1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,300 Quick, quick, drop whatever you're doing, and wha- 2 00:00:03,300 --> 00:00:10,620 Intel seems to have implicitly confirmed rumors that they'll release a more powerful 3 00:00:10,620 --> 00:00:16,560 ARK Battle Mage GPU if some tweets are anything to go by, and when are they not? 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:21,860 In response to multiple fans pleading for an ARK B770, which would sit above the existing 5 00:00:21,860 --> 00:00:27,660 B570 and B580 in Intel's naming scheme, the official Intel Twitter account replied with 6 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:35,060 various versions of Stay Tuned, with an eyes emoji, which in influencer means Watch This 7 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:41,340 Space. Sparkles, despite not having officially confirmed the existence of the B770, Intel said another 8 00:00:41,340 --> 00:00:47,020 fan who wants one is a gamer with great taste, and called the card, which so far only exists 9 00:00:47,020 --> 00:00:52,400 in liminal space, a solid pick, which is like me congratulating you on picking me for your 10 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,820 baseball team. Yeah, I might show up, but my schedule's all up in the air right now. 11 00:00:56,820 --> 00:01:02,940 Now Intel said the same thing to the one reply guy or gal who asked about a B780, 12 00:01:02,940 --> 00:01:07,300 which makes me think either they're also making that card, or this account is like 13 00:01:07,300 --> 00:01:12,820 an AI that will also tell you to stay tuned when you ask for an Intel ARK B-LT cheese 14 00:01:12,820 --> 00:01:17,280 sandwich. But really, who knows what we're gonna see at Computex next week. 15 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:22,260 There have been rumors about a 24 gig version of the ARK B580, which is probably actually 16 00:01:22,260 --> 00:01:28,300 a pro card. But another fresh rumor this week indicates a third party card manufacturer is prepping 17 00:01:28,300 --> 00:01:34,020 a dual GPU graphics card with two B580 chips on a single board. 18 00:01:34,020 --> 00:01:38,780 Maybe they'll be stacked, like a cheese sandwich. 19 00:01:38,780 --> 00:01:44,900 Stay tuned. Google is testing out adding an AI mode button to the main search page. 20 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:49,300 Users have reported seeing it replace the I'm feeling lucky button that takes you directly 21 00:01:49,300 --> 00:01:53,660 to these top result of your search, while others report seeing it as an additional button 22 00:01:53,660 --> 00:02:00,460 in the search bar. So to make sure I understand, Google forced AI overviews into your normal searches and 23 00:02:00,460 --> 00:02:05,620 made you first perform an AI enabled search before you can even select the option to search 24 00:02:05,620 --> 00:02:11,540 without AI. And instead of making normal web searches more accessible, they're adding an extra button 25 00:02:11,540 --> 00:02:16,660 that injects even more AI that very well might tell you that rocks are edible. 26 00:02:16,660 --> 00:02:19,660 Very cool. That works for human people. We're not being evil. 27 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:26,600 Got it. But you know what? It's okay because Google is offsetting this nonsense with improved spam and scam protections 28 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,780 for Android, which will stop you from disabling Google Play Protect, side loading or granting 29 00:02:31,780 --> 00:02:36,740 extra permissions while on a call, and it'll warn you about scams if you open a banking 30 00:02:36,740 --> 00:02:43,620 app while screen sharing with an unknown contact, which probably should just also not do that. 31 00:02:43,620 --> 00:02:48,820 These add to the existing scam detection tools in calls and messages added this year, which 32 00:02:48,820 --> 00:02:55,380 are entirely processed on device, supposedly, and oh, there's also a new key verifier feature 33 00:02:55,380 --> 00:02:59,900 that will let you confirm the identity of the contact you're talking to using cryptographic 34 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:04,740 keys. Somebody send this to the Department of Defense stat. 35 00:03:04,740 --> 00:03:09,660 Google also showed off and confirmed the new design language that had previously leaked 36 00:03:09,660 --> 00:03:16,220 coming with Android 16 called Material 3 Expressive, which is definitely going to bring in so many 37 00:03:16,220 --> 00:03:21,220 Gen Zers who were like, I thought Android was cringe, but I see myself here. 38 00:03:21,220 --> 00:03:26,020 Color blocks on the Google logo make that a gradient and I'm on board. 39 00:03:26,020 --> 00:03:32,340 Watch this space. House Republicans have slipped language into the proposed budget reconciliation bill that 40 00:03:32,340 --> 00:03:39,020 could ban U.S. states from enforcing any locally passed AI regulations for 10 years. 41 00:03:39,020 --> 00:03:43,620 It's a strange move because the rest of the bill is about completely unrelated stuff like 42 00:03:43,620 --> 00:03:48,700 cuts to Medicaid, but it's not the only wacky AI related bill in the house right now. 43 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:53,940 Senator Tom Cotton introduced his own bill that proposes putting tracking chips in all 44 00:03:53,940 --> 00:04:02,220 high performance AI processors so we can protect children. 