1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 It's day two of our CES 2025 coverage 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:08,680 and the tech news continues to pour in. It feels neither pity nor shame, 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,520 only a cold compulsion to make AI like its whole thing. 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:18,160 Lenovo showed off the world's first laptop with a camera under the display, 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:23,720 the Yoga Slim 9i, along with the world's first rollable laptop display 6 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:31,000 in the Thinkbook Plus Gen 6 and some of the world's first Snapdragon X-powered mini PCs 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,840 running Windows on ARM. But the biggest world's first to me, 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:42,040 which is what really matters, get your own show, is the world's first SteamOS handheld not made by Valve. 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,920 All of those leaks were surprisingly accurate, but they couldn't have predicted its full name 10 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:51,920 would be the Lenovo Legion Go S8 inch 1 powered by SteamOS 11 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:58,800 because it would be hard to predict someone choosing that. It'll launch in May, starting at 500 bucks 12 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,120 for the version with a last gen Ryzen Z1 Extreme, 13 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,320 but there will actually be a Windows version too, which will launch in January 14 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:11,000 with the newly announced Ryzen Z2 Go for 730 bucks. 15 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,720 But it'll come with three months of PC game pass and what I can only imagine 16 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:21,920 is a desperate bribe from Microsoft. No, all of the gamers, please don't switch to SteamOS. 17 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,240 It can't give you full screen ads like I can. Yeah, that's, we don't want those. 18 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,320 Huh? Both SteamOS and Windows versions of the Legion Go S 19 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:36,000 will have a $600 tier as well with a Ryzen Z2 Go later this year. 20 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:43,240 But if you want the beefiest option, Lenovo did say a proper second gen Lenovo Legion Go non-S 21 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:48,520 is in the works. But that won't run SteamOS, ah, not so fast. 22 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:53,880 Valve took this opportunity to announce that a SteamOS beta will be released this month 23 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:00,360 that anyone can install on other handhelds. Handhelds like the GPD Win 4 maybe, 24 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:05,240 whose website made it sound like another official SteamOS handheld. 25 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:10,200 Until Valve told the Verge, they did not work with GPD on official SteamOS support. 26 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:15,360 I feel like that was given away by the stretched out picture of Kat Mario on the website, 27 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,360 but I've been wrong before. Maybe you can install SteamOS on Acer's Nitro Blaze 28 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,400 and 11 inch handheld that's so massive. 29 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,400 I think the guy in this marketing image is just chuckling at it. 30 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:33,480 Is this a joke? We'll get back to CES news, but first, Meta has announced it's shifting away 31 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,480 from using third party fact-checking services 32 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:42,160 in favor of a community note style model on Facebook, Instagram, and threads. 33 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,960 In a video and blog post, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's new PR chief, Joel Kaplan, 34 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:51,040 said their focus is now on restoring free expression 35 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,800 for no particular current events related reason. So they're also lifting restrictions 36 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:00,320 on discussion of some sensitive topics that would have previously led to moderation. 37 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,960 Interestingly, multiple times Meta's blog post 38 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,080 specifically references rival social media site, X, 39 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:11,320 run by Elon Musk, the guy who was never actually 40 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,800 going to fight Zuck in the ring, but pretending was fun for a while. 41 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,680 I guess Meta's new lax moderation policy also applies to Meta themselves 42 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,240 because they took the liberty of serving an Instagram user 43 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:28,240 with unsettling AI generated images of himself in his feed 44 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,040 after he used a Meta AI tool to edit a selfie. 45 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:37,240 Meta apparently took that to mean he wants to be surprised by a fake image of himself 46 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,840 reflecting on life in an endless maze of mirrors 47 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:44,840 where he's the main focus and he looks thrilled. 48 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,680 Now, back in September, Meta said they're testing serving content 49 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:53,920 in Facebook and Instagram feeds created by their AI just for you, 50 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,680 not of you, which is the issue here. 51 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,680 Meta told 404 media that you can opt out 52 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:04,120 of seeing otherworldly versions of yourself in your feed, 53 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,280 but other platforms are experimenting with similar features. 