WEBVTT 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:08.640 All rise, the honorable court of tech news is now in session. Today's docket 00:00:05.720 --> 00:00:13.480 is full and the defendant is the entire tech industry. May God have mercy on 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:19.640 your bleeps and bloops, you computer goblins. OpenAI is killing Sora, its 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:25.120 slop video generating TikTok clone, less than 6 months after launch. Users will 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:30.280 lose access to video generation via the mobile app, website, the API, and even 00:00:27.720 --> 00:00:35.040 in ChatGPT itself. According to the Wall Street Journal, it's part of a strategic 00:00:32.360 --> 00:00:41.880 pivot to productivity tools with OpenAI merging ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:44.720 browser into one desktop super app, 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:50.320 which is likely corpo speak for C Dads 2.0 is eating our lunch and Sammy boy 00:00:47.440 --> 00:00:54.440 doesn't want to look like a dingus. Hey, you're actually a dingus either 00:00:52.160 --> 00:01:00.600 way. Sora's downloads had already plunged from 3.3 million in November to 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:03.960 just 1.1 million by February, generating 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:05.720 a grand total of 2.14 million dollars in 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:10.080 revenue. The announcement apparently prompted Disney to pull out of its 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:14.200 planned 1 billion dollar OpenAI investment, which was part of a deal 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:20.160 which would have seen over 200 Disney characters licensed for use in the Sora 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:22.480 app, which has, again, departed for the 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:26.280 great slop bucket in the sky. Disney, who was reportedly blindsided by the 00:01:24.440 --> 00:01:31.480 announcement, released a statement with all of the energy of a recent divorcee, 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:35.320 saying that they respect OpenAI's decision to exit the video generation 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:39.840 business and to shift its priorities elsewhere. A confidential source told 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:43.440 Reuters that it was a big rug pull, saying Disney wasn't informed of the 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:47.760 move beforehand despite the fact that they had been in a meeting with the 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:49.960 OpenAI team just 30 minutes before. Oof. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:54.600 Disney has said they plan on pursuing similar deals with other AI companies. 00:01:53.080 --> 00:01:59.080 That's right, girl. You were too good for him anyways. Uh, play Brit- play 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:03.479 Britney Spears' Toxic, quick. I remember that. We can't we can't. A 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:07.600 pair of landmark social media rulings were handed down this week that could 00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:12.920 set legal precedents. The first one dropped yesterday when a New Mexico jury 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:17.480 ordered Meta to pay 375 million US dollars after finding the company misled 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:20.920 parents about the safety of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The second one 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:25.680 dropped just this morning when an LA jury found Meta and YouTube negligent 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:30.760 for harming kids through addictive platform design, awarding the plaintiff 00:02:27.880 --> 00:02:34.920 3 million dollars in damages. During the New Mexico trial, Zuckerberg, seen in 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:39.080 these courtroom drawings looking like an elderly boy, and in this footage of him 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:43.040 exiting the courtroom looking like a haunted puppet. This is important 00:02:40.959 --> 00:02:47.080 details. Attempted to refute the evidence by stating that harms to 00:02:44.959 --> 00:02:52.480 children were inevitable on his platforms due to their massive user 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:55.200 bases. Yikes, dude. I guess his PR team 00:02:52.480 --> 00:03:01.239 forgot to explicitly tell him that real humans don't love it when you refer to 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:06.920 harming children as an inevitability. Meta has already stated their plans to 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:09.280 appeal both cases saying they work hard 00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:15.280 to keep people safe on our platforms. Aw, boo-hoo. I'm so sorry your 17 strike 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:19.600 safety policy didn't cut it. These rulings are seen as so significant 00:03:17.239 --> 00:03:23.720 because they reject the common Section 230 defense, which has historically 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:28.280 shielded tech companies from liability over user-generated content. As it 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:33.000 stands, neither of the cases is totally over with the LA jury deliberating on 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:37.200 punitive damages and the New Mexico case moving to a second trial in May where a 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:41.880 judge will rule on public nuisance claims, equating social platforms with 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:46.680 the weird guy who hangs out in the public square. These two cases are 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:51.440 bellwethers for a glut of similar cases waiting in the wings. So, the bleeding 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:56.040 isn't over for old Zuckercorn. It's my new favorite nickname for him. But I 00:03:53.600 --> 00:04:00.120 guess with such a massive user base, you can say it was kind of 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:04.720 inevitable. So how does that feel? ARM, the company 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:08.760 that spent 35 years licensing chip designs to basically everyone, just 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:13.680 announced that it's making its own physical chip for the first time. That's 00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:19.400 right, it's our turn now. The Switzerland of chips declared war, and 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:25.720 to the front lines they brought the ARM Neoverse V1 CPU. It's a 3-nanometer data 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:30.840 center chip with 136 cores and a 300-watt TDP. Low enough to be 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:35.880 air-cooled. Huh? We're air-cooling in here. It packs 12 channels of DDR5, 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:40.200 which is great for ARM and painful for me, since I still can't find RAM for my 00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:44.760 second channel. But happy for you though. Meta actually co-developed the 00:04:42.520 --> 00:04:48.960 chip with ARM, and they're its lead customer, and will be pairing