1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,160 It's day four of our CES coverage, and I'll admit it, I'm losing it a bit. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,840 I'm more machine than man now, twisted and evil. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:14,520 But I know you guys want that tech news. Robots, NVIDIA's keynote focused on AI and robotics 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,400 with a handful of robot cameos. But how about everyone else's bots? 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:23,360 Qualcomm just unveiled a full robotics tech stack, built to power everything from home robots 6 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:28,560 to industrial machines and of course, humanoids. And were there ever some humanoid bots 7 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,640 around the CES show floor this year? LG showed off their Coyd home robot 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,240 designed to help with household chores. And now it can also recognize faces. 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,480 Coyd, that's my worst uncle. If he tries to high five you, you just roll away pal. 10 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:46,920 Stiff that guy. Not to be outdone, Switchbot unveiled Onero H1, 11 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,840 another robot butler, but this one comes with modular attachments and it's got a bit 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:56,640 of a slow moving slender man vibe to it. Which I'm sure someone somewhere might want. 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,600 Don't fret, robotics aren't just about replacing a millionaire's human cleaning staff. 14 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,040 They're also about taking over industrial manufacturing. Case in point, Boston Dynamics production ready Atlas 15 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,200 which can now carry heavier components while maintaining balance and is powered 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:15,640 by Google's Gemini AI. This brick house is headed to Hyundai factories for 2028 17 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:22,800 to start building cars, making it even more clear that some robots are definitely coming for some human jobs. 18 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:28,600 Outside CES, robot sports are booming. As CNN notes, humanoid bots racing and playing soccer 19 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:34,760 are really showing how fast this tech is advancing so athletes might be losing some of their jobs soon too. 20 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,680 I'm sorry LeBron, you might not get to play basketball until you're 50 after all. 21 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,520 Did you see the Onero H1's physique? I bet that thing can hoop. 22 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:47,080 It wasn't just human looking robots that we got at CES, we also saw a bunch of oddball droids built 23 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:51,920 for do-and-chores or whatever the hell the Lynx M20 Pro all terrain robot is meant to do. 24 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,960 It actually won an innovation award and although it might just seem like a robot dog 25 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,860 that can stomp or roll its way through the desert, once you see it jump on a set of stairs 26 00:01:59,860 --> 00:02:03,920 like something out of a skateboard video, you might find yourself saying, screw it, 27 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:09,320 give this thing a trophy. As for more practical bots, we got Anker's new Ufie S2 robot vacuum 28 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:14,920 which doubles as an aromatherapy diffuser. So your house will smell clean and smell nice la-dee-da. 29 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:20,080 That's very fancy, but can it climb stairs? Because Roborock's new experimental Soros rover 30 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,400 certainly can and look at those legs. 31 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,520 Damn, maybe this thing can fall too. Speaking of stupid sexy robots, 32 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:33,120 Mamosion's Spino S1 Pro pool cleaning robot can pull itself out of the water like a Bond girl 33 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,720 or Bond himself. You remember those little shorts? Wow. 34 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,800 Intel and AMD have been exchanging words this week 35 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:44,600 after Intel launches Panther Lake chips, the first built on their new 18A process. 36 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,960 One of their execs told PCworld that AMD is selling ancient silicon while we're selling 37 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:53,780 up-to-date processors specifically designed for the gaming handheld market. 