1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,160 You know, tech news is kind of like Magic the Gathering. There's near constant new releases to keep up with. 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,200 Lord knows it can get expensive. Both have forecasting and scrying mechanics 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:16,120 and people online are almost always pissed off about it. So NVIDIA's N1X ARM-based laptop class CPU 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:20,240 was recently spotted in a shipping manifest for an unreleased Dell laptop, 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:23,840 reigniting hype for the world's most valuable company 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,120 to enter a new market. Wait, why do we want this again? 7 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:33,320 The leak lined up perfectly with a new report from Digitimes placing NVIDIA's big ARM laptop debut 8 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,520 on an internal roadmap for Q1, 2026. 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,840 That's now, according to supply change sources, 10 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,000 followed by three additional variants in Q2, 11 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,280 likely aimed at enterprise buyers. Meanwhile, the next generation and two series 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,240 is apparently already penciled in for Q3, 2027. 13 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,360 Okay, settle down. The first one's already been out yet. 14 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:03,320 I'm gonna call you Sparky. Which would make sense? Considering what Jensen Wong confirmed late last year, 15 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,440 N1 silicon is the same GB10 super chip 16 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:11,520 used in the DGX Spark. NVIDIA's Mac mini looking pro workstation 17 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:17,120 for AI developers and researchers with a 20 core ARM CPU, integrated Blackwell GPU 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,000 and a holier than thou attitude. But even if you're not stoked 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,920 for an ARM powered Windows laptop chip from the four and a half trillion dollar company, 20 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:31,280 you have to admit it's interesting. NVIDIA's Tegra CPUs powered the much hated 21 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,600 Microsoft Surface 2 Windows RT tablet 22 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:41,080 and the much loved Nintendo Switch 1 and 2. But this would be the first time NVIDIA goes toe to toe 23 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:44,480 with Intel, AMD and Qualcomm CPUs 24 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,640 in the Windows laptop market. Who are we cheering for? 25 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,440 And I don't, it's very confusing. 26 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:57,120 When in doubt, go Linux. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking 27 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,240 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 28 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,320 has warned that the AI boom could falter 29 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,960 or even wiggle and wobble like some kind of bubble. 30 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:12,640 If AI doesn't move beyond flashy demos into real everyday productivity gains, 31 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:16,520 otherwise he says companies could lose the social permission 32 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,000 to keep pouring electricity, chips and money into these systems. 33 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,280 These AI companies are just like Francis Ford Coppola 34 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:28,360 and his movie, Megalopolis. They don't care if the product makes any money, 35 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,920 they must perform an exercise in excess, it's art. 36 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:36,480 What did you say? Investment in these businesses is what's keeping the US economy afloat? 37 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,480 Oh, I guess that's why everyone's scrambling 38 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:45,360 to figure out how to actually monetize this stuff. OpenAI is reportedly preparing to introduce ads 39 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:50,080 into chat GBT while Gemini will definitely not introduce ads. 40 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,960 Insists Google, the web ads monopoly company. 41 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,320 Meanwhile, NVIDIA's Jensen Wong is pushing back hard 42 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,200 on bubble fears, arguing that AI isn't overhyped 43 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:06,080 so much as it's underbuilt and that large investments are still required 44 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,120 before AI can truly transform industries. 45 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,960 Pretty much Satya is saying AI still needs to prove it's worth. 46 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,640 Jensen is saying these jackets don't pay for themselves. 47 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,760 You like my jacket? Sony has announced it's basically handing over control 48 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,840 of its TV and home audio business, including the iconic Bravia line to TCL 49 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:34,120 or at least to a new joint venture that TCL will own 51% of with Sony keeping 49%. 50 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:40,000 The deal still keeps the Sony and Bravia branding on future TVs, but TCL will take the lead 51 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,400 on product development, manufacturing, sales, logistics and customer support while Sony contributes 52 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,280 its picture processing, audio tech and brand value. 53 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:54,280 I mean Sony, that's Walkman, PlayStation, Pro cameras, TCL. 54 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,520 What do they make, a tape? The goal is to battle thin margins 55 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,440 by marrying Sony's premium image with TCL's scale, 56 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,920 cost efficiency and supply chain muscle. Still, it feels a little weird. 57 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,720 It's as if Costco's in-house brand Kirkland 58 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:18,880 bought Versace to get the fashionistas inside them big, beautiful bulk shopping warehouses. 59 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:23,760 These are Okadur mass produced consumer electronics. 60 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:28,000 Mwah, try the hot dogs. Regulatory approvals are still needed 61 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,400 and the new company isn't expected to start up until around April, 2027 62 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:37,800 once binding agreements are finalized. Now, if you're a total Bravia head, don't worry. 63 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,920 Bravia products, much like the NFL's Buffalo Bills 64 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,720 are not going anywhere, but someone new is going to be calling the plays. 