the chip 00:04:46.440 --> 00:04:53.240 with their own custom accelerators to melt kids' brains faster than ever 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:57.680 before. ARM claims that a single air-cooled rack fits over 8,000 cores 00:04:55.960 --> 00:05:03.000 with twice the performance per rack compared to x86. A potentially 10 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:06.960 billion dollars saved per gigawatt of data center. And that's all cool and 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:10.400 like, you know, we're all very happy for ARM, but why are they starting to 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:13.960 compete with their own customers? Considering Apple, Amazon, Google, 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:18.520 Microsoft, and NVIDIA already design their own ARM-based chips. Well, when 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:24.320 asked if NVIDIA might find this move concerning, CEO Rene Haas replied, "Does 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:30.880 it piss off NVIDIA? I'd imagine it will piss off Intel and AMD more." Piss 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:34.320 off everybody. Got it. Good strategy. Hey, he could be frustrated from trying 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:38.680 to make a website without our sponsor, Squarespace. In the year 2026, 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:43.880 cyberspace has become a vast and lawless frontier. Websites lie abandoned, their 00:05:40.840 --> 00:05:45.520 CSS crumbling, their links broken. 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Aw. 00:07:06.919 --> 00:07:12.760 Well, but considering NVIDIA's RTX 4000 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:19.360 Pro with only 24 gigs of memory is priced around 1900 USD, nearly double 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:21.400 the B70, these cards are a good deal, I 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:25.800 mean, as far as RAM goes. I guess the only thing Intel is battling right now 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:29.880 is their refusal to let us play games on their best silicon. And they're battling 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:34.720 a few other things, but Wine 11 has rewritten how Linux runs Windows games 00:07:32.919 --> 00:07:40.200 at the kernel level with a new feature called NT Sync and the performance gains 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:44.640 are reportedly stupid good. According to Wine contributor and people who do a lot 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:53.280 of other things, too, CodeWeavers, we're talking 110 FPS to 860 in Dirt 3. 00:07:49.760 --> 00:07:56.200 Resident Evil 2 jumped from 26 to 77. 00:07:53.280 --> 00:08:00.840 And unlike the old Fsync/Esync workarounds, NTsync is baked into the 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:06.120 mainline Linux kernel starting at version 6.14, so any distro shipping 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:10.120 that kernel gets it automatically. Reddit users are already confirming the 00:08:07.640 --> 00:08:14.320 gains are legit. I don't know. It might be time for Microsoft to adopt a new 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:19.240 marketing slogan. Windows 11, the best way to download the OS that runs our 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:24.320 games better. AyaNeo has suspended pre-orders for its AMD Strix 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:29.120 Halo-powered next two Windows gaming handheld claiming that production costs 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:32.919 now approach twice the selling price, which already started at 2,000 bucks. 00:08:31.280 --> 00:08:37.640 AyaNeo had to make the call after storage and RAM suppliers quoted prices 00:08:35.280 --> 00:08:42.080 several times higher than before, which was obviously caused by AI data centers 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:47.120 going all hungry, hungry hippos on the global memory supply. Those scamps. 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:52.000 AyaNeo says the suspension is temporary and they may consider resuming sales if 00:08:50.280 --> 00:08:57.360 the prices come back down. But it turns out next two is the amount of decades 00:08:54.920 --> 00:09:03.280 left until you can afford RAM, I guess. The FCC just banned all new models of 00:09:00.680 --> 00:09:07.839 foreign-made consumer routers from US sales citing national security risks 00:09:05.560 --> 00:09:12.520 related to the Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks. Small problem, 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:17.760 though. Virtually every consumer router sold in the US is made overseas. Even 00:09:15.760 --> 00:09:23.280 American brands like Netgear are built in Vietnam and Taiwan. Existing models 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:27.839 can still be sold, but new models will need conditional approval from the DoD 00:09:25.760 --> 00:09:32.240 or DHS. And all this makes a ton of sense because the Typhoon hacks were 00:09:29.920 --> 00:09:36.320 largely carried out on American-made Cisco enterprise equipment, not consumer 00:09:34.640 --> 00:09:40.360 routers. But that's the way they like it. Made in America, hacked in America. 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:45.240 At least they're keeping jobs domestic. And an undergrad at Centenary College of 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:50.000 Louisiana has developed a nail polish that lets people with long fingernails 00:09:47.640 --> 00:09:54.000 actually use touch screens. Despite giving themselves a leg down in that 00:09:51.640 --> 00:09:59.880 area seemingly on purpose, the new clear coat uses a blend of taurine and a 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:02.320 stinky compound called ethanolamine 00:09:59.880 --> 00:10:05.960 ethanolamine to give nails a small electric charge. I'm a little more 00:10:04.040 --> 00:10:10.400 scared now than I was before, which could also help people with zombie 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:15.000 finger, a condition I just learned about that causes fingers to not register on 00:10:12.840 --> 00:10:20.080 touch screens. It's in moments like this that I wonder, has science gone too far? 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:25.480 Are we like Icarus flying on wings of wax too close to the sun? For what? To 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:31.000 fulfill the hubris of our fathers, Daedaluses, seeking only to serve their 00:10:28.040 --> 00:10:35.760 own egos? Is there no rest or respite? No moment where we say we have come far 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:39.800 enough and turn back from the precipice of innovation? 00:10:37.400 --> 00:10:44.720 Or will we be forever pushed out beyond the edges of the map by those behind us 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:49.720 clamoring to see territory still unclaimed? 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:51.760 For here be monsters, my friends. And I 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:58.000 fear that those monsters are us. 00:10:55.320 --> 00:11:03.480 And court is adjourned. The tech industry has been found guilty on all 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:05.320 counts and sentenced to being discussed 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:12.120 again on Friday. Uh the defendant showed no remorse. 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:12.120 Never does.