{"video_id":"mW6iU88TFIM","title":"YouTube Didn't Even Ask First...","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-11-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":593,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":6.96,"text":"Sure, Halloween's Michael Myers' wordlessly standing his big ass in your","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.4,"end_s":11.4,"text":"yard staring at you is pretty scary, but not nearly as scary as me silently","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.2,"end_s":13.96,"text":"standing here not telling you the tech news.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.0,"end_s":20.24,"text":"Oh, that's too freaky. I got to tell you some tech news. 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Please bet me.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":111.8,"end_s":119.28,"text":"I need this. NVIDIA hit a massive milestone today by becoming the first","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":116.12,"end_s":122.28,"text":"company ever to reach a five trillion","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":119.28,"end_s":124.28,"text":"dollar market valuation. Last I remember","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":122.28,"end_s":128.44,"text":"they hit three trillion. Did they skip four and went right to That's what?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":126.2,"end_s":133.12,"text":"Anyway, it's a figure roughly on par with the entire German economy. 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Now still feeling the need to pack in even","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":175.76,"end_s":183.44,"text":"more announcements that aren't about gaming, NVIDIA introduced NVQ Link,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.08,"end_s":187.76,"text":"which is like their GPU interconnection system NVLink but with a Q in it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":186.08,"end_s":191.68,"text":"because that's just a little quirky, but also because it lets classical computer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":189.44,"end_s":197.48,"text":"servers talk good with quantum computers.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":193.0,"end_s":197.48,"text":"So I guess it's really a bit quirky.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":198.48,"end_s":205.6,"text":"See you later, guys. >> [clears throat] >> OpenAI has officially completed its","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":202.6,"end_s":208.0,"text":"long-awaited evolution from cap profit","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":205.6,"end_s":214.28,"text":"to just profit. The company says that its new for-profit public benefit","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":210.76,"end_s":216.64,"text":"corporation will still be guided by its","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":214.28,"end_s":221.4,"text":"nonprofit board, you know, like how a parent guides their kid who just bought","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":218.8,"end_s":226.12,"text":"a mid-80s GMC Jimmy with their allowance.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":223.8,"end_s":229.84,"text":"Do any of you know what that is? What is a GMC Jimmy? I think it's just a weird","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":228.44,"end_s":235.68,"text":"little car. Apparently, we're a channel that makes a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":232.28,"end_s":238.12,"text":"good amount of obscure car jokes now.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":235.68,"end_s":244.56,"text":"I'll allow it. 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Start","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":321.6,"end_s":327.2,"text":"building your website today and get 10% off your first purchase at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":324.68,"end_s":331.48,"text":"squarespace.com/techlinked. The Halloween franchise is at reboots,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":329.52,"end_s":335.68,"text":"remakes, and alternate timelines, all of varying quality but with the quick bits,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":336.92,"end_s":341.56,"text":"you know they're always going to kick some ass.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":340.0,"end_s":346.28,"text":"Amazon says they're keeping their company nimble and strong by firing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":343.8,"end_s":350.08,"text":"14,000 people. Well, it appears one thing these massive job cuts aren't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":347.96,"end_s":356.32,"text":"keeping nimble and strong is Amazon's MMO New World, which appears to be dead.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":353.6,"end_s":360.16,"text":"Amazon Game Studios informed fans that the game's recently launched season 10","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":358.6,"end_s":364.64,"text":"and Nighthaven updates would be the game's final content releases, that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":362.24,"end_s":369.52,"text":"Nighthaven is now free, and that they are committed to keeping the game","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.8,"end_s":371.52,"text":"servers going through 2026. Amazon's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":369.52,"end_s":376.2,"text":"Beth Galletti says that with these layoffs, Amazon is making exciting bold","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":374.28,"end_s":381.869,"text":"bets. And you know I can get behind that. I love a good bet. Please make a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":378.84,"end_s":382.08,"text":"bet with me, Amazon. I need this.