{"video_id":"fp_5WTj9Wmc1f","title":"YouTube Upscaling/Policy Changes, Nvidia hits $5T, OpenAI for-profit + more!","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-10-30T02:57:00.066Z","duration_s":548,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":6.36,"text":"Sure Halloween's Michael Myers wordlessly standing is big-ass in your yard staring at you is pretty scary","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.48,"end_s":11.64,"text":"But not nearly as scary as me silently standing here not telling you the tech news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.8,"end_s":23.36,"text":"Well, that's too freaky I gotta tell you some tech news YouTube will begin automatically upscaling all videos under 1080p from SD to HD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.36,"end_s":28.2,"text":"The company announced this morning with plans to support upscaling to 4k in the future","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.2,"end_s":33.88,"text":"But unlike their experiment earlier this year sharpening YouTube shorts to an uncomfortably fine edge","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":34.2,"end_s":41.8,"text":"YouTube is graciously allowing creators to opt out of having their content upscaled as well as letting viewers toggle between","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":42.44,"end_s":49.72,"text":"Original resolution and the new Super resolution today YouTube also announced a few policy changes for one","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":49.72,"end_s":57.24,"text":"They'll soon expand their prohibitions on content that directs viewers to online gambling sites before doing this was okay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":57.24,"end_s":63.36,"text":"If the stuff being gambled was digital like video game skins cosmetics and NFTs","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":63.72,"end_s":70.36,"text":"Under the new rules that will not be allowed and neither will be watching video game content with lifelike human characters","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":70.36,"end_s":74.12,"text":"Committing large-scale violence against unarmed people or torturing someone","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":74.56,"end_s":84.24,"text":"if you're under 18 that That's just standard adult stuff. 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Okay instead","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":514.48,"end_s":520.4,"text":"We should trust a chatbot that recently mistook a US border patrol chief for the artist Cindy Sherman","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":520.4,"end_s":529.24,"text":"It doesn't know between plagiarism and identity crises Grock's looking less like Wikipedia 2.0 and more like clippy with confidence issues","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":529.24,"end_s":534.08,"text":"I'm so confident. We'll be seeing you on Friday for more tech news. I'm gonna bet on it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":534.08,"end_s":537.92,"text":"Please take it also. Here's a fun fact about John Carpenter's Halloween","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":538.24,"end_s":542.96,"text":"Despite being set during fall in Illinois. The film was actually shot during springtime in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":544.52,"end_s":548.28,"text":"California Wow must have been warm in that costume. Okay. Bye now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Sure Halloween's Michael Myers wordlessly standing is big-ass in your yard staring at you is pretty scary But not nearly as scary as me silently standing here not telling you the tech news Well, that's too freaky I gotta tell you some tech news YouTube will begin automatically upscaling all videos under 1080p from SD to HD The company announced this morning with plans to support upscaling to 4k in the future But unlike their experiment earlier this year sharpening YouTube shorts to an uncomfortably fine edge YouTube is graciously allowing creators to opt out of having their content upscaled as well as letting viewers toggle between Original resolution and the new Super resolution today YouTube also announced a few policy changes for one They'll soon expand their prohibitions on content that directs viewers to online gambling sites before doing this was okay If the stuff being gambled was digital like video game skins cosmetics and NFTs Under the new rules that will not be allowed and neither will be watching video game content with lifelike human characters Committing large-scale violence against unarmed people or torturing someone if you're under 18 that That's just standard adult stuff. Finally, it seems like YouTube will definitively solve the debate over whether Kratos or a Transhuman 40k space marine can really be called a human YouTube's also age restricting content that depicts casino style games Unfortunately, that means if you've got a hankering for social gambling content You're gonna have to go to a sporting event turn on the TV or visit any other website. Hey Hey, you want to bet you can find a gambling ad in under a minute Please bet me. I Need this NVIDIA hit a massive milestone today by becoming the first company ever to reach a five Trillion dollar market valuation last I remember they hit three trillion. Do they skip four and went right? That's what anyway It's a figure roughly on par with the entire German economy This historic jump followed a series of announcements at the company's GTC conference where CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the new IGX Thor processor meant to help power a Physical AI platform which is doing absolutely nothing to help my personal fear of terminators years of therapy Wasted the company then revealed a plan to deploy a fleet of robo taxis with uber by 2027 and a