1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,620 One does not simply learn of the tech news. 2 00:00:03,620 --> 00:00:11,460 It is guarded by unseen forces. Yet, as your host, I will venture where others would not. 3 00:00:12,900 --> 00:00:19,340 Google is testing out an experimental new AI-powered browser called Disco Baby. 4 00:00:19,340 --> 00:00:23,420 Baby isn't part of the name. Disco Stu is gonna love this, man. 5 00:00:23,420 --> 00:00:26,420 Disco aims to retool how you browse 6 00:00:26,420 --> 00:00:33,080 by turning your messy stack of open tabs into interactive, task-focused mini apps called GenTabs, 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:39,300 powered by Google's latest Gemini 3 model, to complete jobs for you so you can stop staring at a screen 8 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:44,260 and have some free time to doomscroll Instagram. It's launching as a Google Labs experiment 9 00:00:44,260 --> 00:00:47,500 with a macOS waitlist, but Google says insights 10 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:53,140 from the experiment could eventually roll into products like Chrome, because of course it will. 11 00:00:53,140 --> 00:00:58,900 What, Google's not gonna force AI on the majority of users and launch a completely separate AI web browser 12 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:03,140 named after a dead music genre? Who said Disco's dead? 13 00:01:03,140 --> 00:01:07,300 Who said it? I think everybody. Open AI certainly wants to prove that rumors 14 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:11,580 of their death have been exaggerated. Looking to reclaim their edge in the AI market 15 00:01:11,580 --> 00:01:18,700 after Google's Gemini 3 reportedly made them declare a code red, the company has released GPT 5.2, 16 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:24,700 its most capable model series yet. Apparently, GPT 5.2 shows strong benchmark gains 17 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:30,300 against GPT 5.1 and human experts and is currently beating Gemini 3 in web dev 18 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:33,860 on LLM arena while losing in other areas. 19 00:01:33,860 --> 00:01:37,140 But beware, Open AI admitted that its AI models 20 00:01:37,140 --> 00:01:40,980 are getting so good at coding tasks that they could help build zero-day exploits 21 00:01:40,980 --> 00:01:44,700 or assist in sophisticated hacks. It's so dangerous. 22 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:49,820 They're working with outside security experts, including a new advisory group and creating special programs 23 00:01:49,820 --> 00:01:54,920 so cyber defense pros can use advanced model features responsibly, but regular people can also use it too. 24 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,080 It's probably fine. Disney fired a cease and desist at Google on Wednesday night, 25 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,640 accusing it of copyright infringement on a massive scale 26 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,800 over the tech giants use of Disney IP for AI training 27 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,080 and slop generation. Despite what a Google spokesperson called 28 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,280 a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship 29 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:17,240 with Disney, it appears the house of mouse is moving on because like an X on the rebound, 30 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,400 they turned around, saw Open AI and were like, 31 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,520 well, let's strike a three-year deal that's both a licensing partnership and a big investment. 32 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,760 Disney wait, Disney wait, I still love you. 33 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,160 What are you, Google? I'm Google. 34 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,000 It's over, Google. No. You son of a bitch. 35 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,280 Disney is putting about a billion dollars into Open AI 36 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,000 and officially allowing more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar 37 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,800 and Star Wars characters to be generated in the Sora Slop app, starting in early 2026. 38 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,560 Okay, so what exactly is Disney getting out of this deal? 39 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:58,400 Well, they're getting free chat GPT subscriptions for its workforce, integration with its products. 