WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.960 Sure, Halloween's Michael Myers' wordlessly standing his big ass in your 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:11.400 yard staring at you is pretty scary, but not nearly as scary as me silently 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:13.960 standing here not telling you the tech news. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:20.240 Oh, that's too freaky. I got to tell you some tech news. YouTube will begin 00:00:17.400 --> 00:00:25.520 automatically upscaling all videos under 1080p from SD to HD, the company 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:30.240 announced this morning with plans to support upscaling to 4K in the future. 00:00:28.360 --> 00:00:34.840 But unlike their experiment earlier this year sharpening YouTube shorts to an 00:00:32.360 --> 00:00:40.120 uncomfortably fine edge, YouTube is graciously allowing creators to opt out 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:45.160 of having their content upscaled as well as letting viewers toggle between 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:49.800 original resolution and the new super resolution. Today, YouTube also 00:00:47.400 --> 00:00:53.240 announced a few policy changes. For one, they'll soon expand their prohibitions 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:59.560 on content that directs viewers to online gambling sites. Before, doing 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:01.680 this was okay if the stuff being gambled 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:06.520 was digital like video game skins, cosmetics, and NFTs. Under the new 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:10.360 rules, that will not be allowed and neither will be watching video game 00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:14.880 content with lifelike human characters committing large-scale violence against 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:19.080 unarmed people or torturing someone if you're under 18. That 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:23.000 that's just standard adult stuff. Finally, it seems like YouTube will 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:28.680 definitively solve the debate over whether Kratos or a transhuman 40K space 00:01:26.360 --> 00:01:34.160 marine can really be called a human. YouTube's also age restricting content 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:38.760 that depicts casino-style games. Unfortunately, that means if you've got 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:43.080 a hankering for social gambling content, you're going to have to go to a sporting 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:45.720 event, turn on the TV, or visit any 00:01:43.080 --> 00:01:50.080 other website. Hey. Hey, you want to bet you can find a 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:54.080 gambling ad in under a minute? Please bet me. 00:01:51.800 --> 00:01:59.280 I need this. NVIDIA hit a massive milestone today by becoming the first 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:02.280 company ever to reach a five trillion 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.280 dollar market valuation. Last I remember 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:08.440 they hit three trillion. Did they skip four and went right to That's what? 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:13.120 Anyway, it's a figure roughly on par with the entire German economy. This 00:02:10.920 --> 00:02:17.480 historic jump followed a series of announcements at the company's GTC 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:23.160 conference where CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the new IGX Thor processor 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:27.440 meant to help power a physical AI platform, which is doing absolutely 00:02:25.720 --> 00:02:32.160 nothing to help my personal fear of terminators. Years of therapy, wasted. 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:38.760 The company then revealed a plan to deploy a fleet of robotaxis with Uber by 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:42.520 2027 and a one billion dollar investment 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:45.080 in Nokia to integrate AI into 6G 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:49.040 networking. Huh. Whatever that means. They also announced a collaborative 00:02:46.920 --> 00:02:53.720 effort with Oracle and the US Department of Energy to build what will be 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:57.360 America's largest supercomputer. Now still feeling the need to pack in even 00:02:55.760 --> 00:03:03.440 more announcements that aren't about gaming, NVIDIA introduced NVQ Link, 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:07.760 which is like their GPU interconnection system NVLink but with a Q in it 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:11.680 because that's just a little quirky, but also because it lets classical computer 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:17.480 servers talk good with quantum computers. 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:17.480 So I guess it's really a bit quirky. 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:25.600 See you later, guys. >> [clears throat] >> OpenAI has officially completed its 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:28.000 long-awaited evolution from cap profit 00:03:25.600 --> 00:03:34.280 to just profit. The company says that its new for-profit public benefit 00:03:30.760 --> 00:03:36.640 corporation will still be guided by its 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:41.400 nonprofit board, you know, like how a parent guides their kid who just bought 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:46.120 a mid-80s GMC Jimmy with their allowance. 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:49.840 Do any of you know what that is? What is a GMC Jimmy? I think it's just a weird 00:03:48.440 --> 00:03:55.680 little car. Apparently, we're a channel that makes a 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:58.120 good amount of obscure car jokes now. 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:04.560 I'll allow it. As part of the shakeup, Microsoft trimmed its ownership stake in 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:08.480 OpenAI to 27% while OpenAI themselves 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:11.480 pledged a casual 250 billion dollars in 00:04:08.480 --> 00:04:13.400 extra Azure cloud spending. Both sides 00:04:11.480 --> 00:04:16.920 have taken to calling this development a natural evolution, which is probably 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:21.560 their way of telling us that they they're still best friends. This is how 00:04:18.840 --> 00:04:25.960 it always goes with most friendships. This will ensure that companies can keep 00:04:23.320 --> 00:04:31.200 using ChatGPT to replace humans whose jobs were, as Sam Altman said in a 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:32.360 recent interview, not real work. That's 00:04:31.200 --> 00:04:36.200 all right though because at least with their new PayPal integration, these now 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:40.360 jobless people will have an even easier time spending their last remaining 00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:43.920 dollars to buy furniture through ChatGPT's instant checkout feature. 