38 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:57,660 AMD's Raul Tiku fired back, calling Intel's benchmark comparisons 39 00:02:57,660 --> 00:03:02,460 not even a fair fight since Intel compared their highest end chip to AMD's mid-tier. 40 00:03:02,460 --> 00:03:06,940 He also called Panther Lake a Swiss army knife that carries all of this baggage from its 41 00:03:06,940 --> 00:03:10,400 chiplet architecture, implying it's not purpose built for handhelds 42 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,420 like AMD's Z series. But you know what? That ancient silicon is actually selling. 43 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:19,580 AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X, a Zen 3 chip from 2020, 44 00:03:19,580 --> 00:03:23,420 just outsold every other CPU on Amazon Germany last month. 45 00:03:23,420 --> 00:03:28,460 Moving nearly 2,000 units. Turns out when DDR4 is half the price of DDR5, 46 00:03:28,460 --> 00:03:31,620 people are happy to build ancient AM4 systems. 47 00:03:31,620 --> 00:03:37,160 After taking shots at Intel, AMD climbed into the next-gen AI chip arena with NVIDIA. 48 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,660 Lisa Sue gave us a glimpse of AMD's MI500 series performance 49 00:03:40,660 --> 00:03:44,140 claiming a 1,000 times performance uplift 50 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:47,540 over their older MI300X. Uh-oh. 51 00:03:47,540 --> 00:03:51,660 Look out, NVIDIA. AMD is 1,000 times better. Except maybe it's not. 52 00:03:51,660 --> 00:03:55,660 Those numbers are comparing an eight GPU MI300X node 53 00:03:55,660 --> 00:04:00,340 to an entire MI500 rack with how many GPUs? 54 00:04:00,340 --> 00:04:05,420 Nobody knows. Basically, AMD is that kid you knew in high school who had a girlfriend who lives in Canada. 55 00:04:05,420 --> 00:04:09,420 Turns out Canada is actually a real place. And if you visit, you can use our sponsor, 56 00:04:09,420 --> 00:04:13,620 Saili. The quickest bits are the friends we made along the way. 57 00:04:13,620 --> 00:04:17,620 Transient, meaningful, and still your friend on Facebook 15 years later. 58 00:04:17,620 --> 00:04:22,580 Shanghai is gearing up to mass-produced chips made from molybdenum disulfide, 59 00:04:22,580 --> 00:04:26,540 a 2D material just a few atoms thick. Why does it matter? 60 00:04:26,540 --> 00:04:31,240 As silicon chips shrink, they hit physical limits that cause energy leakage and overheating. 61 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,940 2D materials let electrical signals move more efficiently with way less heat. 62 00:04:35,940 --> 00:04:41,500 The Woojee chip packs 5,900 transistors, which is nothing compared to the billions in your phone. 63 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:45,180 But the previous world record for this type of 2D chip was, 64 00:04:45,220 --> 00:04:48,620 115. So they just 50X the technology. 65 00:04:48,620 --> 00:04:54,340 Shanghai Atomic Technology plans to have the production line fully operational by June, 2026 66 00:04:54,340 --> 00:05:00,020 with targets of 90 nanometer equivalent processes this year, 28 nanometer by 2027, 67 00:05:00,020 --> 00:05:03,180 and five or three nanometer by 2028. 68 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:07,100 For reference, TSMC's cutting edge is currently three nanometers. 69 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:11,700 So if China's timeline holds, which is a big if, they could have a fundamentally different approach 70 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:15,980 to chip making that sidesteps the silicon limits that everyone else is running into. 71 00:05:15,980 --> 00:05:18,980 Then again, remember how hype you were for graphing? 72 00:05:18,980 --> 00:05:22,180 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health this week. 73 00:05:22,180 --> 00:05:26,380 It's a non-hippocompliant, non-end-to-end encrypted health assisted. 74 00:05:26,380 --> 00:05:32,180 All you have to do is connect it with B.Well and give Sam Altman access to your complete medical history 75 00:05:32,180 --> 00:05:35,460 and all your device data. In exchange, you get health advice 76 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:38,560 that OpenAI explicitly says is not intended 77 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:43,180 to provide diagnosis or treatment guidance. Meanwhile, Utah just became the first state 78 00:05:43,220 --> 00:05:46,260 to let an AI system legally prescribe medication. 79 00:05:46,260 --> 00:05:49,720 For $4 per prescription, Doctronics Chatbot can renew 80 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,780 190 different chronic condition meds. Pharmacists are thrilled. 81 00:05:53,780 --> 00:05:59,540 One called it a complicated and unnecessary solution since pharmacists could just reduce scripts themselves. 82 00:05:59,540 --> 00:06:03,980 Another said it's insulting professionally that the state trusts a computer more than me. 83 00:06:03,980 --> 00:06:08,100 While that sounds bad, according to Doctronics own non-pure reviewed studied, 84 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:12,340 their AI matches real doctors diagnoses 81% of the time. 85 00:06:12,340 --> 00:06:15,400 So only one in five of you might have a problem. 