1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,960 I'm gonna be completely honest, we're shooting this video really late and there's a lot of tech news 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,340 so we gotta move fast, let's go! The White House claimed this week 3 00:00:07,340 --> 00:00:13,420 that at least some imports from China are now subject to a 245% tariff, 4 00:00:13,420 --> 00:00:16,700 leaving some analysts wondering whether this was a typo. 5 00:00:16,700 --> 00:00:21,000 But it appears that 245% includes previous tariffs 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,380 levied against China during the preceding Trump and Biden administrations 7 00:00:25,380 --> 00:00:30,060 and the current administration is now including them on the executive orders because hey, 8 00:00:30,060 --> 00:00:35,780 you gotta put up big numbers to make the investors happy. You guys, you guys like this? 9 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:42,300 But despite the US government trying to cut China off, US consumers are flocking to the Chinese shopping apps, 10 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:45,900 DHgate and Taobao, which were the top downloaded 11 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:49,620 free shopping apps on the iOS app store at the time of writing. 12 00:00:49,620 --> 00:00:52,780 This follows also Chinese shopping app, Timu 13 00:00:52,780 --> 00:00:57,460 and Xi'en, which is now based in Singapore, announcing price hikes in the wake 14 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:02,300 of the Trump administration's tariffs. Some reports indicate users are turning to Taobao 15 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:05,780 and DHgate to buy luxury items direct from China, 16 00:01:05,780 --> 00:01:08,940 which usually sell for way more after they've gone 17 00:01:08,940 --> 00:01:12,300 to some brand HQ in Europe for final packaging 18 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,940 and a little kiss of approval from an eccentric old Italian guy. 19 00:01:18,940 --> 00:01:22,620 Send it away! But there is some good tariff related news. 20 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:25,660 Nintendo announced US and Canada pre-orders 21 00:01:25,660 --> 00:01:29,140 for the Switch 2 will go live on April 24th 22 00:01:29,140 --> 00:01:33,780 and the company confirmed they are not hiking the price of the console or its games. 23 00:01:33,780 --> 00:01:38,580 Just its accessories. Joy-Cons are like a hundred bucks and a dock is 120? 24 00:01:38,580 --> 00:01:43,260 Hey, I mean, what? Well, you're not a real fan. The little strap is $14. 25 00:01:43,260 --> 00:01:47,540 Okay, Google is getting kind of aggressive with their Gemini feature rollouts. 26 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:51,780 Free users can now use Gemini Live's screen sharing feature 27 00:01:51,780 --> 00:01:58,180 which was previously only available to paid users or owners of a Pixel 9 or Galaxy S25 device. 28 00:01:58,180 --> 00:02:01,620 The feature lets you talk to Gemini while showing it your camera feed 29 00:02:01,620 --> 00:02:04,940 like you're on a video call. And it's basically the same interface used 30 00:02:04,940 --> 00:02:08,020 by the prototype smart glasses Google recently demoed 31 00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:14,180 at a TED conference. If that's even real, I'm so tired. 32 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:17,700 Look, don't think about it, especially if you're a college student in the US 33 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:23,300 because Google's giving all of you free access to Gemini Advanced until June 30th. 34 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:26,700 So you can get all that help from AI to write your papers for you 35 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:32,940 while you play with the also just rolled out VO2 video generation into the wee hours of the night, 36 00:02:32,940 --> 00:02:37,020 morning, something. This really smells like the give every kid a Chromebook 37 00:02:37,020 --> 00:02:40,140 and now they're used to it and will buy another Chromebook program. 38 00:02:40,140 --> 00:02:43,900 That's what it's called. It's what it says on the webpage. But I don't know, the internet is finding out 39 00:02:43,900 --> 00:02:48,820 some cool stuff about ChatGPT's newest biggest reasoning model, O3. 40 00:02:48,820 --> 00:02:51,820 Turns out it's really good at GeoGuessr, 41 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:55,100 even correctly identifying a specific library 42 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:59,140 based on a picture of books on the shelf. 43 00:02:59,140 --> 00:03:05,220 I mean, it answers just as confidently when it gets it wrong, but you gotta admit it's got some chutzpah, okay? 44 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:09,860 It's also doing a kind of a creepy thing now where it's referring to users by name 45 00:03:09,860 --> 00:03:15,660 in its internal chain of thought, which seems to be related to the recent ChatGPT update 46 00:03:15,660 --> 00:03:19,940 causing it to reference all of your previous chats when answering a prompt. 47 00:03:19,940 --> 00:03:23,600 And this feels even weirder than addressing you directly by name 48 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,640 because it's like asking someone a question and then they're like, sure. 49 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,920 Riley just asked me a question so I should probably do a web search to find the answer. 50 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:36,040 Oh, he's looking at me right now with his stupid face. 51 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,120 This guy, his name's Riley, really needs a haircut. 52 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,280 I can hear you. Another fun fact is that O3 and reasoning models 53 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,600 in general hallucinate more than previous models, 54 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,720 according to both OpenAI and AI Research Lab Transluse 55 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:55,040 because they make more claims both accurate and inaccurate. 