45 00:04:02,220 --> 00:04:06,900 This kind of legislation is going to be relevant because the Trump administration just rescinded 46 00:04:07,020 --> 00:04:12,620 Biden's AI diffusion rule, which was horribly named to be fair, that placed strict limits 47 00:04:12,620 --> 00:04:17,940 on U.S. companies shipping AI chips, although China's still a no-go. 48 00:04:17,940 --> 00:04:23,300 The Middle East, however, is fair game, which is why Saudi Arabia's hot new AI company, 49 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:35,300 Humane, with an I in it, is immediately buying $10 billion worth of AMD GPUs and $18,000 50 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:41,460 NVIDIA GPUs to start while the United Arab Emirates wants to buy over a million GPUs. 51 00:04:41,460 --> 00:04:47,660 Okay, hold on there, Sparky. I mean, they're going to need chips to power all of these data centers being built over 52 00:04:47,660 --> 00:04:52,500 there in the desert because according to a recent statement from the U.S. Commerce Department, 53 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:58,540 anyone using Huawei's Ascend AI chips anywhere in the world could be subject to disciplinary 54 00:04:58,540 --> 00:05:03,020 action by the U.S. And also, don't make fun of the tariffs online. 55 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:06,860 It's bad. For the nation's youth? 56 00:05:06,860 --> 00:05:09,900 You know what's good for the youth? Video games, like our sponsor. 57 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:14,780 Okay, you're still watching. That's good. I thought I saw you looking at reels for a second there. 58 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:17,780 Hey! Hey! Eyes up here. 59 00:05:17,780 --> 00:05:23,940 Yesterday, Samsung announced the Galaxy S25 Edge, which does not have a curved edge on 60 00:05:23,940 --> 00:05:27,780 the screen like the discontinued edge phones from Days of Yor. 61 00:05:27,780 --> 00:05:33,820 This edge is just amazingly thin and an amazing example of the exact reasons why everyone 62 00:05:33,820 --> 00:05:38,740 reacted to rumors of ultra-thin phones with...but why? 63 00:05:38,740 --> 00:05:45,900 With a 6.7-inch screen, the S25 Edge is basically an S25 Plus, but worse, while being slightly 64 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:52,500 more expensive at $1,100 U.S. The battery is 1,000 mAh smaller at 3,900. 65 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:57,300 It's got weaker, wired-only charging and no telephoto lens. 66 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:02,340 Even while it's got a 200-megapixel main camera now, it uses the same size sensor as 67 00:06:02,340 --> 00:06:05,900 the 50-megapixel one and the rest of the lineup. 68 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:11,620 On the plus side, though, you won't get bullied for having a phone with a normal thickness. 69 00:06:11,620 --> 00:06:18,220 I don't get it. Nintendo published proper tech specs for the Switch 2, so the digital foundry team at Eurogamer, 70 00:06:18,220 --> 00:06:22,620 who did a lot of Switch 2 hardware sleuthing before the official announcement, dove into 71 00:06:22,620 --> 00:06:28,580 analysis mode. The biggest takeaway is that the Switch 2 has a much larger gap in performance between 72 00:06:28,580 --> 00:06:34,220 handheld and docked mode, probably partially due to the new dock having a fan in it. 73 00:06:34,220 --> 00:06:39,300 So get hyped to play on the TV, but don't be disappointed when you can't see the sweat 74 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:42,460 glistening on your cyborg GF in Cyberpunk. 75 00:06:42,460 --> 00:06:45,700 It wouldn't be a problem with a real girl. 76 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:49,620 You'd see their sweat just fine, and that's just an idea. 77 00:06:49,620 --> 00:06:54,780 Those who bought a lifetime subscription to VPN provider VPNsecure had those subscriptions 78 00:06:54,780 --> 00:06:58,860 cancelled because the company's new owners say they had never heard about it when they 79 00:06:58,860 --> 00:07:02,660 were in the buying process. It's not their fault, nobody told me. 80 00:07:02,660 --> 00:07:08,420 After enduring customer backlash, the new VPNsecure agreed to give the lifetime sub-holders 81 00:07:08,420 --> 00:07:13,420 two free years. So I guess, after that, they'll die. 82 00:07:13,420 --> 00:07:17,740 Thanks! A couple super-quick bits here, because I didn't know where else to put them, HBO 83 00:07:17,860 --> 00:07:22,980 is changing the name of its streaming service back to HBO Max two years after rebranding 84 00:07:22,980 --> 00:07:28,500 as just Max in an effort to signal that it's not just the Sopranos and stuff on there. 85 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:36,900 There's a lot of worse shows, too. And Uber has announced Uber Root Share, route share, whatever you want, which involves drivers 86 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:40,980 following set routes and arriving at stops every 20 minutes. 87 00:07:40,980 --> 00:07:46,380 Yes, it's a bus. This Silicon Valley innovation is relentless. 88 00:07:46,380 --> 00:07:52,620 And scientists at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics in Amsterdam built a robot 89 00:07:52,620 --> 00:07:58,580 powered entirely by air being pushed through tubes, like a wacky inflatable tube man. 90 00:07:58,580 --> 00:08:02,380 But he's alive now, apparently without any programming. 91 00:08:02,380 --> 00:08:08,260 The robot's leg movements begin as a chaotic mess, but then naturally synchronize through 92 00:08:08,260 --> 00:08:13,500 the power of raw physics, unlike other robots which don't involve physics at all. 93 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:18,340 The bot even switches to an alternating limb method in water, wild. 94 00:08:18,340 --> 00:08:22,940 I'm not gonna lie, though. The real reason I included this story is because R's Technica's title and subtitle 95 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:28,580 sounds like a string of creative insults. You're a brainless robot that runs on air. 96 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:31,940 You're a starting gazelle that swims like a dog. 97 00:08:31,940 --> 00:08:35,460 You have an air of stilted vapidity about you. 98 00:08:35,460 --> 00:08:38,700 Big on. Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. 99 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:44,980 Okay, look, how about to make it up to you? You come back here on Friday for more tech news, and we'll call it even, okay? 100 00:08:44,980 --> 00:08:47,380 Don't look away yet.