WEBVTT 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. 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.840 I'm more machine than man now, twisted and evil. 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 00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:18.400 with a handful of robot cameos. But how about everyone else's bots? 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:23.360 Qualcomm just unveiled a full robotics tech stack, built to power everything from home robots 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:28.560 to industrial machines and of course, humanoids. And were there ever some humanoid bots 00:00:28.560 --> 00:00:32.640 around the CES show floor this year? LG showed off their Coyd home robot 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:37.240 designed to help with household chores. And now it can also recognize faces. 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. 00:00:42.480 --> 00:00:46.920 Stiff that guy. Not to be outdone, Switchbot unveiled Onero H1, 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.840 another robot butler, but this one comes with modular attachments and it's got a bit 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. 00:00:56.680 --> 00:01:00.600 Don't fret, robotics aren't just about replacing a millionaire's human cleaning staff. 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:06.040 They're also about taking over industrial manufacturing. Case in point, Boston Dynamics production ready Atlas 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:10.200 which can now carry heavier components while maintaining balance and is powered 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:15.640 by Google's Gemini AI. This brick house is headed to Hyundai factories for 2028 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. 00:01:22.800 --> 00:01:28.600 Outside CES, robot sports are booming. As CNN notes, humanoid bots racing and playing soccer 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. 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. 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.520 Did you see the Onero H1's physique? I bet that thing can hoop. 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 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. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.960 It actually won an innovation award and although it might just seem like a robot dog 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 00:01:59.860 --> 00:02:03.920 like something out of a skateboard video, you might find yourself saying, screw it, 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 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. 00:02:14.920 --> 00:02:20.080 That's very fancy, but can it climb stairs? Because Roborock's new experimental Soros rover 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.400 certainly can and look at those legs. 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.520 Damn, maybe this thing can fall too. Speaking of stupid sexy robots, 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 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.720 or Bond himself. You remember those little shorts? Wow. 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:39.800 Intel and AMD have been exchanging words this week 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:44.600 after Intel launches Panther Lake chips, the first built on their new 18A process. 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:49.960 One of their execs told PCworld that AMD is selling ancient silicon while we're selling 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:53.780 up-to-date processors specifically designed for the gaming handheld market. 00:02:53.780 --> 00:02:57.660 AMD's Raul Tiku fired back, calling Intel's benchmark comparisons 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. 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 00:03:06.940 --> 00:03:10.400 chiplet architecture, implying it's not purpose built for handhelds 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:15.420 like AMD's Z series. But you know what? That ancient silicon is actually selling. 00:03:15.420 --> 00:03:19.580 AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X, a Zen 3 chip from 2020, 00:03:19.580 --> 00:03:23.420 just outsold every other CPU on Amazon Germany last month. 00:03:23.420 --> 00:03:28.460 Moving nearly 2,000 units. Turns out when DDR4 is half the price of DDR5, 00:03:28.460 --> 00:03:31.620 people are happy to build ancient AM4 systems. 00:03:31.620 --> 00:03:37.160 After taking shots at Intel, AMD climbed into the next-gen AI chip arena with NVIDIA. 00:03:37.160 --> 00:03:40.660 Lisa Sue gave us a glimpse of AMD's MI500 series performance 00:03:40.660 --> 00:03:44.140 claiming a 1,000 times performance uplift 00:03:44.140 --> 00:03:47.540 over their older MI300X. Uh-oh. 00:03:47.540 --> 00:03:51.660 Look out, NVIDIA. AMD is 1,000 times better. Except maybe it's not. 00:03:51.660 --> 00:03:55.660 Those numbers are comparing an eight GPU MI300X node 00:03:55.660 --> 00:04:00.340 to an entire MI500 rack with how many GPUs? 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. 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, 00:04:09.420 --> 00:04:13.620 Saili. The quickest bits are the friends we made along the way. 00:04:13.620 --> 00:04:17.620 Transient, meaningful, and still your friend on Facebook 15 years later. 00:04:17.620 --> 00:04:22.580 Shanghai is gearing up to mass-produced chips made from molybdenum disulfide, 00:04:22.580 --> 00:04:26.540 a 2D material just a few atoms thick. Why does it matter? 00:04:26.540 --> 00:04:31.240 As silicon chips shrink, they hit physical limits that cause energy leakage and overheating. 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:35.940 2D materials let electrical signals move more efficiently with way less heat. 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. 00:04:41.500 --> 00:04:45.180 But the previous world record for this type of 2D chip was, 00:04:45.220 --> 00:04:48.620 115. So they just 50X the technology. 