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Well, it appears one thing these massive job cuts aren't 00:05:47.960 --> 00:05:56.320 keeping nimble and strong is Amazon's MMO New World, which appears to be dead. 00:05:53.600 --> 00:06:00.160 Amazon Game Studios informed fans that the game's recently launched season 10 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:04.640 and Nighthaven updates would be the game's final content releases, that 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:09.520 Nighthaven is now free, and that they are committed to keeping the game 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:11.520 servers going through 2026. Amazon's 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:16.200 Beth Galletti says that with these layoffs, Amazon is making exciting bold 00:06:14.280 --> 00:06:21.869 bets. And you know I can get behind that. I love a good bet. Please make a 00:06:18.840 --> 00:06:22.080 bet with me, Amazon. I need this. 00:06:21.869 --> 00:06:28.920 >> [laughter] >> Don't go away. Where are you going? 1X Technologies is now taking pre-orders 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:32.400 for a humanoid home robot called Neo 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:34.360 shipping in 2026 and priced at $20,000 00:06:32.400 --> 00:06:38.440 or $500 a month with a subscription, very affordable. Neo is designed to 00:06:36.280 --> 00:06:42.760 tackle chores like folding laundry, tidying rooms, fetching items, and 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:48.920 turning lights on and off with basic autonomy up front and more complex tasks 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:52.320 handled via expert mode, which means a 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:55.160 human teleoperator from 1X takes over 00:06:52.320 --> 00:06:59.080 the robot remotely with your permission so that so it can learn. 00:06:57.200 --> 00:07:03.720 It needs to learn. Aside from the weirdness of allowing some stranger to 00:07:01.320 --> 00:07:08.920 remotely get inside your space, you'll also be sharing data from your home so 00:07:06.280 --> 00:07:13.160 Neo's AI real-world training can improve. Still, it's hard to be mad at 00:07:11.280 --> 00:07:17.880 this button-eyed little weirdo. Just look at the Step Brothers poster-style 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:21.960 portrait of Neo on 1X's website. Grandpa-befriending, 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:24.800 turtleneck-sweater-wearing mother already got me by the heartstrings. 00:07:24.095 --> 00:07:31.760 >> [laughter] >> 500 bucks bucks a month is nothing. DRAM prices are set to soar by as much as 50% 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:36.560 and according to a report from Digitimes, major data center customers 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:41.200 in the US and China are only receiving about 70% of their memory orders. 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:45.520 Apparently, this issue is being driven by booming AI workloads that are 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:50.080 diverting RAM production capacity towards more advanced memory production 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:55.200 leaving conventional DDR5 supplies tight. Similarly, according to Korea's 00:07:52.480 --> 00:08:00.640 New Daily, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Kioxia are running their SSD 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:05.160 production lines at full capacity yet high-capacity SSDs of 8 terabytes and 00:08:02.880 --> 00:08:09.800 higher are facing delivery delays of over a year. Now, I'm not saying you 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:13.600 should switch your Tesla into Mad Max mode and rip over to your nearest PC 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:18.080 shop to scoop up RAM and SSDs like they're 3,000 liters of the crucial 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:22.960 resource guzzoline, but maybe. China has officially launched 00:08:20.320 --> 00:08:27.840 the world's first wind-powered undersea data center combining renewable energy 00:08:25.880 --> 00:08:32.320 with deep-sea cooling to reduce emissions and power costs. The facility 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:36.760 is located off the coast of the Hainan province where it has easy access to a 00:08:34.280 --> 00:08:41.159 set of offshore wind turbines to supply electricity to the center and it allows 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:46.440 the ocean to be used as its giant heat sink. It's all for us. Developers say 00:08:43.800 --> 00:08:50.520 the setup could cut energy use by 40% compared to land-based centers and plans 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:54.760 are already in motion for more data centers of this type. Kind of makes you 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:58.960 wonder though, one wrong cable tug and someone might be getting a seriously wet 00:08:56.760 --> 00:09:03.760 tech support ticket. And xAI has launched Grokipedia 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:09.080 fulfilling Elon Musk's dream of replacing Wikipedia by apparently 00:09:06.760 --> 00:09:14.200 copying huge chunks of Wikipedia. Reports show the site replicates text 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:19.120 from Wikipedia nearly word for word in some instances, but guys, Wikipedia 00:09:16.520 --> 00:09:23.200 isn't trustworthy, okay? Instead, we should trust a chatbot that recently 00:09:20.880 --> 00:09:28.560 mistook a US Border Patrol Chief for the artist Cindy Sherman. It doesn't know. 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:33.000 Between plagiarism and identity crises, Grok's looking less like Wikipedia 2.0 00:09:31.400 --> 00:09:37.200 and more like Clippy with confidence issues. I'm so confident we'll be seeing 00:09:35.400 --> 00:09:41.000 you on Friday for more tech news, I'm going to bet on it. Please take it. 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:45.320 Also, here's a fun fact about John Carpenter's Halloween. Despite being set 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:50.760 during fall in Illinois, the film was actually shot during springtime 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:54.600 in California. Wow, must have been warm in that costume. Okay, bye now.