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It's day four of our CES coverage, and I'll admit it, I'm losing it a bit. I'm

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more machine than man now. Twisted and evil,

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but I know you guys want that tech news. Robots. NVIDIA's keynote focused on AI

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and robotics with a handful of robot cameos. But how about everyone else's

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bots? Qualcomm just unveiled a full robotics tech stack built to power

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everything from home robots to industrial machines and of course,

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humanoids. And were there ever some humanoid bots around the CES show floor

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this year? LG showed off their Cloyd home robot designed to help with

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household chores. And now it can also recognize faces. Cloyd, that's my worst

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uncle. If he tries to high-five you, you just roll away, pal. Stiff that guy. Not

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to be outdone, Switchbot unveiled Onero H1, another robot butler, but this one

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comes with modular attachments, and it's got a bit of a slowmoving Slenderman

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vibe to it, which I'm sure some somewhere might want. Don't fret,

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robotics aren't just about replacing a millionaire's human cleaning staff.

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They're also about taking over industrial manufacturing. Case in point,

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Boston Dynamics productionready Atlas, which can now carry heavier components

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while maintaining balance and is powered by Google's Gemini AI. This brick sh

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house is headed to Hyundai factories for 2028 to start building cars, making it

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even more clear that some robots are definitely coming for some human jobs.

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Outside CES, robot sports are booming. As CNN notes, humanoid bots racing and

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playing soccer are really showing how fast this tech is advancing. So,

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athletes might be losing some of their jobs soon, too. I'm sorry, LeBron. You

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might not get to play basketball until you're 50 after all. Did you see the

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Onire H1's physique? I bet that thing can hoop. It wasn't just humanl looking

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robots that we got at CES. We also saw a bunch of oddball droids built for doing

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chores or whatever the hell the Lynx M20 Pro allterrain robot is meant to do. It

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actually won an innovation award. And although it might just seem like a robot

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dog that can stomp or roll its way through the desert, once you see it jump

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on a set of stairs like something out of a skateboard video, you might find yourself saying, "Screw it. Give this

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thing a trophy." As for more practical bots, we got Anker's new Yuthi S2 robot

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vacuum, which doubles as an aroma therapy diffuser, so your house will

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smell clean and smell nice. La dah. That's very fancy. But can it climb

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stairs? Because Robo Rock's new experimental Soros Rover certainly can.

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And look at those legs. Damn, maybe this

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thing can ball, too. Speaking of stupid, sexy robots, Motion Spino S1 Pro pool

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cleaning robot can pull itself out of the water like a Bond girl. Or Bond

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himself. You remember those little shorts? Wow. Intel and AMD have been

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exchanging words this week. After Intel launches Panther Lake chips, the first

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built on their new 18A process, one of their execs told PC World that AMD is

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selling ancient silicon, while we're selling up-to-ate processors

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specifically designed for the gaming handheld market. AMD's Raul Tiku fired

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back, calling Intel's benchmark comparisons not even a fair fight since

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Intel compared their highest end chip to AMD's mid tier. He also called Panther

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Lake a Swiss Army knife that carries all of this baggage from its chiplet

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architecture, implying it's not purpose-built for handhelds like AMD's Z

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series. But you know what? That ancient silicon is actually selling. AMD's Ryzen

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7 5800X, a Zen 3 chip from 2020, just

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outsold every other CPU on Amazon Germany last month, moving nearly 2,000

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units. Turns out when DDR4 is half the price of DDR5, people are happy to build

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ancient AM4 systems. After taking shots at Intel, AMD climbed into the nextG AI

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chip arena with NVIDIA. Lisa Sue gave us a glimpse of AMD's MI500 series

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performance, claiming a 1,000 times performance uplift over their older

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MI300X. Uh-oh. Look out, NVIDIA. AMD is a

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thousand times better. Except maybe it's not. Those numbers are comparing an 8GPU

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MI300X node to an entire MI500 rack with

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how many GPUs? Nobody knows. Basically,

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AMD is that kid in high school who had a girlfriend who lives in Canada. Turns

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at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. I think some

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of my ancestors will be there. You get it? Cuz I'm a robot from the future. No

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The quickest bits are the friends we made along the way. Transient,

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meaningful, and still your friend on Facebook 15 years later. Shanghai is

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gearing up to massproduce chips made from malibdinum dulfide, a 2D material

