WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.279 It's day four of our CES coverage, and I'll admit it, I'm losing it a bit. I'm 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:11.200 more machine than man now. Twisted and evil, 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:15.759 but I know you guys want that tech news. Robots. NVIDIA's keynote focused on AI 00:00:13.840 --> 00:00:19.920 and robotics with a handful of robot cameos. But how about everyone else's 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:23.680 bots? Qualcomm just unveiled a full robotics tech stack built to power 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:27.760 everything from home robots to industrial machines and of course, 00:00:25.439 --> 00:00:32.079 humanoids. And were there ever some humanoid bots around the CES show floor 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:36.079 this year? LG showed off their Cloyd home robot designed to help with 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:41.040 household chores. And now it can also recognize faces. Cloyd, that's my worst 00:00:38.879 --> 00:00:46.480 uncle. If he tries to high-five you, you just roll away, pal. Stiff that guy. Not 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:50.559 to be outdone, Switchbot unveiled Onero H1, another robot butler, but this one 00:00:48.559 --> 00:00:55.199 comes with modular attachments, and it's got a bit of a slowmoving Slenderman 00:00:52.879 --> 00:00:59.199 vibe to it, which I'm sure some somewhere might want. Don't fret, 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:01.760 robotics aren't just about replacing a millionaire's human cleaning staff. 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:06.000 They're also about taking over industrial manufacturing. Case in point, 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:10.240 Boston Dynamics productionready Atlas, which can now carry heavier components 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:14.880 while maintaining balance and is powered by Google's Gemini AI. This brick sh 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:20.240 house is headed to Hyundai factories for 2028 to start building cars, making it 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:25.439 even more clear that some robots are definitely coming for some human jobs. 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:29.680 Outside CES, robot sports are booming. As CNN notes, humanoid bots racing and 00:01:27.759 --> 00:01:33.360 playing soccer are really showing how fast this tech is advancing. So, 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:37.600 athletes might be losing some of their jobs soon, too. I'm sorry, LeBron. You 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:41.439 might not get to play basketball until you're 50 after all. Did you see the 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:45.439 Onire H1's physique? I bet that thing can hoop. It wasn't just humanl looking 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:49.759 robots that we got at CES. We also saw a bunch of oddball droids built for doing 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:53.680 chores or whatever the hell the Lynx M20 Pro allterrain robot is meant to do. It 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:57.439 actually won an innovation award. And although it might just seem like a robot 00:01:55.759 --> 00:02:00.560 dog that can stomp or roll its way through the desert, once you see it jump 00:01:59.119 --> 00:02:06.159 on a set of stairs like something out of a skateboard video, you might find yourself saying, "Screw it. Give this 00:02:04.240 --> 00:02:10.800 thing a trophy." As for more practical bots, we got Anker's new Yuthi S2 robot 00:02:08.959 --> 00:02:15.040 vacuum, which doubles as an aroma therapy diffuser, so your house will 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:18.720 smell clean and smell nice. La dah. That's very fancy. But can it climb 00:02:16.959 --> 00:02:24.319 stairs? Because Robo Rock's new experimental Soros Rover certainly can. 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:26.640 And look at those legs. Damn, maybe this 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:31.200 thing can ball, too. Speaking of stupid, sexy robots, Motion Spino S1 Pro pool 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:35.120 cleaning robot can pull itself out of the water like a Bond girl. Or Bond 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:40.560 himself. You remember those little shorts? Wow. Intel and AMD have been 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:44.879 exchanging words this week. After Intel launches Panther Lake chips, the first 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:49.680 built on their new 18A process, one of their execs told PC World that AMD is 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:52.640 selling ancient silicon, while we're selling up-to-ate processors 00:02:50.959 --> 00:02:57.120 specifically designed for the gaming handheld market. AMD's Raul Tiku fired 00:02:55.519 --> 00:03:01.120 back, calling Intel's benchmark comparisons not even a fair fight since 00:02:58.959 --> 00:03:05.360 Intel compared their highest end chip to AMD's mid tier. He also called Panther 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:09.200 Lake a Swiss Army knife that carries all of this baggage from its chiplet 00:03:07.519 --> 00:03:13.599 architecture, implying it's not purpose-built for handhelds like AMD's Z 00:03:11.440 --> 00:03:20.080 series. But you know what? That ancient silicon is actually selling. AMD's Ryzen 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:22.239 7 5800X, a Zen 3 chip from 2020, just 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:27.360 outsold every other CPU on Amazon Germany last month, moving nearly 2,000 00:03:24.959 --> 00:03:32.480 units. Turns out when DDR4 is half the price of DDR5, people are happy to build 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:37.920 ancient AM4 systems. After taking shots at Intel, AMD climbed into the nextG AI 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:42.799 chip arena with NVIDIA. Lisa Sue gave us a glimpse of AMD's MI500 series 00:03:40.239 --> 00:03:46.720 performance, claiming a 1,000 times performance uplift over their older 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:51.280 MI300X. Uh-oh. Look out, NVIDIA. AMD is a 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:58.400 thousand times better. Except maybe it's not. Those numbers are comparing an 8GPU 00:03:54.080 --> 00:04:01.519 MI300X node to an entire MI500 rack with 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:03.599 how many GPUs? Nobody knows. Basically, 00:04:01.519 --> 00:04:07.599 AMD is that kid in high school who had a girlfriend who lives in Canada. Turns 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:12.319 out Canada is actually a real place. And if you visit, you can use our sponsor, 00:04:09.519 --> 00:04:18.320 Sy. Hi, I'm Terminator. Send back to protect John Kana. And yes, I'll be back 00:04:14.959 --> 00:04:20.560 online instantly with SY. My mission 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:26.160 can't be compromised by suspicious SIM dealers outside terminals. They could be 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:28.080 T1000s. I downloaded the ESIM and that's 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:32.400 it. 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Get an exclusive 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:07.919 50% discount on sale eim data plans by downloading the sale app and using code 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:09.600 TechLinked at checkout. 00:05:07.919 --> 00:05:13.280 The quickest bits are the friends we made along the way. Transient, 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:17.440 meaningful, and still your friend on Facebook 15 years later. Shanghai is 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:23.280 gearing up to massproduce chips made from malibdinum dulfide, a 2D material 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:27.120 just a few atoms thick. Why does it matter? As silicon chips shrink, they 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:31.280 hit physical limits that cause energy leakage and overheating. 2D materials 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:36.400 let electrical signals move more efficiently with way less heat. The Wuji 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:40.240 chip packs 5900 transistors, which is nothing compared to the billions in your 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:46.720 phone. But the previous world record for this type of 2D chip was 115. So they 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:51.680 just 50x the technology. Shanghai Atomic Technology plans to have the production 00:05:48.320 --> 00:05:53.759 line fully operational by June 2026 with 00:05:51.680 --> 00:06:00.639 targets of 90 nanometer equivalent processes this year, 28 nanometer by 00:05:56.400 --> 00:06:03.120 2027 and 5 or 3 nanometer by 2028. For 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:07.440 reference, TSMC's cutting edge is currently 3nm. So if China's timeline 00:06:05.520 --> 00:06:10.560 holds, which is a big if, they could have a fundamentally different approach 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:14.160 to chipmidsteps the silicon limits everyone else is 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:19.600 running into. Then again, remember how hype you were for graphing? OpenAI 00:06:16.880 --> 00:06:23.919 launched Chat GBT health this week. It's a non-hippaco compliant, non-enttoend 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:28.319 encrypted health assisted. All you have to do is connect it with B.Well and give 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:32.560 Sam Alman access to your complete medical history and all your device 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:37.199 data. In exchange, you get health advice that OpenAI explicitly says is not 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:41.199 intended to provide diagnosis or treatment guidance. Meanwhile, Utah just 00:06:39.520 --> 00:06:46.560 became the first state to let an AI system legally prescribe medication. For 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:51.199 $4 per prescription, Dr. Chatbot can renew 190 different chronic condition 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:55.280 meds. Pharmacists are thrilled. One called it a complicated and unnecessary 00:06:53.280 --> 00:06:59.120 solution since pharmacists could just renew scripts themselves. Another said, 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:02.639 "It's insulting professionally that the state trusts a computer more than me." 00:07:01.039 --> 00:07:08.000 While that sounds bad, according to Doctrronic's own non-perviewed study, 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:12.880 their AI matches real