40 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,960 And if we're lucky, they may even show fan made AI shorts 41 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,160 on Disney plus. 42 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:12,080 Both companies stress responsible AI use and creator protections and their deal deliberately 43 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,720 excludes real actors voices or likenesses from being used, 44 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,360 even though those absolutely are already have been trained 45 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:24,320 and you can probably do that anyway. While Disney CEO Bob Iger assures folks 46 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,240 that the deal doesn't threaten creatives, film industry folks see it as a moment 47 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:35,000 that reshapes how entertainment companies interact with AI licensing and copyright issues and creative labor 48 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:41,160 with Wired saying this deal redefines the AI copyright war, allowing me to say 49 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,720 in a Yoda voice, begun to copyright wars half. 50 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:52,360 I mean, they already began, but now it's getting real. Hey Riley, why do you think Yoda stopped fighting Palpatine? 51 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:53,760 I think he could have got him. 52 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:02,080 What happened there? The US government has approved the sale of NVIDIA's H200 AI chips to Chinese companies, 53 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,520 reversing course after years of only allowing China 54 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,360 to buy cut down H20 chips. In return for allowing this, 55 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,960 the White House will take a 25% cut of H200 sales, 56 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,280 a very normal and not mafia like thing to do at all. And if anyone says different, 57 00:04:18,280 --> 00:04:24,800 I know some real nice fishes who'd love to meet you. They need a sleeping partner, which is a thing. 58 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,160 The thinking seems to be that, sure, China will get more powerful AI chips, 59 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,160 which could give them a boost in the AI race, but they're still last gen H200 chips, 60 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:39,760 not the flagship B200. Plus allowing NVIDIA to sell a lot of very expensive GPUs 61 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,760 will help fund their R&D, the richest company in the world. 62 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:48,360 They don't have five trillion, it's a drop in the bucket. 63 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:53,800 Sure, why not? Experts say the whole setup is legally and procedurally weird. 64 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:58,320 And then there's the question of whether China even wants their companies buying American chips, 65 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,960 following conflicting reports on the matter. But NVIDIA is reportedly looking 66 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:06,440 at ramping up H200 production regardless. Meanwhile, with the memory supply chain 67 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,580 already stretched thin, memory maker SK Heineck says it's slowing down 68 00:05:10,580 --> 00:05:18,200 its production of next gen HBM4 to focus on the HBM3e used in H200 and B200 chips. 69 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:24,440 Regular desktop memory, still screwed though. Well, there's always paper and pens. 70 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,040 You can even use a fancy one like our sponsor, Gollum Impression. 71 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:34,400 We want them, we needs them, must have the quick bits. They stole it from us, those sneaky little hobbits is... 72 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,560 Wicked Trixie Falls. I can't do a Gollum Impression. 73 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,520 I'm sorry, they wrote, you believed in me too much. 74 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,160 I don't believe in you. Handheld company Ionio has shown off 75 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,920 its first smartphone, the Ionio Pocket Play. 76 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:55,480 Perhaps an homage to the old Sony Xperia Play, because of course this thing's also a gaming handheld. 77 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,520 The play's screen slides up to reveal a full set of physical controls. 78 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,560 D-pad, ABXY buttons, shoulder buttons, 79 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:06,680 and dual smart touch pads. I mean, you might have a nice set of thumbs, 80 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,700 but you'd probably rather see the game than... 81 00:06:09,700 --> 00:06:15,300 The Pocket Play's specs, price, and release timing are still unannounced, as Ionio is gauging interest 82 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:19,900 via an upcoming Kickstarter. So details like the processor, battery, and cameras 83 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:24,900 are still under wraps. They're teasing us. Aw, it's just shy, it doesn't wanna show, 84 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:29,060 it's just like, eep, hello? Fortnite is officially back on the Google Play Store 85 00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:34,620 in the US after a five year absence caused by all the stuff I talked about in this video. 