Okay, I've been thinking about this a lot and I'm pretty sure 100 guys could beat one gorilla
unless he had watched this show and become incredibly smart.
At that point, all bets are off. It's like Planet of the Apes fast takeoff situation.
YouTube says they're running an experiment where a small percentage of viewers
will see blurred video thumbnails when they search for topics
that frequently include sexual themes. The feature is meant to help users
avoid accidentally viewing sensitive content if that's what they want.
Users will have the option to unblur the thumbnails though
if they're more in touch with their sensitive side.
But for most people, blurring mature content should dissuade them from viewing it.
I mean, hey, it worked for the Japanese.
Wait, YouTube apparently ran a similar experiment
back in 2023. They love science, but this latest one comes
as the tech world is grappling with how to stop children
from having their brain melted by social platforms.
That's only for grownups. We're closer to death, so it doesn't matter.
But who's responsible for age verification? Well, Meta, Spotify, and other app makers think,
not them, they think it's Apple and Google's job.
So they formed a lobbying group called the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience
or CFACME.
They care about obviously good and uncontroversial things
like interoperability, a level playing field,
and age verification being someone else's responsibility.
Okay, I'm mocking them, but there is a good argument that if we figure out how to verify age
without compromising privacy, it probably shouldn't be a separate implementation
for every app. Regardless, it's good that people are thinking
about this now and even enacting legislation.
Finland just banned students from using smartphones at school
except under strict conditions, like if one of their TikToks hit a million likes.
You gotta check it at that point. Taiwan just passed a law that will limit
the world's preeminent chip maker, TSMC,
from manufacturing its top tier technologies outside of the country,
a move partially meant to stave off annexation attempts
from China. Now, despite this, TSMC just broke ground
on its third chip manufacturing facility in Arizona,
which some industry leaders reportedly expect to produce chips based on the company's
currently most advanced N2 process.
But they'll change their mind, right? Speaking of changing your mind,
Trump just softened his tariffs a bit for the auto industry,
exempting automakers from paying some tariffs
on steel and aluminum if they're part of a whole assembly.
Unfortunately, it's not the tariffs themselves that are really the issue anymore.
It's the fact that they're constantly changing. So this doesn't, one company's looking better
than the others after the most recent tariffs though, and you'll never guess who it is.
Two Tesla models are the only vehicles exempt
from the new auto tariffs, which don't apply to vehicles
with a domestic content rating of at least 85%.
The exact rating given to the Model Y
by the Made in America Auto Index from the Kogod School of Business.
Phew, congrats Tesla, close one.
Meta summoned some AI announcements at their first specifically AI focused conference,
which they called LamaCon, but which I will refer to as MetaLamaCon
because it sounds like an ancient book of demonically overhyped bulls***.
In addition to Lama models being available through an API
like OpenAI's offerings, Meta also finally unveiled a dedicated mobile app
for their Meta AI chatbot with a better voice mode and a social feed
so you can see what kind of slop the AI is throwing at your friends.
It's slop, but hey, that's my friend's slop.
It slurps different. If you'd prefer to keep things just between you and the AI though,
WhatsApp says it's developing a system kind of similar to Apple's private cloud
to accomplish this. This feature follows complaints about Meta AI
being suddenly added to WhatsApp with no way to remove it.
Paulie Hudson at The Guardian compared it to Apple's genius idea back in 2014
to make everyone's iTunes automatically download
a free U2 album. Why would anyone be mad about this?
Somehow there are still wikiHow entries on how to get rid of it.
In other AI news, Wikipedia says it's gonna use AI now.
Don't freak out, calm down. They are very explicitly not using it
to write the text on the Wikipedia pages. They're just using it to automate some support processes
so that human editors can spend their time editing out all the nonsense other humans
are constantly trying to force in there because AI tools should be used to help humans.
That's why free stock image provider FreePick and AI startup foul.ai developed Flight,
an open source image generator trained entirely on properly licensed content.
Another AI focused production company, Asteria,
says the same is true for their models, which will be a core part of an upcoming
experimental sci-fi film developed in part by actress and writer Natasha Leon.
According to her, this project is gonna be wild, saying, imagine if Diane West and Diane Keaton
at their loquacious best decided to take a journey
through the matrix for sport, only to find themselves holding up an architectural blueprint
and you'll have a sense of the adventure we've been on.
Well, I'm sensing something.
I know the tech news would make the gorilla super smart, but I don't really feel it yet.
Maybe I have to do the quick bits first. Nintendo's virtual game card system
announced alongside the Switch 2 is now rolling out for Switch 1 systems,
but to current Switch owners dismay, it closes a loophole that has allowed two Switch consoles
to play the same digital copy of a game online simultaneously.
On some scenarios, you might still be able to pull this off if one console is disconnected from Wi-Fi,
so you won't be online, but that's obviously unacceptable. And the Switch 1 is now ruined.
I will not be pre-ordering the Switch 2 because Nintendo's pre-order requirements say I can't.
Android 16 will bring some noticeable UI changes
according to a rundown by Android authority. Many new elements, including the quick settings panel,
will feature fairly iOS-esque frosted glass transparencies
instead of solid backgrounds, making dark mode, in some cases,
look a hell of a lot, not like dark mode.
I've had enough of this. I think it's time for a dumb phone. Like the side phone, a stylish new tiny guy
with a swappable keypad, keypad.
Oh, it's keypad. Keypad and up to eight days of battery.
That thing can't hurt me. It's too small. Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stand
during the Department of Justice's antitrust remedies trial to warn the judge
that forcing Google to break up its business could have unforeseen consequences.
For example, if Google was forced to license its search API
so other companies could build proper competitors, why?
That might crush Google's spirit to the point they wouldn't even care to keep working on search.
And then people might use other search engines instead.
Why? Oh, that's the point. And smart rings are getting pretty sophisticated.
I think we're now ready for the raw ring,
a finger loop for you and your partner
that's packed with sensors so it can notify you when your partner is feeling aroused.
The raw rings creators say their product can help married couples build loyalty and trust
by not trusting that they'll behave themselves.
I don't know. Where was their head at here? They're also making a dating app
and I don't need to know how that works, but I would like to know if you can spoof this thing
by putting the ring on a sausage because if so, I mean the whole idea is shot.
Just like this episode. Thanks for watching you 100 guys.
I'm Gorilla and I'll be back here on Friday for more tech news to give to you.
I don't think this is working.