1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 All rise, the honorable court of tech news is now in session. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Today's docket is full and the defendant is the entire tech industry. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,000 May God have mercy on your bleeps and bloops, you computer goblets. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:22,000 OpenAI is killing Sora, its slot video-generating TikTok clone, less than six months after launch. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Users will lose access to video generation via the mobile app, website, the API, and even in chatGBT itself. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,000 According to the Wall Street Journal, it's part of a strategic pivot to productivity tools 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:41,000 with OpenAI merging chatGBT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into one desktop super app, 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:49,000 which is likely CorpoSpeak for CDAN's 2.0 is eating our lunch and Sammy Boy doesn't want to look like a dingus. 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Hey, you're actually a dingus either way. 10 00:00:52,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Sora's downloads had already plunged from $3.3 million in November to just $1.1 million by February, 11 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 generating a grand total of $2.14 million in revenue. 12 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:10,000 The announcement apparently prompted Disney to pull out of its planned $1 billion OpenAI investment, 13 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:17,000 which was part of a deal which would have seen over 200 Disney characters licensed for use in the Sora app, 14 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 which has, again, departed for the great slot bucket in the sky. 15 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:29,000 Disney, who was reportedly blindsided by the announcement, released a statement with all of the energy of a recent divorcee, 16 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:36,000 saying that they respect OpenAI's decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere. 17 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,000 A confidential source told Reuters that it was a big rug pull, saying Disney wasn't informed of the move beforehand, 18 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000 despite the fact that they had been in a meeting with the OpenAI team just 30 minutes before. 19 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:53,000 Disney has said they plan on pursuing similar deals with other AI companies. 20 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,000 That's right girl, you were too good for him anyways. 21 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Play Britney Spears Toxic, quick. 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:07,000 We can't, we can't. A pair of landmark social media rulings were handed down this week that could set legal precedents. 23 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:13,000 The first one dropped yesterday, when a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million 24 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,000 after finding the company misled parents about the safety of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. 25 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 The second one dropped just this morning, when an LA jury found Meta and YouTube negligent 26 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:30,000 for harming kids through addictive platform design, awarding the plaintiff $3 million in damages. 27 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:36,000 During the New Mexico trial, Zuckerberg, seen in these courtroom drawings looking like an elderly boy, 28 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,000 and in this footage of him exiting the courtroom looking like a haunted puppet. 29 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:50,000 This is important details. Attempted to refute the evidence by stating that harms to children were inevitable on his platforms due to their massive user bases. 30 00:02:50,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Yikes, dude. I guess his PR team forgot to explicitly tell him that real humans don't love it when you refer to harming children as an inevitability. 31 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Meta has already stated their plans to appeal both cases, saying they work hard to keep people safe on our platforms. 32 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Oh boohoo, I'm so sorry, your 17 strike safety policy didn't cut it. 33 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,000 These rulings are seen as so significant because they reject the common Section 230 defense, 34 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 which has historically shielded tech companies from liability over user-generated content. 35 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:32,000 As it stands, neither of the cases is totally over with the LA jury deliberating on punitive damages 36 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,000 and the New Mexico case moving to a second trial in May where a judge will rule on public nuisance claims. 37 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Equating social platforms with the weird guy who hangs out in the public square. 38 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,000 These two cases are bellwethers for a glut of similar cases waiting in the wings. 39 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 So, the bleeding isn't over for Old Zuckercourt. 40 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:59,000 That's my new favorite nickname for him. But I guess with such a massive user base, you can say it was kind of inevitable. 41 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:06,000 How does that feel? ARM, the company that spent 35 years licensing chip designs to basically everyone, 42 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,000 just announced that it's making its own physical chip for the first time. 43 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:21,000 That's right, it's our turn now. The Switzerland of Chips declared war, and to the front lines, they brought the ARM AGI CPU. 44 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:27,000 It's a 3nm data center chip with 136 cores and a 300 watt TDP. 45 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Low enough to be air-cooled! Huh? We're air-cooling in here. 46 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 It packs 12 channels of DDR5, which is great for ARM, and painful for me, 47 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 since I still can't find RAM for my second channel. 48 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,000 But happy for you, though. Meta actually co-developed the chip with ARM, and there it's lead customer, 49 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,000 and will be pairing the chip with their own custom accelerators to melt kids' brains faster than ever before. 50 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:57,000 ARM claims that a single air-cooled rack fits over 8,000 cores with twice the performance per rack 51 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:03,000 compared to x86, a potentially $10 billion saved per gigawatt of data center. 52 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,000 And that's all cool, and like, you know, we're all very happy for ARM, 53 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 but why are they starting to compete with their own customers, 54 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:15,000 considering Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA already designed their own ARM-based chips? 