86 00:06:34,620 --> 00:06:38,620 The game's return is due to Google recently settling with Epic, 87 00:06:38,620 --> 00:06:42,340 after Google's last legal appeal was denied in July. 88 00:06:42,340 --> 00:06:47,900 Epic's Tim Sweeney must be flying high, except that before anyone declared Epic 89 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:53,460 the final boss of antitrust lawsuits, Apple went ahead and scored a partial win of its own. 90 00:06:53,460 --> 00:06:57,660 It does bleed. An appeals court says Apple can still charge commission 91 00:06:57,660 --> 00:07:00,740 on purchases made outside the App Store, 92 00:07:00,740 --> 00:07:04,180 just not as much or as freely as before. 93 00:07:04,180 --> 00:07:07,780 Whether all of this legal mudslinging was worth it in the end could be debated, 94 00:07:08,020 --> 00:07:12,020 but hey, Tim Sweeney says he's happy. And that's what it's all about. 95 00:07:12,020 --> 00:07:15,380 That's why I get up in the morning. Trump seems to be pretty serious 96 00:07:15,380 --> 00:07:18,540 about the whole one national AI law thing. 97 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:23,420 A new executive order could potentially block states from enforcing their own AI rules, 98 00:07:23,420 --> 00:07:26,540 introducing plans for a new litigation task force 99 00:07:26,540 --> 00:07:30,300 whose job is to review any AI laws made at a state level 100 00:07:30,300 --> 00:07:36,700 and change the one they don't like. Once again, normal, and totally fine. 101 00:07:36,740 --> 00:07:39,940 This probably doesn't bode too well for New York, 102 00:07:39,940 --> 00:07:44,300 which just passed a new AI disclosure and posthumous likeness law 103 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:49,900 that will allow family members the choice over having their deceased relatives in AI videos. 104 00:07:49,900 --> 00:07:54,180 Now it looks like the government will have to decide whether you get to see your dead grandma 105 00:07:54,180 --> 00:07:59,980 in an AI slop video. Very cool. A startup calling itself Operation Bluebird 106 00:07:59,980 --> 00:08:05,260 wants to bring back Twitter, arguing that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the name 107 00:08:05,260 --> 00:08:09,340 and poor Bluebird when he rebranded everything to X. 108 00:08:09,340 --> 00:08:14,900 They've filed to claim the trademarks and plan to launch Twitter.new as early as next year, 109 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:18,620 promising return to the proverbial nest, so to speak. 110 00:08:19,820 --> 00:08:25,060 I can't wait for legal experts to weigh in on this situation because it's either going to be 111 00:08:25,060 --> 00:08:31,540 the greatest brand resurrection in tech history or it'll be another influencer buys Enron situation. 112 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:35,420 The bird may fly again or this could be how we finally find out 113 00:08:35,420 --> 00:08:40,660 that birds aren't real. Claire obscure Expedition 33 one game of the year 114 00:08:40,660 --> 00:08:44,820 and a bunch more of the 2025 game awards last night, 115 00:08:44,820 --> 00:08:49,500 which is great and much deserved, but come on. We were all really watching for the new launch trailers, 116 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,540 right? Especially when a three minute trailer 117 00:08:52,540 --> 00:08:56,780 reportedly costs over a million dollars, which explains why a few trailers, 118 00:08:56,780 --> 00:09:00,660 like the one for the new Street Fighter movie were under a minute long. 119 00:09:00,660 --> 00:09:05,060 Honestly, they could have also shortened the teaser for Star Wars, Fate of the Old Republic, 120 00:09:05,060 --> 00:09:08,780 a spiritual successor to Kotor from the originals director, Casey Hudson. 121 00:09:08,780 --> 00:09:12,100 And I wouldn't have been upset because they literally just started working on it 122 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:14,820 and it won't be out for like five years minimum. 123 00:09:16,340 --> 00:09:20,100 Celebrate brand. Star Wars galactic racer seems cool though. 124 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:24,860 Hopefully there's more pods involved. Baldur's Gate three developers, Larian Studios, 125 00:09:24,860 --> 00:09:29,060 returned to the Divinity franchise with a very not safe for work trailer, 126 00:09:29,060 --> 00:09:32,260 which is very hype, but good God. 127 00:09:32,260 --> 00:09:35,500 That trailer for control resonant? Hello? 128 00:09:35,500 --> 00:09:41,540 Ring ring, Remedy Entertainment? Can I give you the most money I can right now? 129 00:09:41,540 --> 00:09:46,620 Oh, it's so guys. There were a lot more trailers, obviously, 130 00:09:46,620 --> 00:09:51,300 that we didn't talk about. Well, what channel do you think this is? The Beacons of Gondor are Lint. 131 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:55,700 Lint? Which is probably why they're not working too well. 132 00:09:55,700 --> 00:10:00,660 But regardless, we're gonna use them to call you back for more tech news on Monday. 133 00:10:01,660 --> 00:10:04,860 For Gondor! There, you like that? 134 00:10:04,860 --> 00:10:05,700 Yeah.