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just a few atoms thick. Why does it matter? As silicon chips shrink, they

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hit physical limits that cause energy leakage and overheating. 2D materials

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let electrical signals move more efficiently with way less heat. The Wuji

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chip packs 5900 transistors, which is nothing compared to the billions in your

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phone. But the previous world record for this type of 2D chip was 115. So they

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just 50x the technology. Shanghai Atomic Technology plans to have the production

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line fully operational by June 2026 with

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targets of 90 nanometer equivalent processes this year, 28 nanometer by

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2027 and 5 or 3 nanometer by 2028. For

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reference, TSMC's cutting edge is currently 3nm. So if China's timeline

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holds, which is a big if, they could have a fundamentally different approach

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to chipmidsteps the silicon limits everyone else is

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running into. Then again, remember how hype you were for graphing? OpenAI

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launched Chat GBT health this week. It's a non-hippaco compliant, non-enttoend

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encrypted health assisted. All you have to do is connect it with B.Well and give

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Sam Alman access to your complete medical history and all your device

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data. In exchange, you get health advice that OpenAI explicitly says is not

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intended to provide diagnosis or treatment guidance. Meanwhile, Utah just

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became the first state to let an AI system legally prescribe medication. For

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$4 per prescription, Dr. Chatbot can renew 190 different chronic condition

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meds. Pharmacists are thrilled. One called it a complicated and unnecessary

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solution since pharmacists could just renew scripts themselves. Another said,

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"It's insulting professionally that the state trusts a computer more than me."

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While that sounds bad, according to Doctrronic's own non-perviewed study,

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their AI matches real doctor's diagnosis 81% of the time. So, only one in five of

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you might have a problem. Pretty good for our audience, honestly. [laughter]

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Google announced Gmail's quote unquote biggest update in 20 years. And

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surprise, it's all AI. Front and center

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is AI overviews in email search. Remember how hard it was to hit F or use

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the search bar? Now you can finally give your exhausted pinky finger a break. All

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you have to do is let Google read all of your emails and then you can ask Gemini,

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"Who have I told you that I have a girlfriend up in Canada?" And Gemini

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will dig through your inbox and let you know all the people you've lied to in

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your life. There's also a new AI inbox view that prioritizes your to-dos and

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identifies your VIPs. If users don't want the service, then they have to opt

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out of it. Users have to opt out, not in. And if you don't, then Google's

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going to read all your emails. I mean, they probably already were, but now

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they're going to be weird about it. Bose is officially letting its sound touch

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smart speakers reach their end of life and will shut down cloud support this

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spring. But instead of just bricking them all like most companies do these

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days, Bose is releasing the API and documentation. Now developers and

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enthusiasts can build their own tools and keep the devices useful. Bose is

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apparently keeping things like AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, and local

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app control working as basic features. Please, everyone else, learn from this.

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It's crazy that Bose looks like an absolute hero for just not bricking

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something that people have paid for. We're living in the age of the bare

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minimum level of decency here. It's so depressing. Thank you, Bose. After

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several lawsuits, Roblox has decided that child safety is important. The

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company announced that they now require facial age verification for users to use

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chat. Users have to let the app scan their face. Then it'll guess their age

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and sort them into discrete age groups to ensure that users are only

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communicating with other people their age, which means teenagers could end up

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chatting with Jennifer Aniston, Kiana Reeves, or other time travelers. Roblox

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claims that images are deleted immediately after processing. Despite

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this, both Texas and Louisiana have filed lawsuits over new child safety

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concerns. Meanwhile, GitHub is also playing Content Cop, but with a lot less

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explanation. The platform recently banned or suspended around 80 to 90

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repositories from 40 to 50 developers making mods for adult games and sex

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toys. Most weren't told what rules they broke. GitHub updated its acceptable use

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policy in October to ban sexually themed content, but hasn't clarified how that

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applies to code for vibrator plugins. Some accounts were mysteriously

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reinstated after a journalist started asking questions. Still with no

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explanation though, effective developers are now migrating to alternatives like

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GitGon, which is exactly what it sounds like.

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And if you don't know, please don't ask because I can't explain more or YouTube

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will demonetize us with explanation.

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Speaking of YouTube, please come back to it tomorrow for the last of our five

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days in a row of CES tech news. Who knows what kind of crazy could

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happen? I certainly don't. And Lord knows I'm confused and scared as hell. I

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heard Rally will be here, though.