00:04:48.620 --> 00:04:54.340 Shanghai Atomic Technology plans to have the production line fully operational by June, 2026 00:04:54.340 --> 00:05:00.020 with targets of 90 nanometer equivalent processes this year, 28 nanometer by 2027, 00:05:00.020 --> 00:05:03.180 and five or three nanometer by 2028. 00:05:03.180 --> 00:05:07.100 For reference, TSMC's cutting edge is currently three nanometers. 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 00:05:11.700 --> 00:05:15.980 to chip making that sidesteps the silicon limits that everyone else is running into. 00:05:15.980 --> 00:05:18.980 Then again, remember how hype you were for graphing? 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:22.180 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health this week. 00:05:22.180 --> 00:05:26.380 It's a non-hippocompliant, non-end-to-end encrypted health assisted. 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 00:05:32.180 --> 00:05:35.460 and all your device data. In exchange, you get health advice 00:05:35.460 --> 00:05:38.560 that OpenAI explicitly says is not intended 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:43.180 to provide diagnosis or treatment guidance. Meanwhile, Utah just became the first state 00:05:43.220 --> 00:05:46.260 to let an AI system legally prescribe medication. 00:05:46.260 --> 00:05:49.720 For $4 per prescription, Doctronics Chatbot can renew 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.780 190 different chronic condition meds. Pharmacists are thrilled. 00:05:53.780 --> 00:05:59.540 One called it a complicated and unnecessary solution since pharmacists could just reduce scripts themselves. 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:03.980 Another said it's insulting professionally that the state trusts a computer more than me. 00:06:03.980 --> 00:06:08.100 While that sounds bad, according to Doctronics own non-pure reviewed studied, 00:06:08.100 --> 00:06:12.340 their AI matches real doctors diagnoses 81% of the time. 00:06:12.340 --> 00:06:15.400 So only one in five of you might have a problem. 00:06:15.400 --> 00:06:19.740 Pretty good for our audience, honestly. Google announced Gmail's quote unquote 00:06:19.740 --> 00:06:24.420 biggest update in 20 years and surprise, it's all AI. 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:27.700 Front and center is AI overviews in email search. 00:06:27.700 --> 00:06:30.980 Remember how hard it was to hit control F or use the search bar? 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:34.140 Now you can finally give your exhausted pinky finger a break. 00:06:34.140 --> 00:06:37.220 All you have to do is let Google read all of your emails 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? 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. 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. 00:06:50.580 --> 00:06:53.900 If users don't want the service, then they have to opt out of it. 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. 00:06:59.300 --> 00:07:02.860 I mean, they probably already were, but now they're gonna be weird about it. 00:07:02.860 --> 00:07:07.260 Bose is officially letting its sound touch smart speakers reach their end of life 00:07:07.260 --> 00:07:11.840 and will shut down cloud support this spring. But instead of just bricking them all 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:15.960 like most companies do these days, Bose is releasing the API and documentation. 00:07:15.960 --> 00:07:20.620 Now developers and enthusiasts can build their own tools and keep the devices useful. 00:07:20.620 --> 00:07:24.840 Bose is apparently keeping things like AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth and local app control 00:07:24.840 --> 00:07:29.520 working as basic features. Please, everyone else, learn from this. 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. 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. 00:07:40.760 --> 00:07:46.040 Thank you, Bose. After several lawsuits, Roblox has decided that child safety is important. 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:51.320 The company announced that they now require facial age verification for users to use chat. 00:07:51.320 --> 00:07:55.200 Users have to let the app scan their face, then it'll guess their age 00:07:55.200 --> 00:07:59.200 and sort them into discrete age groups to ensure that users are only communicating 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:03.000 with other people their age. Which means teenagers could end up chatting 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:06.160 with Jennifer Aniston, Keanu Reeves, or other time travelers. 00:08:06.200 --> 00:08:10.000 Roblox claims that images are deleted immediately after processing. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:15.720 Despite this, both Texas and Louisiana have filed lawsuits over new child safety concerns. 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:19.000 Meanwhile, GitHub is also playing content cop, 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:23.640 but with a lot less explanation. The platform recently banned or suspended 00:08:23.640 --> 00:08:27.000 around 80 to 90 repositories from 40 to 50 developers 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:32.000 making mods for adult games and sex toys. Most weren't told what rules they broke. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:36.640 GitHub updated its acceptable use policy in October to ban sexually themed content, 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:40.680 but hasn't clarified how that applies to code for vibrator plugins. 00:08:40.680 --> 00:08:45.120 Some accounts were mysteriously reinstated after a journalist started asking questions, 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.280 still with no explanation though. Effective developers are now migrating 00:08:48.280 --> 00:08:50.680 to alternatives like GitGoon, 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 00:08:55.860 --> 00:09:00.880 because I can't explain more or YouTube will demonetize us with explanation. 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. 00:09:05.800 --> 00:09:09.600 Who knows what kind of crazy shit could happen? I certainly don't and Lord knows 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.360 I'm confused and scared as hell. I heard Raleigh will be here though.