one billion dollar investment in Nokia to integrate AI into 6g networking Whatever that means they also announced a collaborative effort with Oracle and the US Department of Energy to build what will be America's largest super computer now still feeling the need to pack in even more announcements that aren't about gaming NVIDIA introduced and VQ link which is like their GPU interconnection system and V link but with a Q in it Because that's just a little quirky, but also because it lets classical computer servers talk good with quantum computers So I guess it's really a bit quirky Open AI has officially completed its long-awaited evolution from cap profit to just profit The company says that its new for-profit public benefit corporation will still be guided by its Non-profit board, you know like how a parent guides their kid who just bought a mid 80s GMC Jimmy with their allowance Do any of you know what that is? What is a GMC Jimmy? I think it's just a weird little car Apparently we're a channel that makes a good amount of obscure car jokes now I'll allow it as part of the shake-up Microsoft trimmed its ownership stake in open AI to 27% while open AI themselves pledged a casual 250 billion dollars in extra Azure cloud spending both sites have taken to calling this development a Natural evolution, which is probably their way of telling us that they they're still best friends This is how it always goes with most friendships This will ensure that companies can keep using chat GBT to replace humans whose jobs were as Sam Alton said in a recent interview Not real work. That's all right though because at least with their new PayPal integration These now jobless people will have an even easier time Spending their last remaining dollars to buy furniture through chat GPT's instant checkout feature The Halloween franchises had reboots remakes and alternate timelines all of varying quality, but with the quick bits You know, they're always gonna kick some ass Amazon says they're keeping their company nimble and strong by firing 14,000 people Well, it appears one thing these massive job cuts aren't keeping nimble and strong is Amazon's MMO new world Which appears to be dead Amazon game studios informed fans that the games recently launched season 10 and night Haven updates would be the game's final content releases That night Haven is now free and that they are committed to keeping the game's servers going through 2026 Amazon's Beth Galletti says that with these layoffs Amazon is making exciting bold bets And you know I can get behind that. I love a good bet. Please make a bet with me Amazon. I need this Don't go away. Where are you going? One X technologies is now taking pre-orders for a humanoid home robot called Neo Shipping in 2026 and priced at twenty thousand dollars or five hundred dollars a month with a subscription very affordable Neo is designed to tackle chores like folding laundry tidying rooms fetching items and turning lights on and off with basic autonomy up front and more complex tasks handled via expert mode Which means a human teleoperator from one X takes over the robot remotely with your permission So the so it can learn It needs to learn aside from the weirdness of allowing some stranger to remotely get inside your space You'll also be sharing data from your home So Neo's AI real-world training can improve still it's hard to be mad at this button-eyed little weirdo Just look at the stepbrothers poster style portrait of Neo on one X's website Grandpa befriending turtle neck sweater wearing mother f***ers already got me by the heartstrings 500 bucks bucks a month is nothing DRAM prices are set to soar by as much as 50% and according to a report from DigiTimes Major data center customers in the US and China are only receiving about 70% of their memory orders Apparently this issue is being driven by booming AI workloads that are diverting RAM production capacity towards more advanced Memory production leaving conventional DDR5 supplies tight similarly according to Korea's new daily Samsung electronics SK Hynex and Kyoksia are running their SSD production lines at full capacity yet high capacity SSDs of 8 terabytes and higher are Facing delivery delays of over a year now I'm not saying you should switch your Tesla into Mad Max mode and rip over to your nearest PC shop to scoop up RAM and SSDs Like they're 3,000 liters of the crucial resource guzzling But maybe China has officially launched the world's first wind-powered Undersea data center combining renewable energy with deep-sea cooling to reduce emissions and power costs The facility is located off the coast of the Hainan Province where it has easy access to a set of offshore wind turbines To supply electricity to the center and it allows the ocean to be used as its giant heat sink It's all for us Developers say the setup could cut energy use by 40% compared to land-based centers and plans are already in motion for more Data centers of this type kind of makes you wonder though one wrong cable tug and someone might be getting a seriously wet tech support ticket and XAI has launched Grockipedia fulfilling Elon Musk's dream of replacing Wikipedia by apparently copying huge chunks of Wikipedia Reports show the site replicates text from Wikipedia nearly word-for-word in some instances But guys Wikipedia isn't trustworthy. Okay instead We should trust a chatbot that recently mistook a US border patrol chief for the artist Cindy Sherman It doesn't know between plagiarism and identity crises Grock's looking less like Wikipedia 2.0 and more like clippy with confidence issues I'm so confident. We'll be seeing you on Friday for more tech news. I'm gonna bet on it Please take it also. Here's a fun fact about John Carpenter's Halloween Despite being set during fall in Illinois. The film was actually shot during springtime in California Wow must have been warm in that costume. Okay. Bye now"}