86 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,740 Pretty good for our audience, honestly. Google announced Gmail's quote unquote 87 00:06:19,740 --> 00:06:24,420 biggest update in 20 years and surprise, it's all AI. 88 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:27,700 Front and center is AI overviews in email search. 89 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:30,980 Remember how hard it was to hit control F or use the search bar? 90 00:06:30,980 --> 00:06:34,140 Now you can finally give your exhausted pinky finger a break. 91 00:06:34,140 --> 00:06:37,220 All you have to do is let Google read all of your emails 92 00:06:37,220 --> 00:06:40,820 and then you can ask Gemini, who have I told you that I have a girlfriend up in Canada? 93 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:44,940 And Gemini will dig through your inbox and let you know all the people you've lied to in your life. 94 00:06:44,940 --> 00:06:50,580 There's also a new AI inbox to be that prioritizes your to-dos and identifies your VIPs. 95 00:06:50,580 --> 00:06:53,900 If users don't want the service, then they have to opt out of it. 96 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:59,300 Users have to opt out, not in. And if you don't, then Google's gonna read all your emails. 97 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:02,860 I mean, they probably already were, but now they're gonna be weird about it. 98 00:07:02,860 --> 00:07:07,260 Bose is officially letting its sound touch smart speakers reach their end of life 99 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:11,840 and will shut down cloud support this spring. But instead of just bricking them all 100 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,960 like most companies do these days, Bose is releasing the API and documentation. 101 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:20,620 Now developers and enthusiasts can build their own tools and keep the devices useful. 102 00:07:20,620 --> 00:07:24,840 Bose is apparently keeping things like AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth and local app control 103 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:29,520 working as basic features. Please, everyone else, learn from this. 104 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:36,000 It's crazy that Bose looks like an absolute hero for just not bricking something that people have paid for. 105 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,760 We're living in the age of the bare minimum level of decency here, it's so depressing. 106 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:46,040 Thank you, Bose. After several lawsuits, Roblox has decided that child safety is important. 107 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,320 The company announced that they now require facial age verification for users to use chat. 108 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,200 Users have to let the app scan their face, then it'll guess their age 109 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,200 and sort them into discrete age groups to ensure that users are only communicating 110 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,000 with other people their age. Which means teenagers could end up chatting 111 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,160 with Jennifer Aniston, Keanu Reeves, or other time travelers. 112 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,000 Roblox claims that images are deleted immediately after processing. 113 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:15,720 Despite this, both Texas and Louisiana have filed lawsuits over new child safety concerns. 114 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,000 Meanwhile, GitHub is also playing content cop, 115 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,640 but with a lot less explanation. The platform recently banned or suspended 116 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,000 around 80 to 90 repositories from 40 to 50 developers 117 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,000 making mods for adult games and sex toys. Most weren't told what rules they broke. 118 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,640 GitHub updated its acceptable use policy in October to ban sexually themed content, 119 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,680 but hasn't clarified how that applies to code for vibrator plugins. 120 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:45,120 Some accounts were mysteriously reinstated after a journalist started asking questions, 121 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,280 still with no explanation though. Effective developers are now migrating 122 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,680 to alternatives like GitGoon, 123 00:08:51,580 --> 00:08:55,860 which is exactly what it sounds like. And if you don't know, please don't ask 124 00:08:55,860 --> 00:09:00,880 because I can't explain more or YouTube will demonetize us with explanation. 125 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaking of YouTube, please come back to it tomorrow for the last of our five days in a row of CES tech news. 126 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,600 Who knows what kind of crazy shit could happen? I certainly don't and Lord knows 127 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,360 I'm confused and scared as hell. I heard Raleigh will be here though.