WEBVTT 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 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:07.340 so we gotta move fast, let's go! The White House claimed this week 00:00:07.340 --> 00:00:13.420 that at least some imports from China are now subject to a 245% tariff, 00:00:13.420 --> 00:00:16.700 leaving some analysts wondering whether this was a typo. 00:00:16.700 --> 00:00:21.000 But it appears that 245% includes previous tariffs 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.380 levied against China during the preceding Trump and Biden administrations 00:00:25.380 --> 00:00:30.060 and the current administration is now including them on the executive orders because hey, 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? 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, 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:45.900 DHgate and Taobao, which were the top downloaded 00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:49.620 free shopping apps on the iOS app store at the time of writing. 00:00:49.620 --> 00:00:52.780 This follows also Chinese shopping app, Timu 00:00:52.780 --> 00:00:57.460 and Xi'en, which is now based in Singapore, announcing price hikes in the wake 00:00:57.500 --> 00:01:02.300 of the Trump administration's tariffs. Some reports indicate users are turning to Taobao 00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:05.780 and DHgate to buy luxury items direct from China, 00:01:05.780 --> 00:01:08.940 which usually sell for way more after they've gone 00:01:08.940 --> 00:01:12.300 to some brand HQ in Europe for final packaging 00:01:12.300 --> 00:01:15.940 and a little kiss of approval from an eccentric old Italian guy. 00:01:18.940 --> 00:01:22.620 Send it away! But there is some good tariff related news. 00:01:22.620 --> 00:01:25.660 Nintendo announced US and Canada pre-orders 00:01:25.660 --> 00:01:29.140 for the Switch 2 will go live on April 24th 00:01:29.140 --> 00:01:33.780 and the company confirmed they are not hiking the price of the console or its games. 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:38.580 Just its accessories. Joy-Cons are like a hundred bucks and a dock is 120? 00:01:38.580 --> 00:01:43.260 Hey, I mean, what? Well, you're not a real fan. The little strap is $14. 00:01:43.260 --> 00:01:47.540 Okay, Google is getting kind of aggressive with their Gemini feature rollouts. 00:01:47.540 --> 00:01:51.780 Free users can now use Gemini Live's screen sharing feature 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. 00:01:58.180 --> 00:02:01.620 The feature lets you talk to Gemini while showing it your camera feed 00:02:01.620 --> 00:02:04.940 like you're on a video call. And it's basically the same interface used 00:02:04.940 --> 00:02:08.020 by the prototype smart glasses Google recently demoed 00:02:08.020 --> 00:02:14.180 at a TED conference. If that's even real, I'm so tired. 00:02:14.260 --> 00:02:17.700 Look, don't think about it, especially if you're a college student in the US 00:02:17.700 --> 00:02:23.300 because Google's giving all of you free access to Gemini Advanced until June 30th. 00:02:23.300 --> 00:02:26.700 So you can get all that help from AI to write your papers for you 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, 00:02:32.940 --> 00:02:37.020 morning, something. This really smells like the give every kid a Chromebook 00:02:37.020 --> 00:02:40.140 and now they're used to it and will buy another Chromebook program. 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 00:02:43.900 --> 00:02:48.820 some cool stuff about ChatGPT's newest biggest reasoning model, O3. 00:02:48.820 --> 00:02:51.820 Turns out it's really good at GeoGuessr, 00:02:51.860 --> 00:02:55.100 even correctly identifying a specific library 00:02:55.100 --> 00:02:59.140 based on a picture of books on the shelf. 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? 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 00:03:09.860 --> 00:03:15.660 in its internal chain of thought, which seems to be related to the recent ChatGPT update 00:03:15.660 --> 00:03:19.940 causing it to reference all of your previous chats when answering a prompt. 00:03:19.940 --> 00:03:23.600 And this feels even weirder than addressing you directly by name 00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:27.640 because it's like asking someone a question and then they're like, sure. 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. 00:03:32.920 --> 00:03:36.040 Oh, he's looking at me right now with his stupid face. 00:03:36.040 --> 00:03:39.120 This guy, his name's Riley, really needs a haircut. 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:43.280 I can hear you. Another fun fact is that O3 and reasoning models 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:46.600 in general hallucinate more than previous models, 00:03:46.600 --> 00:03:50.720 according to both OpenAI and AI Research Lab Transluse 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:55.040 because they make more claims both accurate and inaccurate. 00:03:55.040 --> 00:03:58.480 Those answers take up a lot of resources and according to Sam Altman, 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:03.200 millions of dollars are spent to power ChatGPT's responses to users 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, 00:04:09.440 --> 00:04:13.080 it's money well spent because you never know. 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:18.120 What? Well, AI might remember your kindness 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:20.080 in a few years. 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:25.320 Wait, what does that mean, Sam? Okay, quick bits. 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:30.840 Yeah, Synology is getting flack for requiring the use of Synology branded hard drives 00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:35.540 in their plus line of NAS systems in order for users to access features 00:04:35.540 --> 00:04:38.600 like drive health reports, automatic firmware updates 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:43.180 and volume wide deduplication. What makes this move even more silly 00:04:43.180 --> 00:04:46.240 is that Synology doesn't even make their own hard drives. 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:50.040 They basically rebrand Toshiba and Seagate drives 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. 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:59.280 Discord has been sued by the state of New Jersey for violating child safety laws 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:05.400 and doing little to protect underage users from harassment, abuse and sexual exploitation. 00:05:05.400 --> 00:05:08.440 Now Discord is testing a new age verification system 00:05:08.440 --> 00:05:11.920 that involves scanning ID cards and faces 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:16.400 with the platform blurring sensitive media if it detects a young'un, 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:21.040 but only in Australia and the UK where recently passed legislation 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:26.240 requires the use of such systems. Now this comes along with privacy concerns as well 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.360 but other regions are considering similar legislation. 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 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 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:45.440 Google has been ruled a monopoly again in the ad tech industry this time 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:48.520 following a lawsuit from the US Department of Justice 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:51.800 and things are looking similarly not great for Metta 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. 00:05:57.400 --> 00:06:01.080 Zuck has testified saying TikTok counts as a competitor 00:06:01.080 --> 00:06:05.160 but the FTC's arguing TikTok's more like a content delivery service. 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:09.400 If we're talking truly social media, only Snapchat 00:06:09.400 --> 00:06:13.240 and a platform nobody's ever heard of, me, we qualify 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.600 because they focus on sharing between family and friends 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:20.840 and activity that has gone way, way down on Metta's apps. 00:06:20.840 --> 00:06:24.480 Metta's Cheryl Sandberg actually argued that ads 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:28.560 can be as high quality or even better than organic content 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 00:06:32.840 --> 00:06:35.880 but I think we all know Metta deserves to get cooked here anyway. 00:06:35.880 --> 00:06:40.520 And hey, how about a nice tech story? A NASA mission called Polarimeter 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:45.040 to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere or PUNCH 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:49.600 which is just great on its own. Whose entire purpose is to fly to the sun 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:55.380 and take sick photos as Gizmodo puts it has begun sending said photos back. 00:06:55.380 --> 00:07:00.840 And yeah, to the untrained eye, they mostly look like a fridge painting by a toddler 00:07:00.840 --> 00:07:04.560 who just discovered the color orange but this photo's been to space. 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:08.120 And so has Katy Perry now. So I guess that's kind of whatever. 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 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. 00:07:20.440 --> 00:07:22.440 I'll explain everything on Monday. Okay, bye.