech world is grappling with how
to stop children from having their brain melted by social platforms. That's only
for grown-ups. We're closer to death, so it doesn't matter. But who's responsible
for age verification? Well, Meta, Spotify, and other app makers think uh
not them. They think it's Apple and Google's job. So they formed a lobbying
group called the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience or
CackMe. They care about obviously good
and uncontroversial things like interoperability, a level playing field,
and age verification being someone else's responsibility. Okay, I'm mocking
them, but there is a good argument that if we figure out how to verify age
without compromising privacy, it probably shouldn't be a separate
implementation for every app. Regardless, it's good that people are
thinking about this now and even enacting legislation. Finland just
banned students from using smartphones at school, except under strict
conditions, like if one of their Tik Toks hit a million likes. You got to
check it at that point. Taiwan just passed a law that will limit the world's
preeeminent chipmaker TSMC from manufacturing its top tier technologies
outside of the country. A move partially meant to stave off annexation attempts
from China. Now, despite this, TSMC just broke ground on its third chip
manufacturing facility in Arizona, which some industry leaders reportedly expect
to produce chips based on the company's currently most advanced N2 process. But
but they'll change their mind, right? I mean, speaking of changing your mind,
Trump just softened his tariffs a bit for the auto industry, exempting
automakers from paying some tariffs on steel and aluminum if they're part of a
whole assembly. Unfortunately, it's not the tariffs themselves that are really
the issue anymore. It's the fact that they're constantly changing. So, this
doesn't One company's looking better than the others after the most recent
tariffs, though, and you'll never guess who it is. Two Tesla models are the only
vehicles exempt from the new auto tariffs, which don't apply to vehicles
with a domestic content rating of at least 85%. The exact rating given to the
Model Y by the made in America Auto Index from the KOD School of Business.
Phew, congrats Tesla. Close one. Meta
summoned some AI announcements at their first specifically AI focused
conference, which they called Llamacon. but which I will refer to as Meta Lama
because it sounds like an ancient book of demonically overhyped In
addition to llama models being available through an API like OpenAI's offerings,
Meta also finally unveiled a dedicated mobile app for their Meta AI chatbot
with a better voice mode and a social feed so you can see what kind of slop
the AI is throwing at your friends. It's slop, but hey, that's my friend's slop.
It slurps different. If you'd prefer to keep things just between you and the AI,
though, WhatsApp says it's developing a system kind of similar to Apple's
private cloud to accomplish this. This feature follows complaints about Meta AI
being suddenly added to WhatsApp with no way to remove it. Paulie Hudson at the
Guardian compared it to Apple's genius idea back in 2014 to make everyone's
iTunes automatically download a free
YouTube album. Why would anyone be mad about this? Somehow, there are still
WikiHow entries on how to get rid of it. In other AI news, Wikipedia says it's
going to use AI. Now, don't freak out. Calm down. They are very explicitly not
using it to write the text on the Wikipedia pages. They're just using it
to automate some support processes so that human editors can spend their time
editing out all the nonsense other humans are constantly trying to force in
there. Because AI tools should be used to help humans. That's why free stock
image provider Freepick and AI startup Foul.ai developed Flight, an open-source
image generator trained entirely on properly licensed content. Another AI
focused production company, Asteria, says the same is true for their models,
which will be a core part of an upcoming experimental sci-fi film developed in
part by actress and writer Natasha Leon. According to her, this project is going
to be wild. Saying, "Imagine if Diane
West and Diane Katon at their loquacious
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make the gorilla super smart, but I don't really feel it yet. Um, maybe I
have to do the quick bits first. Nintendo's virtual game card system
announced alongside the Switch 2 is now rolling out for Switch One systems. But
to current Switch owners dismay, it closes a loophole that has allowed two
Switch consoles to play the same digital copy of a game online simultaneously.
Now, in some scenarios, you might still be able to pull this off if one console
is disconnected from Wi-Fi, so you won't be online. But that's obviously
unacceptable, and the Switch One is now ruined. I will not be pre-ordering the
Switch 2 because Nintendo's pre-order requirements say I can't. Android 16
will bring some noticeable UI changes. According to a rundown by Android
Authority, many new elements, including the quick settings panel, will feature
fairly iOSesque frosted glass
transparencies instead of solid backgrounds, making dark mode in some
cases look a hell of a lot not like dark
mode. I've had enough of this. I think it's time for a dumb phone. Like the
Side phone, a stylish new tiny guy with
a swappable key keypad. Oh, it's keypad.
keypad and up to eight days of battery. That thing can't hurt me. It's too
small. Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stand during the Department of Justice's
antirust remedies trial to warn the judge that forcing Google to break up
its business could have
unforeseen consequences.
For example, if Google was forced to license its search API so other
companies could build proper competitors, why? That might crush
Google's spirit to the point they wouldn't even care to keep working on
search. And then people might use other search engines instead. Why that? Oh,
that's the point. And smart rings are getting pretty sophisticated. I think
we're now ready for the raw ring. a
finger loop for you and your partner that's packed with sensors so it can
notify you when your partner is feeling
aroused. Uh, the Raw Ring creators say
their product can help married couples build loyalty and trust uh by not
trusting that they'll behave themselves. I I don't know where was their head at
here. They're also making a dating app, and I don't need to know how that works,
but I would like to know if you can spoof this thing by putting the ring on
a sausage, because if so, I mean, the whole idea is shot. Just like this
episode. Thanks for watching, you 100 guys. I'm Gorilla and I'll be back here
on Friday for more tech news to give to you.
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