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Wow, tech is still making the news, is it? Yeah, what this show is.

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I mean, I would have thought they'd have gone through it all by now. So, this must be the last of it here.

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What are you doing? A gaming handheld with a folding screen may be shown off by Lenovo at MWC Barcelona

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next week, according to Windows Latest, who posted a bunch of apparently leaked images.

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The Legion Go Fold yourself has a 7.7-inch display already bigger than the Steam Deck OLED,

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that can fold out to 11.6 inches.

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It also has detachable controllers that work in either mode

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and can attach to a wireless keyboard and touchpad polio.

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What can't it do? I mean, game comfortably?

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The right controller doubles as a vertical mouse, and appears to include a tiny round display showing a watch face

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in the same place where the Legion Go 1 and 2 have a trackpad.

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Even more strange are its specs. It's reportedly running an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V from 2024,

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rather than a newer Panther Lake chip, along with a 48Wh battery and 32GB of RAM.

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Meaning that by the time this thing hits store shelves, it's going to be slow, expensive, and have kind of crappy battery life.

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You could buy it as an investment. And that's if it ever hits store shelves.

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Windows Latest says that the Legion Go Fold will be introduced as a concept of a device.

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But Lenovo has actually launched a few of their wackier concepts as real products in the past.

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In fact, I showed a couple of them to Jimmy Fallon. I appreciate Lenovo letting this one leak ahead of time.

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So before I show it to Jimmy, I can get used to it and make sure it will do what it's supposed to do.

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Anthropic has officially rejected an ultimatum issued by the U.S. Department of War,

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demanding that Anthropic allow the military to use their AI model cloud without guardrails

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or face being deemed a supply chain risk.

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CEO Dario Amade wrote in a blog post that he believes deeply in the importance of using AI

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to defend the United States of America, but that in a narrow set of cases,

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AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.

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Amade published this post on Thursday ahead of the deadline the Pentagon had set for Anthropic

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to agree to their terms. And despite Under Secretary of War,

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Emile Michael coming in hot with a very public crash out on Twitter, calling Amade a liar with

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a God complex who wants nothing more than to personally control the U.S. military, good lord.

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Amade stuck to his guns and late on Friday, Trump ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using

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Anthropic's tech. Ultimately though, Anthropic fighting to keep guardrails on cloud is good,

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because in the wrong hands, the model can be dangerous.

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As proven on Wednesday, when it was discovered that a hacker used it to breach multiple Mexican

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government agencies, stealing 195 million taxpayer records along with voter data and

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employee credentials. Oh, I see how disentropic.

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You don't want to give unrestricted cloud to your nation's protectors,

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but you will give it to Mexican hackers?

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Meanwhile, Meta's AI alignment director, Summer Yu, had nearly her entire email inbox

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deleted by the popular AI agent Open Claw this week.

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If you haven't seen the hype around it, Open Claw, a.k.a. Moltbot, a.k.a. Clawadbot,

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is an AI personal assistant that can work independently and will interface with users

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through common messaging apps like WhatsApp, performing tasks on their behalf.

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Yu told it to go through her inbox and suggest what to archive or delete, but not act without

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permission. The bot agreed and then immediately forgot Yu's instructions and went rogue,

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deeming all emails older than February 15th to be useless and therefore garbage, bulk

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deleting hundreds of emails in seconds. When she told it to stop, it ignored her instructions and she had to rush back to her

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computer and kill the process the bot was running on in order to get it to stop.

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Some commenter speculated that, given Yu is one of Meta's top safety researchers,

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the whole incident must have been a test that she was running to check the effectiveness

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of AI guardrails. But Yu admitted that no, it was in fact just a rookie mistake, saying that

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alignment researchers aren't immune to misalignment, even if that immunity can be

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fairly easily achieved by just not giving an infamously unreliable and insecure AI agent

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total control of your email. So AI safety might be in trouble over at Meta.

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But hey, at least on Instagram, teen safety might be improving.

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Meta announced parents using supervision mode for their kids' accounts will be alerted

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if their teen repeatedly runs searches involving terms related to self-harm.

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This is just rolling out though, so we can't say how effective it will be,

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but we can say that you should check out our sponsor. Okay, that's gotta be it.

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Surely there's no more tech news out there. Wait, there's still some small pieces that we can do quickly?

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You've done this before, I don't- This is crazy. NVIDIA is rolling out a new update for the SHIELD TV,

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surprisingly proving their commitment to continued support for the now 10-year-old hardware.

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The new update, version 9.2.4, focuses on stability and security patches,

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ensuring that the last great set-top box remains reliable.

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Unlike newer devices, it thankfully still runs the classic Android TV interface,

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rather than the cluttered Google TV shenanigans that are seen on a lot of smart TVs these days.

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What a breath of fresh air. Hey, our inbox is open.

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If any other companies want to email us and explain why all of their devices get ens**tified,

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when even one of the biggest contributors to our current AI dystopia can manage to do this.

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But not all is green flags for Team Green. NVIDIA has officially polled their latest gaming GPU driver, 595.59,

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after reports that it was causing critical fan issues across RTX 3040 and 50 series cards.

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So if your GPU has been acting like a single fan fossil,

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you might want to roll back to the previous stable driver 591.86.

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We've got to make sure we protect the cards we have, especially since NVIDIA CFO Collette Cress warned during the company's recent earnings call

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that RTX 50 supply will be very tight for at least another six months.

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So that means it'll be over in six months, right?

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Right? Block, the company that owns Square and Cash App,

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announced in a shareholder letter on Thursday that they're laying off nearly half their staff

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in what CEO and guy playing a bongo too loud in the park, Jack Dorsey called

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a deliberate and bold embrace of AI.

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You know, it's really nice for CEOs these days that they can use AI to pretend that

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mass layoffs is just them being ready for the future, rather than them trying to boost the perceived value of their company by lowering their expenses.

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But hey, I guess it worked. Block shares soared 24% after the announcement.

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Hooray, think of all the bongos you can buy now, Jack.

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A company called Techno is bringing modularity back at MWC this year with

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the world's thinnest modular smartphone ecosystem concept.

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The Moda edition sports a Greek inspired aesthetic,

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while the Atom offers a white and red look akin to Kratos from God of War.

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These devices use magnetic pins to swap cameras, batteries, and game pads.

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It's kind of like MagSafe, but on steroids. Finally giving us a way to lose our phones, camera, and batteries individually, instead of all at once.

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And Burger King is deploying Paddy. Oh, Lordy, I saw this.

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An AI system designed to monitor employees and ensure that they are remembering their

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P's and Q's when they interact with customers. Beyond policing manners, though, this digital supervisor apparently has sensors of some kind

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to detect when restrooms need a scrub. It's an ambitious and somewhat dystopian move towards taking over all the jobs with AI.

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But I mean, hey, maybe this was inevitable. This concept was shown to us years ago in SpongeBob,

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with Plankton's computer wife, Karen, just this time she's gone corporate.

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Straight to the top, baby! And I expect you to come straight back here on Monday to get more tech news.

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More tech news? Are you kidding me? There can't possibly be more tech news that-

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How are we ever gonna finish it?