WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 All rise, the honorable court of tech news is now in session. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Today's docket is full and the defendant is the entire tech industry. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.000 May God have mercy on your bleeps and bloops, you computer goblets. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:22.000 OpenAI is killing Sora, its slot video-generating TikTok clone, less than six months after launch. 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. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:34.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, it's part of a strategic pivot to productivity tools 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:41.000 with OpenAI merging chatGBT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into one desktop super app, 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. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.000 Hey, you're actually a dingus either way. 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, 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.000 generating a grand total of $2.14 million in revenue. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:10.000 The announcement apparently prompted Disney to pull out of its planned $1 billion OpenAI investment, 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, 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.000 which has, again, departed for the great slot bucket in the sky. 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, 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. 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, 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. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:53.000 Disney has said they plan on pursuing similar deals with other AI companies. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.000 That's right girl, you were too good for him anyways. 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.000 Play Britney Spears Toxic, quick. 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. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:13.000 The first one dropped yesterday, when a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:18.000 after finding the company misled parents about the safety of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.000 The second one dropped just this morning, when an LA jury found Meta and YouTube negligent 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:30.000 for harming kids through addictive platform design, awarding the plaintiff $3 million in damages. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:36.000 During the New Mexico trial, Zuckerberg, seen in these courtroom drawings looking like an elderly boy, 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.000 and in this footage of him exiting the courtroom looking like a haunted puppet. 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. 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. 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. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:15.000 Oh boohoo, I'm so sorry, your 17 strike safety policy didn't cut it. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:21.000 These rulings are seen as so significant because they reject the common Section 230 defense, 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.000 which has historically shielded tech companies from liability over user-generated content. 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 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. 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.000 Equating social platforms with the weird guy who hangs out in the public square. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:48.000 These two cases are bellwethers for a glut of similar cases waiting in the wings. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.000 So, the bleeding isn't over for Old Zuckercourt. 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. 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, 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.000 just announced that it's making its own physical chip for the first time. 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. 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:27.000 It's a 3nm data center chip with 136 cores and a 300 watt TDP. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:31.000 Low enough to be air-cooled! Huh? We're air-cooling in here. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:36.000 It packs 12 channels of DDR5, which is great for ARM, and painful for me, 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.000 since I still can't find RAM for my second channel. 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, 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. 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 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:03.000 compared to x86, a potentially $10 billion saved per gigawatt of data center. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.000 And that's all cool, and like, you know, we're all very happy for ARM, 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:10.000 but why are they starting to compete with their own customers, 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.000 considering Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA already designed their own ARM-based chips? 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:21.000 Well, when asked if NVIDIA might find this move concerning, CEO Rene Haas replied, 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:26.000 Does it piss off NVIDIA? I'd imagine it will piss off Intel and AMD more. 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:29.000 Piss off everybody. 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. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.000 The court will now hear five minor charges. 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. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.000 What is this? I've never been in a court. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:54.000 Intel just launched the Arc Pro B70, which is the first card using Big Battle Mage, 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:58.000 aka the full-fat BMG G31 GPU. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:03.000 The B70 comes with 32 gigabytes of GDDR6 for only $950, 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. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.000 Intel finally built the big GPU that could be great for gaming, 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:16.000 and it's, of course, a workstation AI card. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:23.000 Well, but considering NVIDIA's RTX 4000 Pro with only 24 gigs of memory 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.000 is priced around 1900 USD, nearly double the B70, 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 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.000 is their refusal to let us play games on their best silicon. 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 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:49.000 with a new feature called NTSync, and the performance gains are reportedly stupid good. 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.000 According to Wine contributor and people who do a lot of other things too, 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.000 Code Weavers were talking 110 FPS to 860 in Dirt 3, 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:03.000 Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 to 77, 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:07.000 and unlike the old F-Sync slash E-Sync workarounds, 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:12.000 NTSync is baked into the mainline Linux kernel starting at version 6.14, 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:16.000 so any distro shipping that kernel gets it automatically. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.000 Reddit users are already confirming the gains are legit. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:23.000 I don't know, it might be time for Microsoft to adopt a new marketing slogan. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:27.000 Windows 11, the best way to download the OS that runs our games better. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:35.000 Ionio has suspended pre-orders for its AMD Strix Halo-powered Next 2 Windows gaming handheld, 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.000 claiming that production costs now approach twice the selling price, 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, 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. 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, 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. 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:14.000 The FCC just banned all new models of foreign-made consumer routers from US sales, 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:19.000 citing national security risks related to the Volt, Flax and Salt Typhoon cyber attacks. 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:25.000 Small problem, though. Virtually every consumer router sold in the US is made overseas. 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:29.000 Even American brands like Netgear are built in Vietnam and Taiwan. 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. 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, 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. 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. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:03.000 Despite giving themselves a leg down in that area seemingly on purpose, 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:10.000 the new clear coat uses a blend of torene and a stinky compound called ethanolamine. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.000 Ethanolamine, to give nails a small electric charge. 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, 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:24.000 a condition I just learned about that causes fingers to not register on touch screens. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.000 It's in moments like this that I wonder, a science gone too far. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:32.000 Are we like Icarus flying on wings of wax too close to the sun? 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:35.000 What? To fulfill the hubris of our fathers? 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:39.000 Deadlesses seeking only to serve their own egos? 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. 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:51.000 Or will we be forever pushed out beyond the edges of the map 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:56.000 by those behind us clamoring to see territory still unclaimed? 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.000 For here be monsters, my friends, and I fear 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:04.000 that those monsters are us. 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:08.000 And court is adjourned. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.000 The tech industry has been found guilty on all counts 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.000 and sentence two being discussed again on Friday. 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:18.000 The defendant showed no remorse. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.000 Never does.