54 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,480 So you may just have to get used to AI's poking you like a toddler and saying, 55 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:16,480 hey, look, I drew a picture of you. I don't care, where are your parents? 56 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:21,160 Okay, we're coming back to CES news for the quick bits. These ones are a little different, 57 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,360 but hey, that's okay. Yesterday, I told you I'd cover some more 58 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,560 NVIDIA stuff, so here. GeForce Now is officially getting a native app 59 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,480 for the Steam Deck later this year and expanded browser-based support 60 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,600 on various mixed reality headsets too. So I guess Microsoft is right 61 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,160 and all of those are an Xbox. What? 62 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,720 No. What? One thing from the keynote I didn't cover yesterday 63 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:49,280 was Project Digits, a tiny $3,000 desktop computer 64 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:54,600 powered by the company's Blackwell GPU and their 20-core Grace CPU 65 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:00,000 on a pretty standard-looking mobile chip. This is an ARM-based APU 66 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,280 in a Mac mini-looking form factor. Could NVIDIA just leapfrog Qualcomm 67 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:08,680 and start their own ARM PC revolution? Probably not with this. 68 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:14,800 These are meant for researchers and people comfortable plopping another $3,000 PC on top of the first one 69 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,160 to run their AI waifu locally. 70 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,480 Long distance is hard. Speaking of AI companions, 71 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,880 NVIDIA announced that generative AI-powered NPCs 72 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:31,200 called co-playable characters will drop soon in PUBG and Naraka Blade Point 73 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,960 where they'll help you find loot and swear to loyally hold off bad guys 74 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:40,440 so you can run away and heal. If AIs can't love, then what is that? 75 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,000 Oh, you're not a gamer? Don't worry, NVIDIA's Project R2X desktop assistant 76 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,960 is here to answer the question, what if Clippy was hot? 77 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,080 I found a hot AI girl and trapped her in my monitor. 78 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:58,800 Now, because I feel like I'm neglecting them if I don't mention them, there are a butt ton of new laptop models on display at CES, 79 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:01,920 as usual, updated gaming and lifestyle models 80 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:07,240 from ASUS, refreshed elite books and a new Snapdragon X-powered Omni Studio, 81 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:12,040 all in one from HP. MSI had some pretty wild 18 inch gaming laptops 82 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,600 to show off with lots of dragon related influences. 83 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:19,120 It's what the people want. And Acer had a number of notebooks to show off, 84 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:26,160 but not all of them had a chassis made partially out of crushed oyster shells like the Aspire Vero 16. 85 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,240 So that's the one that gets the mention. I don't make the rules. And you know what? 86 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,520 Let's cover Sony's CES announcements, which once again, involves reminding everyone, 87 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,880 they're working on a car with Honda. It's called the Afila. 88 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,520 Do we remember this? Yes. But since it's 2025, 89 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,280 it has to ship with an AI personal agent, of course. 90 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:50,880 What is new is the shipping estimate of 2026 91 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:56,200 and the price. It starts at $89,900. 92 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,560 But, hey, but that comes with a three year subscription 93 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:04,800 to all the AI stuff, which is at least Toyota Corolla's worth. 94 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:09,600 Sony also gave their mysterious next gen XR headset a name, 95 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,520 ZIN with an X. I guess the nicotine pouches aren't big in Japan. 96 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:20,760 But good news, you won't need the headset to enjoy Sony's future immersive entertainment concept, 97 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,200 a box covered in displays and sensory doohickeys 98 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:29,840 that will drop you into the world of the last of us and even let you smell what Ellie smells. 99 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,480 Turns out the clickers are just ripping it all the time. 100 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:37,840 It's mold and gas. It's not good. 101 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,600 And we're gonna let it rip again tomorrow. So come on back for more. 102 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,040 No, it'll be tech news. That's not, we're not ripping. 103 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:46,540 Okay, that's disrespectful.