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The FTC is open in an investigation into open AI over potential consumer harm.

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But how can it harm consumers when you can't even eat it? I'm Jacob Rush.

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This is TechLinked, and this is a 20-page letter sent to open AI by the FTC,

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requesting documents regarding the company's large language model development

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and training practices, as well as open AI's data security.

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The FTC obviously has a lot of questions about things like March's chat GPT bug

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that revealed users' chat and payment information and how open AI

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refined its models to prevent chat GPT from hallucinating and making up facts.

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On top of all that, the FTC also intends to investigate

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if Sam Altman may have raised his incredibly popular AI child on private information.

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And they're not the only ones in legal trouble for data collection. A class action lawsuit has been filed against Google for allegedly stealing data

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to train their chatbot Bard, filed by the same law firm

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that filed a similar class action lawsuit against open AI last month.

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This newer lawsuit claims Google has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by Americans.

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If true, this will be the most brazen American theft since Nick Cage

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sold the Declaration of Independence. My favorite documentary.

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Can you even believe that they kept the camera rolling long enough to get the sequel?

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I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence. It's almost as good as a documentary where he fights animatronics.

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LG Electronics is planning to offer a subscription-based home-as-a-service platform

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for its appliances. Want seasonal DLC for your dishwasher?

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Want an AI assistant for your oven? Want unlockable premium content on your fridge?

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No? Well, that's too bad. The motivation for the change was, of course, money.

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You see, LG realized that tragically, the average household will buy at most

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one $4,000 premium smart fridge every decade.

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But they would strongly prefer that you simply paid them forever instead.

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LG outlined its goal to increase its annual income from $51 billion to $78 billion

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over the next six and a half years. An increase of 53% through these kinds of subscriptions.

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To do this, they plan to spend $39.5 billion on research and development.

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It's not like half of what you want to make. That doesn't seem right.

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I don't know if the math works out there. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I know it's over time.

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It's worth noting that last year LG had its highest revenue ever.

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But alas, executive want number go up.

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I would hope that consumers would put their foot down and refuse to engage with

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this obvious money grab, but you just know there's a bunch of whales that are

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going to blow thousands of dollars on microwave transactions.

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Man, I can't wait to get the freaking red microwave cosmetic skin.

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The Perseverance rover has found signs of organic matter on Mars,

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according to a study published in Nature. Organic matter in this case is molecules containing carbon bonded to hydrogen

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or other carbon atoms, not evidence that there used to be Martians growing

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artisanal farm-to-table produce. A team on Earth was able to find the matter using an instrument on the rover

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called scanning habitable environments with ramen and luminescence for

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organics and chemicals or Sherlock to its friends and sexual conquests.

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Using Sherlock, researchers looked at 10 locations in the massive Jezero crater

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and found organic compounds at all 10. Now, organic compounds are the building blocks of life,

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but this doesn't mean there are aliens on Mars. Especially since everyone knows they left years ago to abduct transients

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under orders from Bigfoot. What you're saying is no f***ing Sherlock.

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Correct. To determine the origin of the compounds and whether they are evidence

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that Mars once sustained life, they need to be brought to Earth

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via the Mars return mission, but that might be difficult because the U.S. Senate just slashed the mission's budget due to ballooning costs.

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And I have to say how disheartening it is to learn that Bigfoot has infiltrated the U.S. government.

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How can you not see that? He's a very, very large creature and full of just covered in hair.

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How can you not tell? Wake up, sheeple!

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Quick bits are like the little forehead kisses your mom used to give you.

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Except now, you're grown up and you're receiving them from a large, bearded man.

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I like to think it's more special. ASUS has confirmed that the ROG Ally's SD card reader

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can malfunction under certain thermal stress conditions.

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This issue has been a big deal recently due to the popularity of the handheld PC.

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Fortunately, ASUS said they will be releasing an update to help mitigate the issue.

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But it may have the side effect of increasing fan noise, something that is only ever good if you're a live band.

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And I'm not a live band, ASUS. I'm a person. Why can't you see me for who I am?

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Google has launched public testing of Notebook LM, previously known as Project Tailwind,

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which is probably why its logo looks like a stylized cartoon fart.

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Just like that. It's essentially a mini-AI assistant trained on your own documents.

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According to Google, a med student could upload neuroscience articles

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and ask Notebook LM to create a glossary of key terms related to dopamine,

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which has got to suck for all the residents who just graduated. Can you imagine that?

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What am I going to do with all these notes I just made?

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Oh! Currently, Notebook LM is available only for Google Docs and only in the United States,

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because the rest of the world has sealed America behind an airtight glass dome.

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I'm sorry if this is how you found out. You'll never be able to see your girlfriend that lives in Canada that you totally made up.

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IE,

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has released a new standard for a light-based communication network, i.e. Li-Fi.

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It's like Wi-Fi, but it's made of lies. If by lies, you mean photons, and I do.

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The idea of Li-Fi has been around for years and could increase data transfer speeds up to 100% over existing Wi-Fi,

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but it's been difficult to implement. Hopefully, one day, our children will be able to blind pilots with a single laser

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carrying an AI upscaled 4K 14 Gigabyte copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special.

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That's what the pilots will sound like when they crash to their deaths.

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The CEO of TinyBuild, the studio that publishes Hello Neighbor,

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a game about spying on people, indicated that he might possibly be spying on his employees, maybe.

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But don't worry, it's for their own good. At a conference, he described how TinyBuild uses AI to monitor its workers for burnout,

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which he himself called bizarrely black mirror-y.

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Apparently, it involves identifying workers that use the words

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I and me too often and talk a lot in meetings and then firing them.

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But the CEO has since said this was all purely hypothetical,

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so just forget about what you heard and start using the Royal Wii at staff meetings.

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I think we need more breaks. We have been working too hard.

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And Ubisoft has announced a collaboration with haptic skin suitmaker,

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Owo, Owo, I don't know how to pronounce it, for the upcoming Assassin's Creed Mirage.

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The product page for the Assassin's Creed Mirage edition haptic gaming system

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promises you will be Basim, the protagonist of the game.

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And I believe Owo, based on the library of simulated sensations advertised on their site,

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including light abdominal wound, severe abdominal wound, being shot,

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and being shot, but with an exit wound.

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You know, when I think of the fun parts of gaming, I always think of the grievous injuries my character suffers.

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Why not simulate something enjoyable, like a pat on the back,

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or my dad saying he's proud of me? Unrealistic.

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I haven't had milk for years. But I'll be proud of you if you come back on Monday for more tech length.

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Of course, I'm always proud of you, but I'm just less proud of you when you disappoint me.

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So don't.