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":381.869,"end_s":388.92,"text":">> [laughter] >> Don't go away. Where are you going? 1X Technologies is now taking pre-orders","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":385.8,"end_s":392.4,"text":"for a humanoid home robot called Neo","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":388.92,"end_s":394.36,"text":"shipping in 2026 and priced at $20,000","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":392.4,"end_s":398.44,"text":"or $500 a month with a subscription, very affordable. Neo is designed to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":396.28,"end_s":402.76,"text":"tackle chores like folding laundry, tidying rooms, fetching items, and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":400.36,"end_s":408.92,"text":"turning lights on and off with basic autonomy up front and more complex tasks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":405.72,"end_s":412.32,"text":"handled via expert mode, which means a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":408.92,"end_s":415.16,"text":"human teleoperator from 1X takes over","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":412.32,"end_s":419.08,"text":"the robot remotely with your permission so that so it can learn.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":417.2,"end_s":423.72,"text":"It needs to learn. Aside from the weirdness of allowing some stranger to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":421.32,"end_s":428.92,"text":"remotely get inside your space, you'll also be sharing data from your home so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":426.28,"end_s":433.16,"text":"Neo's AI real-world training can improve. Still, it's hard to be mad at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":431.28,"end_s":437.88,"text":"this button-eyed little weirdo. Just look at the Step Brothers poster-style","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":435.2,"end_s":441.96,"text":"portrait of Neo on 1X's website. Grandpa-befriending,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":439.72,"end_s":444.8,"text":"turtleneck-sweater-wearing mother already got me by the heartstrings.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":444.095,"end_s":451.76,"text":">> [laughter] >> 500 bucks bucks a month is nothing. DRAM prices are set to soar by as much as 50%","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":450.48,"end_s":456.56,"text":"and according to a report from Digitimes, major data center customers","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":454.4,"end_s":461.2,"text":"in the US and China are only receiving about 70% of their memory orders.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":459.56,"end_s":465.52,"text":"Apparently, this issue is being driven by booming AI workloads that are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":463.44,"end_s":470.08,"text":"diverting RAM production capacity towards more advanced memory production","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":467.72,"end_s":475.2,"text":"leaving conventional DDR5 supplies tight. 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China has officially launched","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":500.32,"end_s":507.84,"text":"the world's first wind-powered undersea data center combining renewable energy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":505.88,"end_s":512.32,"text":"with deep-sea cooling to reduce emissions and power costs. The facility","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":510.04,"end_s":516.76,"text":"is located off the coast of the Hainan province where it has easy access to a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":514.28,"end_s":521.159,"text":"set of offshore wind turbines to supply electricity to the center and it allows","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":519.0,"end_s":526.44,"text":"the ocean to be used as its giant heat sink. It's all for us. Developers say","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":523.8,"end_s":530.52,"text":"the setup could cut energy use by 40% compared to land-based centers and plans","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":528.96,"end_s":534.76,"text":"are already in motion for more data centers of this type. Kind of makes you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":532.32,"end_s":538.96,"text":"wonder though, one wrong cable tug and someone might be getting a seriously wet","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":536.76,"end_s":543.76,"text":"tech support ticket. And xAI has launched Grokipedia","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":541.84,"end_s":549.08,"text":"fulfilling Elon Musk's dream of replacing Wikipedia by apparently","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":546.76,"end_s":554.2,"text":"copying huge chunks of Wikipedia. Reports show the site replicates text","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":551.6,"end_s":559.12,"text":"from Wikipedia nearly word for word in some instances, but guys, Wikipedia","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":556.52,"end_s":563.2,"text":"isn't trustworthy, okay? Instead, we should trust a chatbot that recently","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":560.88,"end_s":568.56,"text":"mistook a US Border Patrol Chief for the artist Cindy Sherman. It doesn't know.