WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.620 One does not simply learn of the tech news. 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. 00:00:12.900 --> 00:00:19.340 Google is testing out an experimental new AI-powered browser called Disco Baby. 00:00:19.340 --> 00:00:23.420 Baby isn't part of the name. Disco Stu is gonna love this, man. 00:00:23.420 --> 00:00:26.420 Disco aims to retool how you browse 00:00:26.420 --> 00:00:33.080 by turning your messy stack of open tabs into interactive, task-focused mini apps called GenTabs, 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 00:00:39.300 --> 00:00:44.260 and have some free time to doomscroll Instagram. It's launching as a Google Labs experiment 00:00:44.260 --> 00:00:47.500 with a macOS waitlist, but Google says insights 00:00:47.500 --> 00:00:53.140 from the experiment could eventually roll into products like Chrome, because of course it will. 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 00:00:58.900 --> 00:01:03.140 named after a dead music genre? Who said Disco's dead? 00:01:03.140 --> 00:01:07.300 Who said it? I think everybody. Open AI certainly wants to prove that rumors 00:01:07.300 --> 00:01:11.580 of their death have been exaggerated. Looking to reclaim their edge in the AI market 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, 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:24.700 its most capable model series yet. Apparently, GPT 5.2 shows strong benchmark gains 00:01:24.700 --> 00:01:30.300 against GPT 5.1 and human experts and is currently beating Gemini 3 in web dev 00:01:30.300 --> 00:01:33.860 on LLM arena while losing in other areas. 00:01:33.860 --> 00:01:37.140 But beware, Open AI admitted that its AI models 00:01:37.140 --> 00:01:40.980 are getting so good at coding tasks that they could help build zero-day exploits 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:44.700 or assist in sophisticated hacks. It's so dangerous. 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:49.820 They're working with outside security experts, including a new advisory group and creating special programs 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. 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:59.080 It's probably fine. Disney fired a cease and desist at Google on Wednesday night, 00:01:59.080 --> 00:02:02.640 accusing it of copyright infringement on a massive scale 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.800 over the tech giants use of Disney IP for AI training 00:02:05.800 --> 00:02:09.080 and slop generation. Despite what a Google spokesperson called 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.280 a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship 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, 00:02:17.240 --> 00:02:20.400 they turned around, saw Open AI and were like, 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. 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.760 Disney wait, Disney wait, I still love you. 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:31.160 What are you, Google? I'm Google. 00:02:32.760 --> 00:02:36.000 It's over, Google. No. You son of a bitch. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.280 Disney is putting about a billion dollars into Open AI 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:43.000 and officially allowing more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:49.800 and Star Wars characters to be generated in the Sora Slop app, starting in early 2026. 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:53.560 Okay, so what exactly is Disney getting out of this deal? 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.400 Well, they're getting free chat GPT subscriptions for its workforce, integration with its products. 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.960 And if we're lucky, they may even show fan made AI shorts 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:04.160 on Disney plus. 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:12.080 Both companies stress responsible AI use and creator protections and their deal deliberately 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.720 excludes real actors voices or likenesses from being used, 00:03:15.720 --> 00:03:19.360 even though those absolutely are already have been trained 00:03:19.640 --> 00:03:24.320 and you can probably do that anyway. While Disney CEO Bob Iger assures folks 00:03:24.320 --> 00:03:28.240 that the deal doesn't threaten creatives, film industry folks see it as a moment 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:35.000 that reshapes how entertainment companies interact with AI licensing and copyright issues and creative labor 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:41.160 with Wired saying this deal redefines the AI copyright war, allowing me to say 00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:45.720 in a Yoda voice, begun to copyright wars half. 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? 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:53.760 I think he could have got him. 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, 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.520 reversing course after years of only allowing China 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:09.360 to buy cut down H20 chips. In return for allowing this, 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.960 the White House will take a 25% cut of H200 sales, 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, 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. 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:29.160 The thinking seems to be that, sure, China will get more powerful AI chips, 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, 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.760 not the flagship B200. Plus allowing NVIDIA to sell a lot of very expensive GPUs 00:04:39.760 --> 00:04:44.760 will help fund their R&D, the richest company in the world. 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:48.360 They don't have five trillion, it's a drop in the bucket. 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:53.800 Sure, why not? Experts say the whole setup is legally and procedurally weird. 