56 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,480 Those answers take up a lot of resources and according to Sam Altman, 57 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,200 millions of dollars are spent to power ChatGPT's responses to users 58 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:09,440 just saying thank you, ChatGPT. But Sam says, if that's the cost of being polite to AI, 59 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,080 it's money well spent because you never know. 60 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,120 What? Well, AI might remember your kindness 61 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,080 in a few years. 62 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,320 Wait, what does that mean, Sam? Okay, quick bits. 63 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:30,840 Yeah, Synology is getting flack for requiring the use of Synology branded hard drives 64 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:35,540 in their plus line of NAS systems in order for users to access features 65 00:04:35,540 --> 00:04:38,600 like drive health reports, automatic firmware updates 66 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:43,180 and volume wide deduplication. What makes this move even more silly 67 00:04:43,180 --> 00:04:46,240 is that Synology doesn't even make their own hard drives. 68 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,040 They basically rebrand Toshiba and Seagate drives 69 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:54,160 which involves giving it a little kiss from an eccentric old detail, it's the same guy. 70 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:59,280 Discord has been sued by the state of New Jersey for violating child safety laws 71 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:05,400 and doing little to protect underage users from harassment, abuse and sexual exploitation. 72 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,440 Now Discord is testing a new age verification system 73 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,920 that involves scanning ID cards and faces 74 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,400 with the platform blurring sensitive media if it detects a young'un, 75 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,040 but only in Australia and the UK where recently passed legislation 76 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:26,240 requires the use of such systems. Now this comes along with privacy concerns as well 77 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,360 but other regions are considering similar legislation. 78 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,800 So AI is gonna need to get real good at spotting two kids in a trench coat 79 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:40,320 and that's no easy task, okay? We've all been fooled. After losing its search antitrust lawsuit last year 80 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,440 Google has been ruled a monopoly again in the ad tech industry this time 81 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,520 following a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice 82 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,800 and things are looking similarly not great for Metta 83 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:57,400 who's trying to argue against the FTC's assertion that they have a monopoly on social media. 84 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,080 Zuck has testified saying TikTok counts as a competitor 85 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:05,160 but the FTC's arguing TikTok's more like a content delivery service. 86 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,400 If we're talking truly social media, only Snapchat 87 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,240 and a platform nobody's ever heard of, me, we qualify 88 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,600 because they focus on sharing between family and friends 89 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,840 and activity that has gone way, way down on Metta's apps. 90 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:24,480 Metta's Cheryl Sandberg actually argued that ads 91 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,560 can be as high quality or even better than organic content 92 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,840 and users want to see them. So look, I don't even know if the monopoly argument holds here 93 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:35,880 but I think we all know Metta deserves to get cooked here anyway. 94 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:40,520 And hey, how about a nice tech story? A NASA mission called Polarimeter 95 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:45,040 to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere or PUNCH 96 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:49,600 which is just great on its own. Whose entire purpose is to fly to the sun 97 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:55,380 and take sick photos as Gizmodo puts it has begun sending said photos back. 98 00:06:55,380 --> 00:07:00,840 And yeah, to the untrained eye, they mostly look like a fridge painting by a toddler 99 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:04,560 who just discovered the color orange but this photo's been to space. 100 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,120 And so has Katy Perry now. So I guess that's kind of whatever. 101 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:14,440 Hey, you know what is not whatever though? You coming back here on Monday for a talk link 102 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:19,280 with me and Luke talking about AI. Yeah, you didn't know I was gonna say that. 103 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,440 I'll explain everything on Monday. Okay, bye.