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":566.08,"end_s":573.0,"text":"Between plagiarism and identity crises, Grok's looking less like Wikipedia 2.0","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":571.4,"end_s":577.2,"text":"and more like Clippy with confidence issues. I'm so confident we'll be seeing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":575.4,"end_s":581.0,"text":"you on Friday for more tech news, I'm going to bet on it. Please take it.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":578.88,"end_s":585.32,"text":"Also, here's a fun fact about John Carpenter's Halloween. Despite being set","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":583.32,"end_s":590.76,"text":"during fall in Illinois, the film was actually shot during springtime","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":587.84,"end_s":594.6,"text":"in California. Wow, must have been warm in that costume. Okay, bye now.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Sure, Halloween's Michael Myers' wordlessly standing his big ass in your yard staring at you is pretty scary, but not nearly as scary as me silently standing here not telling you the tech news. Oh, that's too freaky. I got to tell you some tech news. YouTube will begin automatically upscaling all videos under 1080p from SD to HD, the company announced this morning with plans to support upscaling to 4K in the future. But unlike their experiment earlier this year sharpening YouTube shorts to an uncomfortably fine edge, YouTube is graciously allowing creators to opt out of having their content upscaled as well as letting viewers toggle between original resolution and the new super resolution. Today, YouTube also announced a few policy changes. For one, they'll soon expand their prohibitions on content that directs viewers to online gambling sites. Before, doing this was okay if the stuff being gambled was digital like video game skins, cosmetics, and NFTs. Under the new rules, that will not be allowed and neither will be watching video game content with lifelike human characters committing large-scale violence against unarmed people or torturing someone if you're under 18. That that's just standard adult stuff. Finally, it seems like YouTube will definitively solve the debate over whether Kratos or a transhuman 40K space marine can really be called a human. YouTube's also age restricting content that depicts casino-style games. Unfortunately, that means if you've got a hankering for social gambling content, you're going to have to go to a sporting event, turn on the TV, or visit any other website. Hey. Hey, you want to bet you can find a gambling ad in under a minute? Please bet me. I need this. NVIDIA hit a massive milestone today by becoming the first company ever to reach a five trillion dollar market valuation. Last I remember they hit three trillion. Did they skip four and went right to That's what? Anyway, it's a figure roughly on par with the entire German economy. This historic jump followed a series of announcements at the company's GTC conference where CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the new IGX Thor processor meant to help power a physical AI platform, which is doing absolutely nothing to help my personal fear of terminators. Years of therapy, wasted. The company then revealed a plan to deploy a fleet of robotaxis with Uber by 2027 and a one billion dollar investment in Nokia to integrate AI into 6G networking. Huh. Whatever that means. They also announced a collaborative effort with Oracle and the US Department of Energy to build what will be America's largest supercomputer. Now still feeling the need to pack in even more announcements that aren't about gaming, NVIDIA introduced NVQ Link, which is like their GPU interconnection system NVLink but with a Q in it because that's just a little quirky, but also because it lets classical computer servers talk good with quantum computers. So I guess it's really a bit quirky. See you later, guys. >> [clears throat] >> OpenAI has officially completed its long-awaited evolution from cap profit to just profit. The company says that its new for-profit public benefit corporation will still be guided by its nonprofit board, you know, like how a parent guides their kid who just bought a mid-80s GMC Jimmy with their allowance. Do any of you know what that is? What is a GMC Jimmy? I think it's just a weird little car. Apparently, we're a channel that makes a good amount of obscure car jokes now. I'll allow it. As part of the shakeup, Microsoft trimmed its ownership stake in OpenAI to 27% while OpenAI themselves pledged a casual 250 billion dollars in extra Azure cloud spending. Both sides have taken to calling this development a natural evolution, which is probably their way of telling us that they they're still best friends. This is how it always