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:58.320 And then there's the question of whether China even wants their companies buying American chips, 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:01.960 following conflicting reports on the matter. But NVIDIA is reportedly looking 00:05:01.960 --> 00:05:06.440 at ramping up H200 production regardless. Meanwhile, with the memory supply chain 00:05:06.440 --> 00:05:10.580 already stretched thin, memory maker SK Heineck says it's slowing down 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. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:24.440 Regular desktop memory, still screwed though. Well, there's always paper and pens. 00:05:24.440 --> 00:05:28.040 You can even use a fancy one like our sponsor, Gollum Impression. 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... 00:05:34.400 --> 00:05:38.560 Wicked Trixie Falls. I can't do a Gollum Impression. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:41.520 I'm sorry, they wrote, you believed in me too much. 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:46.160 I don't believe in you. Handheld company Ionio has shown off 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:49.920 its first smartphone, the Ionio Pocket Play. 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. 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.520 The play's screen slides up to reveal a full set of physical controls. 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:02.560 D-pad, ABXY buttons, shoulder buttons, 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.680 and dual smart touch pads. I mean, you might have a nice set of thumbs, 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:09.700 but you'd probably rather see the game than... 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 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:19.900 via an upcoming Kickstarter. So details like the processor, battery, and cameras 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, 00:06:24.900 --> 00:06:29.060 it's just like, eep, hello? Fortnite is officially back on the Google Play Store 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. 00:06:34.620 --> 00:06:38.620 The game's return is due to Google recently settling with Epic, 00:06:38.620 --> 00:06:42.340 after Google's last legal appeal was denied in July. 00:06:42.340 --> 00:06:47.900 Epic's Tim Sweeney must be flying high, except that before anyone declared Epic 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. 00:06:53.460 --> 00:06:57.660 It does bleed. An appeals court says Apple can still charge commission 00:06:57.660 --> 00:07:00.740 on purchases made outside the App Store, 00:07:00.740 --> 00:07:04.180 just not as much or as freely as before. 00:07:04.180 --> 00:07:07.780 Whether all of this legal mudslinging was worth it in the end could be debated, 00:07:08.020 --> 00:07:12.020 but hey, Tim Sweeney says he's happy. And that's what it's all about. 00:07:12.020 --> 00:07:15.380 That's why I get up in the morning. Trump seems to be pretty serious 00:07:15.380 --> 00:07:18.540 about the whole one national AI law thing. 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:23.420 A new executive order could potentially block states from enforcing their own AI rules, 00:07:23.420 --> 00:07:26.540 introducing plans for a new litigation task force 00:07:26.540 --> 00:07:30.300 whose job is to review any AI laws made at a state level 00:07:30.300 --> 00:07:36.700 and change the one they don't like. Once again, normal, and totally fine. 00:07:36.740 --> 00:07:39.940 This probably doesn't bode too well for New York, 00:07:39.940 --> 00:07:44.300 which just passed a new AI disclosure and posthumous likeness law 00:07:44.300 --> 00:07:49.900 that will allow family members the choice over having their deceased relatives in AI videos. 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 00:07:54.180 --> 00:07:59.980 in an AI slop video. Very cool. A startup calling itself Operation Bluebird 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:05.260 wants to bring back Twitter, arguing that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the name 00:08:05.260 --> 00:08:09.340 and poor Bluebird when he rebranded everything to X. 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, 00:08:14.900 --> 00:08:18.620 promising return to the proverbial nest, so to speak. 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 00:08:25.060 --> 00:08:31.540 the greatest brand resurrection in tech history or it'll be another influencer buys Enron situation. 00:08:31.540 --> 00:08:35.420 The bird may fly again or this could be how we finally find out 00:08:35.420 --> 00:08:40.660 that birds aren't real. Claire obscure Expedition 33 one game of the year 00:08:40.660 --> 00:08:44.820 and a bunch more of the 2025 game awards last night, 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, 00:08:49.500 --> 00:08:52.540 right? Especially when a three minute trailer 00:08:52.540 --> 00:08:56.780 reportedly costs over a million dollars, which explains why a few trailers, 00:08:56.780 --> 00:09:00.660 like the one for the new Street Fighter movie were under a minute long. 00:09:00.660 --> 00:09:05.060 Honestly, they could have also shortened the teaser for Star Wars, Fate of the Old Republic, 00:09:05.060 --> 00:09:08.780 a spiritual successor to Kotor from the originals director, Casey Hudson. 00:09:08.780 --> 00:09:12.100 And I wouldn't have been upset because they literally just started working on it 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:14.820 and it won't be out for like five years minimum. 00:09:16.340 --> 00:09:20.100 Celebrate brand. Star Wars galactic racer seems cool though. 00:09:20.100 --> 00:09:24.860 Hopefully there's more pods involved. Baldur's Gate three developers, Larian Studios, 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:29.060 returned to the Divinity franchise with a very not safe for work trailer, 00:09:29.060 --> 00:09:32.260 which is very hype, but good God. 00:09:32.260 --> 00:09:35.500 That trailer for control resonant? Hello? 00:09:35.500 --> 00:09:41.540 Ring ring, Remedy Entertainment? Can I give you the most money I can right now? 00:09:41.540 --> 00:09:46.620 Oh, it's so guys. There were a lot more trailers, obviously, 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. 00:09:51.300 --> 00:09:55.700 Lint? Which is probably why they're not working too well. 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. 00:10:01.660 --> 00:10:04.860 For Gondor! There, you like that? 00:10:04.860 --> 00:10:05.700 Yeah.