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It's day two of our CES 2025 coverage

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and the tech news continues to pour in. It feels neither pity nor shame,

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only a cold compulsion to make AI like its whole thing.

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Lenovo showed off the world's first laptop with a camera under the display,

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the Yoga Slim 9i, along with the world's first rollable laptop display

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in the Thinkbook Plus Gen 6 and some of the world's first Snapdragon X-powered mini PCs

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running Windows on ARM. But the biggest world's first to me,

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which is what really matters, get your own show, is the world's first SteamOS handheld not made by Valve.

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All of those leaks were surprisingly accurate, but they couldn't have predicted its full name

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would be the Lenovo Legion Go S8 inch 1 powered by SteamOS

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because it would be hard to predict someone choosing that. It'll launch in May, starting at 500 bucks

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for the version with a last gen Ryzen Z1 Extreme,

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but there will actually be a Windows version too, which will launch in January

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with the newly announced Ryzen Z2 Go for 730 bucks.

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But it'll come with three months of PC game pass and what I can only imagine

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is a desperate bribe from Microsoft. No, all of the gamers, please don't switch to SteamOS.

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It can't give you full screen ads like I can. Yeah, that's, we don't want those.

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Huh? Both SteamOS and Windows versions of the Legion Go S

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will have a $600 tier as well with a Ryzen Z2 Go later this year.

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But if you want the beefiest option, Lenovo did say a proper second gen Lenovo Legion Go non-S

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is in the works. But that won't run SteamOS, ah, not so fast.

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Valve took this opportunity to announce that a SteamOS beta will be released this month

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that anyone can install on other handhelds. Handhelds like the GPD Win 4 maybe,

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whose website made it sound like another official SteamOS handheld.

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Until Valve told the Verge, they did not work with GPD on official SteamOS support.

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I feel like that was given away by the stretched out picture of Kat Mario on the website,

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but I've been wrong before. Maybe you can install SteamOS on Acer's Nitro Blaze

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and 11 inch handheld that's so massive.

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I think the guy in this marketing image is just chuckling at it.

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Is this a joke? We'll get back to CES news, but first, Meta has announced it's shifting away

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from using third party fact-checking services

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in favor of a community note style model on Facebook, Instagram, and threads.

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In a video and blog post, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's new PR chief, Joel Kaplan,

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said their focus is now on restoring free expression

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for no particular current events related reason. So they're also lifting restrictions

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on discussion of some sensitive topics that would have previously led to moderation.

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Interestingly, multiple times Meta's blog post

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specifically references rival social media site, X,

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run by Elon Musk, the guy who was never actually

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going to fight Zuck in the ring, but pretending was fun for a while.

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I guess Meta's new lax moderation policy also applies to Meta themselves

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because they took the liberty of serving an Instagram user

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with unsettling AI generated images of himself in his feed

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after he used a Meta AI tool to edit a selfie.

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Meta apparently took that to mean he wants to be surprised by a fake image of himself

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reflecting on life in an endless maze of mirrors

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where he's the main focus and he looks thrilled.

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Now, back in September, Meta said they're testing serving content

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in Facebook and Instagram feeds created by their AI just for you,

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not of you, which is the issue here.

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Meta told 404 media that you can opt out

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of seeing otherworldly versions of yourself in your feed,

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but other platforms are experimenting with similar features.

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So you may just have to get used to AI's poking you like a toddler and saying,

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hey, look, I drew a picture of you. I don't care, where are your parents?

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Okay, we're coming back to CES news for the quick bits. These ones are a little different,

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but hey, that's okay. Yesterday, I told you I'd cover some more

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NVIDIA stuff, so here. GeForce Now is officially getting a native app

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for the Steam Deck later this year and expanded browser-based support

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on various mixed reality headsets too. So I guess Microsoft is right

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and all of those are an Xbox. What?

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No. What? One thing from the keynote I didn't cover yesterday

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was Project Digits, a tiny $3,000 desktop computer

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powered by the company's Blackwell GPU and their 20-core Grace CPU

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on a pretty standard-looking mobile chip. This is an ARM-based APU

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in a Mac mini-looking form factor. Could NVIDIA just leapfrog Qualcomm

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and start their own ARM PC revolution? Probably not with this.

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These are meant for researchers and people comfortable plopping another $3,000 PC on top of the first one

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to run their AI waifu locally.

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Long distance is hard. Speaking of AI companions,

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NVIDIA announced that generative AI-powered NPCs

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called co-playable characters will drop soon in PUBG and Naraka Blade Point

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where they'll help you find loot and swear to loyally hold off bad guys

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so you can run away and heal. If AIs can't love, then what is that?

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Oh, you're not a gamer? Don't worry, NVIDIA's Project R2X desktop assistant

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is here to answer the question, what if Clippy was hot?

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I found a hot AI girl and trapped her in my monitor.

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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,

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as usual, updated gaming and lifestyle models

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from ASUS, refreshed elite books and a new Snapdragon X-powered Omni Studio,

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all in one from HP. MSI had some pretty wild 18 inch gaming laptops

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to show off with lots of dragon related influences.

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It's what the people want. And Acer had a number of notebooks to show off,

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but not all of them had a chassis made partially out of crushed oyster shells like the Aspire Vero 16.

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So that's the one that gets the mention. I don't make the rules. And you know what?

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Let's cover Sony's CES announcements, which once again, involves reminding everyone,

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they're working on a car with Honda. It's called the Afila.

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Do we remember this? Yes. But since it's 2025,

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it has to ship with an AI personal agent, of course.

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What is new is the shipping estimate of 2026

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and the price. It starts at $89,900.

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But, hey, but that comes with a three year subscription

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to all the AI stuff, which is at least Toyota Corolla's worth.

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Sony also gave their mysterious next gen XR headset a name,

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ZIN with an X. I guess the nicotine pouches aren't big in Japan.

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But good news, you won't need the headset to enjoy Sony's future immersive entertainment concept,

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a box covered in displays and sensory doohickeys

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that will drop you into the world of the last of us and even let you smell what Ellie smells.

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Turns out the clickers are just ripping it all the time.

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It's mold and gas. It's not good.

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And we're gonna let it rip again tomorrow. So come on back for more.

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No, it'll be tech news. That's not, we're not ripping.

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Okay, that's disrespectful.