55 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Well, when asked if NVIDIA might find this move concerning, CEO Rene Haas replied, 56 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Does it piss off NVIDIA? I'd imagine it will piss off Intel and AMD more. 57 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Piss off everybody. 58 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,000 Got it. Good strategy. Hey, he could be frustrated from trying to make a website without our sponsor. 59 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,000 The court will now hear five minor charges. 60 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:45,000 The quick bits. They have been sworn in, and I must warn you, they are hostile witnesses. 61 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 What is this? I've never been in a court. 62 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:54,000 Intel just launched the Arc Pro B70, which is the first card using Big Battle Mage, 63 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 aka the full-fat BMG G31 GPU. 64 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,000 The B70 comes with 32 gigabytes of GDDR6 for only $950, 65 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:09,000 with a cheaper Arc Pro B65, also with 32 gigabytes of VRAM, set for an April launch. 66 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Intel finally built the big GPU that could be great for gaming, 67 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,000 and it's, of course, a workstation AI card. 68 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Well, but considering NVIDIA's RTX 4000 Pro with only 24 gigs of memory 69 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,000 is priced around 1900 USD, nearly double the B70, 70 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:34,000 these cards are a good deal. I mean, as far as RAM goes, I guess the only thing Intel is battling right now 71 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 is their refusal to let us play games on their best silicon. 72 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:44,000 They're battling a few other things, but... Wine 11 has rewritten how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level 73 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,000 with a new feature called NTSync, and the performance gains are reportedly stupid good. 74 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 According to Wine contributor and people who do a lot of other things too, 75 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Code Weavers were talking 110 FPS to 860 in Dirt 3, 76 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 to 77, 77 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,000 and unlike the old F-Sync slash E-Sync workarounds, 78 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 NTSync is baked into the mainline Linux kernel starting at version 6.14, 79 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 so any distro shipping that kernel gets it automatically. 80 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Reddit users are already confirming the gains are legit. 81 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,000 I don't know, it might be time for Microsoft to adopt a new marketing slogan. 82 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Windows 11, the best way to download the OS that runs our games better. 83 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Ionio has suspended pre-orders for its AMD Strix Halo-powered Next 2 Windows gaming handheld, 84 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,000 claiming that production costs now approach twice the selling price, 85 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:47,000 which already started at 2000 bucks. Ionio had to make the call after storage and RAM suppliers quoted prices several times higher than before, 86 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:53,000 which was obviously caused by AI data centers going all hungry hungry hippos on the global memory supply. 87 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Those scamps. Ionio says the suspension is temporary and they may consider resuming sales if the prices come back down, 88 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:07,000 but it turns out Next 2 is the amount of decades left until you can afford RAM, I guess. 89 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:14,000 The FCC just banned all new models of foreign-made consumer routers from US sales, 90 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 citing national security risks related to the Volt, Flax and Salt Typhoon cyber attacks. 91 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Small problem, though. Virtually every consumer router sold in the US is made overseas. 92 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Even American brands like Netgear are built in Vietnam and Taiwan. 93 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Existing models can still be sold, but new models will need conditional approval from the DOD or DHS. 94 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:43,000 And all this makes a ton of sense because the Typhoon hacks were largely carried out on American-made Cisco Enterprise equipment, 95 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,000 not consumer routers. But that's the way they like it. Made in America, hacked in America. 96 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:59,000 At least they're keeping jobs domestic. And an undergrad at Centenary College of Louisiana has developed a nail polish that lets people with long fingernails actually use touch screens. 97 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Despite giving themselves a leg down in that area seemingly on purpose, 98 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:10,000 the new clear coat uses a blend of torene and a stinky compound called ethanolamine. 99 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Ethanolamine, to give nails a small electric charge. 100 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,000 A little more scared now than I was before. Which could also help people with zombie finger, 101 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 a condition I just learned about that causes fingers to not register on touch screens. 102 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,000 It's in moments like this that I wonder, a science gone too far. 103 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Are we like Icarus flying on wings of wax too close to the sun? 104 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,000 What? To fulfill the hubris of our fathers? 105 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,000 Deadlesses seeking only to serve their own egos? 106 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Is there no rest or respite? No moment where we say we have come far enough and turned back from the precipice of innovation. 107 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Or will we be forever pushed out beyond the edges of the map 108 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:56,000 by those behind us clamoring to see territory still unclaimed? 109 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,000 For here be monsters, my friends, and I fear 110 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 that those monsters are us. 111 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 And court is adjourned. 112 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 The tech industry has been found guilty on all counts 113 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,000 and sentence two being discussed again on Friday. 114 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 The defendant showed no remorse. 115 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Never does.