65 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,520 The Bills, they fired their coach. It's a football reference. 66 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:55,120 I need a break. I'm going to have a seat on our sponsor. 67 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,680 Now, classically, the QuickBits play mono red 68 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:04,240 because they're aggro. But Sonic the Hedgehog is their favorite commander 69 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,120 because they love flash and haste. I don't know what I just said. 70 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,240 AMD might be hitting pause on major new gaming GPU launches 71 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:16,000 until around 2027, at least according to rumors coming out 72 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,960 of the Anantek forums, which are still alive and well, apparently. 73 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,240 Awesome. The chatter is driven by a well-known leaker, 74 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,440 Kepler underscore L2, who claims AMD's next-gen RDNA5 75 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,760 could arrive after NVIDIA's RTX 60 series, 76 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:37,560 also rumored to launch next year. If true, that would make 2026 a pretty quiet year 77 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,240 for new Radeon GPUs and GPUs in general, really, 78 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,040 as AMD focuses on timing, process nodes, and competitive positioning, 79 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,360 rather than rushing out new cards. I know patience is a virtue, 80 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,760 but I wouldn't be mad if you all rushed out a new card. I said it. 81 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,680 The tech news guy thinks new GPUs are cool. So sue me, I'll see you in court. 82 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,880 Twitter has open sourced its recommendation algorithm, 83 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:07,400 which decides what shows up in user's feeds right as the platform faces a looming EU transparency fine 84 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,640 and renewed controversy around their AI companion, Grock. 85 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,920 Is that what we're calling him? Sure. The move follows long-standing promises from Elon 86 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,360 to make the platform more transparent, although it only took him like what, 87 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:23,680 three years from when he made the poll about it? I've been recommended things constantly on Twitter 88 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:28,480 since then, and I had no idea why. How does it know I like things? 89 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,400 A French court has ruled that Apple can keep app tracking transparency turned on, 90 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,400 rejecting advertiser demands to weaken and remove the feature. 91 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,600 ATT, first introduced in 2021, forces apps to ask permission 92 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,760 before tracking users across other apps and websites. 93 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,360 And most users say no to that. 94 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:52,320 No thank you for obvious reasons. French ad groups argue that the feature 95 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:55,680 cuts targeting effectiveness by nearly 50%, 96 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:59,200 but the court found no abuse of power on Apple's side, 97 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:04,000 which is a little ironic, given that blocking everyone else from harvesting 98 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:09,240 your user data and serving you personalized ads just allows Apple to do it by themselves. 99 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,720 Honestly, I'm okay with that if it means that the only thing being advertised to me 100 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:17,440 is a $300 phone satchel. Hey, remember that Swiss assisted death pod 101 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:22,240 that led to several arrests, and later the assisted death of the doctor 102 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,640 who helped oversee its first use because of the psychological damage that was caused 103 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,880 from being involved in that whole situation? Yeah, well it's back. 104 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:35,880 Now with AI, the sarcopod developed by Exit International 105 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,640 is being updated with an AI-driven mental fitness screening, 106 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,920 meant to assess the user before they use it, 107 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,340 including a new model called the double Dutch for couples. 108 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,320 Apparently having a psychologist is too expensive, 109 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,600 so the new plan is to have an AI agent assess both partners 110 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:03,120 to see if they should be allowed to die and then give them 24 hours in the pods to think it over. 111 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,600 I feel like this is probably the one thing, the absolute one thing 112 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,880 that AI should definitely not be used for. I mean, they already kind of look 113 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,480 like the Matrix battery farm pods. What are we doing? 114 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,680 Okay, that was dark. Let's end with some good news. American and Korean researchers have collaborated 115 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:26,720 to develop a stretchable OLED that can double in size without dimming, ha ha. 116 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,640 They used ultra-thin Maxine electrodes and specialized organic layers 117 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:38,240 to keep the display bright even when stretched, achieving a record 17% external quantum efficiency. 118 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:43,560 And while I don't know exactly what external quantum deficiency efficiency is, 119 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:49,880 the important thing is that apparently flexible, wearable displays are closer to reality than ever before. 120 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:54,760 I think the real question is, if they brought this stretchable OLED onto Jimmy Fallon's show, 121 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,400 would it actually stretch or would it get performance anxiety like the last guy? 122 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,600 That's rude. I won't judge your performance as an audience member. 123 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:08,160 If you come back on Friday for more tech news, I gotta go get some Paxilorwin Eclipse. 124 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:14,080 Y'all know I'm a big Kithkin guy, little knockoff brand hobbit ass freaks. 125 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,480 Geez, that's a little, okay. Sorry. 126 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,160 Nathan wrote that. Tweet Nathan. 127 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:23,360 I don't know if he has Twitter.