doctor's diagnosis 81% of the time. So, only one in five of 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:16.960 you might have a problem. Pretty good for our audience, honestly. [laughter] 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:22.240 Google announced Gmail's quote unquote biggest update in 20 years. And 00:07:18.880 --> 00:07:24.880 surprise, it's all AI. Front and center 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:29.280 is AI overviews in email search. Remember how hard it was to hit F or use 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:33.360 the search bar? Now you can finally give your exhausted pinky finger a break. All 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:36.960 you have to do is let Google read all of your emails and then you can ask Gemini, 00:07:35.520 --> 00:07:40.240 "Who have I told you that I have a girlfriend up in Canada?" And Gemini 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:43.599 will dig through your inbox and let you know all the people you've lied to in 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:48.400 your life. There's also a new AI inbox view that prioritizes your to-dos and 00:07:45.919 --> 00:07:52.880 identifies your VIPs. If users don't want the service, then they have to opt 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:56.720 out of it. Users have to opt out, not in. And if you don't, then Google's 00:07:55.039 --> 00:08:00.319 going to read all your emails. I mean, they probably already were, but now 00:07:58.400 --> 00:08:04.319 they're going to be weird about it. Bose is officially letting its sound touch 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.639 smart speakers reach their end of life and will shut down cloud support this 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:12.319 spring. But instead of just bricking them all like most companies do these 00:08:10.400 --> 00:08:15.919 days, Bose is releasing the API and documentation. Now developers and 00:08:14.080 --> 00:08:19.759 enthusiasts can build their own tools and keep the devices useful. Bose is 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:24.080 apparently keeping things like AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, and local 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:28.319 app control working as basic features. Please, everyone else, learn from this. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:33.120 It's crazy that Bose looks like an absolute hero for just not bricking 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:37.440 something that people have paid for. We're living in the age of the bare 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:40.880 minimum level of decency here. It's so depressing. Thank you, Bose. After 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:45.279 several lawsuits, Roblox has decided that child safety is important. The 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:50.080 company announced that they now require facial age verification for users to use 00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:54.320 chat. Users have to let the app scan their face. Then it'll guess their age 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:57.600 and sort them into discrete age groups to ensure that users are only 00:08:55.760 --> 00:09:01.519 communicating with other people their age, which means teenagers could end up 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:05.440 chatting with Jennifer Aniston, Kiana Reeves, or other time travelers. Roblox 00:09:03.839 --> 00:09:09.920 claims that images are deleted immediately after processing. Despite 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:14.800 this, both Texas and Louisiana have filed lawsuits over new child safety 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:19.680 concerns. Meanwhile, GitHub is also playing Content Cop, but with a lot less 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:24.240 explanation. The platform recently banned or suspended around 80 to 90 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:28.640 repositories from 40 to 50 developers making mods for adult games and sex 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:33.279 toys. Most weren't told what rules they broke. GitHub updated its acceptable use 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:37.839 policy in October to ban sexually themed content, but hasn't clarified how that 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:40.800 applies to code for vibrator plugins. Some accounts were mysteriously 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:44.640 reinstated after a journalist started asking questions. Still with no 00:09:42.959 --> 00:09:48.720 explanation though, effective developers are now migrating to alternatives like 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:53.040 GitGon, which is exactly what it sounds like. 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:58.080 And if you don't know, please don't ask because I can't explain more or YouTube 00:09:54.959 --> 00:09:59.519 will demonetize us with explanation. 00:09:58.080 --> 00:10:03.200 Speaking of YouTube, please come back to it tomorrow for the last of our five 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:06.480 days in a row of CES tech news. Who knows what kind of crazy could 00:10:04.880 --> 00:10:12.080 happen? I certainly don't. And Lord knows I'm confused and scared as hell. I 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:12.080 heard Rally will be here, though.