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Okay, I've been thinking about this a lot and I'm pretty sure 100 guys could beat one gorilla

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unless he had watched this show and become incredibly smart.

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At that point, all bets are off. It's like Planet of the Apes fast takeoff situation.

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YouTube says they're running an experiment where a small percentage of viewers

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will see blurred video thumbnails when they search for topics

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that frequently include sexual themes. The feature is meant to help users

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avoid accidentally viewing sensitive content if that's what they want.

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Users will have the option to unblur the thumbnails though

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if they're more in touch with their sensitive side.

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But for most people, blurring mature content should dissuade them from viewing it.

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I mean, hey, it worked for the Japanese.

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Wait, YouTube apparently ran a similar experiment

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back in 2023. They love science, but this latest one comes

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as the tech world is grappling with how to stop children

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from having their brain melted by social platforms.

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That's only for grownups. We're closer to death, so it doesn't matter.

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But who's responsible for age verification? Well, Meta, Spotify, and other app makers think,

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not them, they think it's Apple and Google's job.

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So they formed a lobbying group called the Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience

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or CFACME.

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They care about obviously good and uncontroversial things

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like interoperability, a level playing field,

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and age verification being someone else's responsibility.

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Okay, I'm mocking them, but there is a good argument that if we figure out how to verify age

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without compromising privacy, it probably shouldn't be a separate implementation

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for every app. Regardless, it's good that people are thinking

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about this now and even enacting legislation.

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Finland just banned students from using smartphones at school

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except under strict conditions, like if one of their TikToks hit a million likes.

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You gotta check it at that point. Taiwan just passed a law that will limit

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the world's preeminent chip maker, TSMC,

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from manufacturing its top tier technologies outside of the country,

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a move partially meant to stave off annexation attempts

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from China. Now, despite this, TSMC just broke ground

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on its third chip manufacturing facility in Arizona,

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which some industry leaders reportedly expect to produce chips based on the company's

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currently most advanced N2 process.

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But they'll change their mind, right? Speaking of changing your mind,

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Trump just softened his tariffs a bit for the auto industry,

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exempting automakers from paying some tariffs

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on steel and aluminum if they're part of a whole assembly.

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Unfortunately, it's not the tariffs themselves that are really the issue anymore.

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It's the fact that they're constantly changing. So this doesn't, one company's looking better

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than the others after the most recent tariffs though, and you'll never guess who it is.

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Two Tesla models are the only vehicles exempt

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from the new auto tariffs, which don't apply to vehicles

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with a domestic content rating of at least 85%.

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The exact rating given to the Model Y

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by the Made in America Auto Index from the Kogod School of Business.

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Phew, congrats Tesla, close one.

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Meta summoned some AI announcements at their first specifically AI focused conference,

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which they called LamaCon, but which I will refer to as MetaLamaCon

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because it sounds like an ancient book of demonically overhyped bulls***.

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In addition to Lama models being available through an API

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like OpenAI's offerings, Meta also finally unveiled a dedicated mobile app

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for their Meta AI chatbot with a better voice mode and a social feed

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so you can see what kind of slop the AI is throwing at your friends.

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It's slop, but hey, that's my friend's slop.

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It slurps different. If you'd prefer to keep things just between you and the AI though,

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WhatsApp says it's developing a system kind of similar to Apple's private cloud

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to accomplish this. This feature follows complaints about Meta AI

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being suddenly added to WhatsApp with no way to remove it.

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Paulie Hudson at The Guardian compared it to Apple's genius idea back in 2014

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to make everyone's iTunes automatically download

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a free U2 album. Why would anyone be mad about this?

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Somehow there are still wikiHow entries on how to get rid of it.

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In other AI news, Wikipedia says it's gonna use AI now.

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Don't freak out, calm down. They are very explicitly not using it

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to write the text on the Wikipedia pages. They're just using it to automate some support processes

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so that human editors can spend their time editing out all the nonsense other humans

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are constantly trying to force in there because AI tools should be used to help humans.

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That's why free stock image provider FreePick and AI startup foul.ai developed Flight,

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an open source image generator trained entirely on properly licensed content.

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Another AI focused production company, Asteria,

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says the same is true for their models, which will be a core part of an upcoming

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experimental sci-fi film developed in part by actress and writer Natasha Leon.

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According to her, this project is gonna be wild, saying, imagine if Diane West and Diane Keaton

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at their loquacious best decided to take a journey

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through the matrix for sport, only to find themselves holding up an architectural blueprint

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and you'll have a sense of the adventure we've been on.

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Well, I'm sensing something.

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I know the tech news would make the gorilla super smart, but I don't really feel it yet.

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Maybe I have to do the quick bits first. Nintendo's virtual game card system

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announced alongside the Switch 2 is now rolling out for Switch 1 systems,

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but to current Switch owners dismay, it closes a loophole that has allowed two Switch consoles

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to play the same digital copy of a game online simultaneously.

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On some scenarios, you might still be able to pull this off if one console is disconnected from Wi-Fi,

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so you won't be online, but that's obviously unacceptable. And the Switch 1 is now ruined.

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I will not be pre-ordering the Switch 2 because Nintendo's pre-order requirements say I can't.

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Android 16 will bring some noticeable UI changes

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according to a rundown by Android authority. Many new elements, including the quick settings panel,

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will feature fairly iOS-esque frosted glass transparencies

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instead of solid backgrounds, making dark mode, in some cases,

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look a hell of a lot, not like dark mode.

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I've had enough of this. I think it's time for a dumb phone. Like the side phone, a stylish new tiny guy

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with a swappable keypad, keypad.

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Oh, it's keypad. Keypad and up to eight days of battery.

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That thing can't hurt me. It's too small. Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the stand

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during the Department of Justice's antitrust remedies trial to warn the judge

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that forcing Google to break up its business could have unforeseen consequences.

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For example, if Google was forced to license its search API

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so other companies could build proper competitors, why?

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That might crush Google's spirit to the point they wouldn't even care to keep working on search.

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And then people might use other search engines instead.

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Why? Oh, that's the point. And smart rings are getting pretty sophisticated.

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I think we're now ready for the raw ring,

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a finger loop for you and your partner

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that's packed with sensors so it can notify you when your partner is feeling aroused.

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The raw rings creators say their product can help married couples build loyalty and trust

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by not trusting that they'll behave themselves.

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I don't know. Where was their head at here? They're also making a dating app

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and I don't need to know how that works, but I would like to know if you can spoof this thing

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by putting the ring on a sausage because if so, I mean the whole idea is shot.

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Just like this episode. Thanks for watching you 100 guys.

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I'm Gorilla and I'll be back here on Friday for more tech news to give to you.

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I don't think this is working.