{"video_id":"fp_EAKEJ1z8y1","title":"Xbox Handheld delayed, Google AI wins/losses, Meta/Anduril collab + more!","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-31T03:04:00.031Z","duration_s":517,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":7.6,"text":"Oh, hey, sorry. I just finished getting the tech news from my tech news guy and now I can give it to you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.16,"end_s":18.18,"text":"From his guy Microsoft has pumped the brakes on development of its handheld Xbox console","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.18,"end_s":24.66,"text":"And is now dedicating more resources towards optimizing Windows 11 for third-party gaming handhelds","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.66,"end_s":29.22,"text":"According to Windows Central's resident sneaky Xbox guy Jez Corden","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.22,"end_s":32.9,"text":"He must have a talent for hiding in vents above boardrooms. 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To be clear We're not talking about Project Kennan, the Xbox edition of an ASUS handheld first leaked by Jez himself After he squeezed his now sweaty body back out of the vents. We're talking about the We're talking about the first-of-its-kind proper Xbox branded handheld console meant to natively run Xbox games Which was supposedly slated for a 2027 release But it makes sense that Microsoft wants to get its Windows 11 house in order first because Steam OS is having what you might call a Verified gamer moment the newest build which officially supports installation on third-party hardware is being installed on desktop PCs by multiple youtubers including random gaming in HD and ETA prime and it's outperforming Windows 11 in many cases Valve has noticeably changed their language recently adding Steam OS compatibility ratings for games to help cover any Device running Steam OS. That's not a Steam Deck for everything else. That's not rated as Steam OS compatible There's the new official GeForce now app for Steam Deck Which apparently runs the service better than previously available alternatives people are getting all hot and steamy over Steam OS So Microsoft has got to do something to draw gamers away Oh, hey, maybe releasing an early version of co-pilot for gaming in the Xbox app on iOS and Android will help So while gaming you can ask the AI on your phone for tips I don't know the damage might be done here There must be some amount of people out there who already think Xbox is owned by Elon Musk Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on the Verges decoder podcast that AI is going to be bigger than the internet Which I think is true, but with the opposite effect see the internet allowed and encouraged Unprecedented human-to-human contact across the globe AI will allow you to completely avoid speaking to another human again ever Something that used to be necessary if you wanted to create a photorealistic short film like this one made by the Wall Street Journal Although it's still a pretty complicated process Which will leave you even less time to interact with other humans Okay, that's not entirely true live translation in smart glasses is real close to letting people have a near real-time Conversation in two separate languages and Gemini can analyze videos in Google Drive now, and that's cool What's not cool is the other Gemini stuff like Gmail AI summaries now Automatically popping up and taking up half your phone screen unless you turn it off and AI Overviews in search still making basic errors like confidently stating it is not the current year that it is I'm not sure if Gemini was involved in Google Maps suddenly marking all of the most used German autobahn routes as closed for a few hours because Google didn't say what happened But what you think Claude for from Anthropic crawled in and wreaked havoc in the Google Maps system for a while That's outlandish great news everyone meta has made amends with founder of Oculus and enjoyer of goatees grown in the Scrotum style Palmer lucky lucky was fired in 2017 But has since regained prominence through his successful military tech company and drill which will now be working with meta on Mixed reality tech for the military Military reality, maybe I don't know and maybe that's because meta CTO and head of reality laps Which is what Oculus became? Apologize to lucky for being rude on Twitter, and that's not really the whole story But it's also not super important meta's involvement here comes after and you real picked up where Microsoft left off after their Holo lens project for the army fizzled out and Bloomberg notes that this all shows how much has changed in Silicon Valley everybody's doing military deals now But pre-2020 the expectation was that big tech wouldn't get involved in military projects But that being taboo led to the founding of a number of relatively new Less scrupulous tech companies who are happy to accept military and sensitive government contracts And many of whose names like Andrew and Palantir are also references to the works of JRR Tolkien who would probably have some choice words for the people associating his name with the industrialization of war Palmer luck he's out here naming his company after the reforged sword of Aragorn and yapping about his dream being to turn Warfighters into techno mansors and the geekiness is kind of charming But it also makes me want to go Tom Bombadil on this guy Please shave and please check out our sponsor It's time for quick bits but first fun fact at some point the never-ending chain of tech news guys passing on the tech news turns In to turtles and honestly I try not to think about that too much the New York Times has made its first AI deal Licensing the use of its content to Amazon to train their in-house AI models and to allow Alexa to include excerpts from and links back to The NYT website the New York Times of course sued open AI in 2023 for training its models On the Times content without a license That's perhaps the most prominent AI copyright case and is still moving through the courts and it all just goes to show You either die before AI scrapes your content for free or live long enough to make a deal for AI to scrape your content for money You are going to die though We already knew that AMD's RX 9060 XT was coming soon with both 8 gig and 16 gig versions But the two variants may have differences in other specs as well depending on the manufacturer Marketing materials from GPU board partner. Yes, Tom. Yes, Tom lists their Gaia 16 Gigabyte version with a 100 megahertz higher base and boost clock So make sure you read the fine print if you're in the GPU market or you could wait until Chinese chipmaker List swan brings its brand new six nanometer GPU, which is apparently targeting our X40 60 level performance To external markets the tariffs will have to be gone by then I think AI hosting platform Hugging face has introduced a humanoid robot called Hope JR Which Hope Jr. I don't know which will cost around 3000 USD and is completely open source so anyone can rebuild or modify it however They like add spider legs, you know, just really this thing up if you want the company also announced a small desktop open-source robot called the Richie Mini Which is a pretty rude thing to name a robot that can only move its head but maybe it's also really good at arguing in bad faith and researchers in Austin, Texas have developed specialized electronic tattoos Super thin sensors you stick around your head that monitor brain activity and eye movement to gauge the wearer's level of mental strain The researchers figure that if workers wear these E face tats their superiors could adjust assignments and Reallocate personnel if the system detects that someone's cognitive burden has reached critical levels that sounds dystopian But I have to admit I love the idea of making face tattoos functional Now you can have a couple tier tattoos under your eye because they tell your boss's computer when you're sad Maybe they light up for the next trial They should give these to real gang members and if they just can't take the stress of living outside the law The mob boss again, let them leave with no issues Hey You're not cut out for this. I'm so you know you can go But oh boy will I have an issue with you if you don't come back here on Friday for more tech news Don't think I won't do anything either. You know why I got this tattoo because I oh what oh it washed off already You didn't want to know anyway"}