goes with most friendships. This will ensure that companies can keep using ChatGPT to replace humans whose jobs were, as Sam Altman said in a recent interview, not real work. That's all right though because at least with their new PayPal integration, these now jobless people will have an even easier time spending their last remaining dollars to buy furniture through ChatGPT's instant checkout feature. If you ask me, they should spend those on our sponsor, Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that empowers anyone to build a beautiful, more personalized website tailor-made for whatever vibe you're going for. When we used it for linusmediagroup.com, that vibe was I like computers! And I think it worked. You too can use Squarespace's two decades of industry-leading design expertise and cutting-edge design intelligence AI to unlock your strongest creative potential and your earning potential because Squarespace payments is the easiest way to start managing all your payments in one place. With just a few clicks, start receiving payments right away through popular methods like Klarna, Apple Pay, and ClearPay. Start building your website today and get 10% off your first purchase at squarespace.com/techlinked. The Halloween franchise is at reboots, remakes, and alternate timelines, all of varying quality but with the quick bits, you know they're always going to kick some ass. Amazon says they're keeping their company nimble and strong by firing 14,000 people. Well, it appears one thing these massive job cuts aren't keeping nimble and strong is Amazon's MMO New World, which appears to be dead. Amazon Game Studios informed fans that the game's recently launched season 10 and Nighthaven updates would be the game's final content releases, that Nighthaven is now free, and that they are committed to keeping the game servers going through 2026. Amazon's Beth Galletti says that with these layoffs, Amazon is making exciting bold bets. And you know I can get behind that. I love a good bet. Please make a bet with me, Amazon. I need this. >> [laughter] >> Don't go away. Where are you going? 1X Technologies is now taking pre-orders for a humanoid home robot called Neo shipping in 2026 and priced at $20,000 or $500 a month with a subscription, very affordable. Neo is designed to tackle chores like folding laundry, tidying rooms, fetching items, and turning lights on and off with basic autonomy up front and more complex tasks handled via expert mode, which means a human teleoperator from 1X takes over the robot remotely with your permission so that so it can learn. It needs to learn. Aside from the weirdness of allowing some stranger to remotely get inside your space, you'll also be sharing data from your home so Neo's AI real-world training can improve. Still, it's hard to be mad at this button-eyed little weirdo. Just look at the Step Brothers poster-style portrait of Neo on 1X's website. Grandpa-befriending, turtleneck-sweater-wearing mother already got me by the heartstrings. >> [laughter] >> 500 bucks bucks a month is nothing. DRAM prices are set to soar by as much as 50% and according to a report from Digitimes, major data center customers in the US and China are only receiving about 70% of their memory orders. Apparently, this issue is being driven by booming AI workloads that are diverting RAM production capacity towards more advanced memory production leaving conventional DDR5 supplies tight. Similarly, according to Korea's New Daily, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Kioxia are running their SSD production lines at full capacity yet high-capacity SSDs of 8 terabytes and higher are facing delivery delays of over a year. Now, I'm not saying you should switch your Tesla into Mad Max mode and rip over to your nearest PC shop to scoop up RAM and SSDs like they're 3,000 liters of the crucial resource guzzoline, but maybe. China has officially launched the world's first wind-powered undersea data center combining renewable energy with deep-sea cooling to reduce emissions and power costs. The facility is located off the coast of the Hainan province where it has easy access to a set of offshore wind turbines to supply electricity to the center and it allows the ocean to be used as its giant heat sink. It's all for us. Developers say the setup could cut energy use by 40% compared to land-based centers and plans are already in motion for more data centers of this type. Kind of makes you wonder though, one wrong cable tug and someone might be getting a seriously wet tech support ticket. And xAI has launched Grokipedia fulfilling Elon Musk's dream of replacing Wikipedia by apparently copying huge chunks of Wikipedia. Reports show the site replicates text from Wikipedia nearly word for word in some instances, but guys, Wikipedia isn't trustworthy, okay? Instead, we should trust a chatbot that recently mistook a US Border Patrol Chief for the artist Cindy Sherman. It doesn't know. Between plagiarism and identity crises, Grok's looking less like Wikipedia 2.0 and more like Clippy with confidence issues. I'm so confident we'll be seeing you on Friday for more tech news, I'm going to bet on it. Please take it. Also, here's a fun fact about John Carpenter's Halloween. Despite being set during fall in Illinois, the film was actually shot during springtime in California. Wow, must have been warm in that costume. Okay, bye now."}