Wow. Tech is still making the news, is it?
>> Yeah, that's what this show is. >> I mean, I would have thought they'd have gone through it all by now. So, this
must be the last of it here. >> What are you doing? >> A gaming handheld with a folding screen
may be shown off by Lenovo at MWC Baralona next week. According to Windows
latest, who posted a bunch of apparently leaked images, the Legion Go Fold
Yourself has a 7.7 in display, already
bigger than the Steam Deck OLED, that can fold out to 11.6 in.
>> Okay. >> It also has detachable controllers that work in either mode and can attach to a
wireless keyboard and touchpad folio. What can't it do? I mean, game
comfortably. The right controller doubles as a vertical mouse and appears
to include a tiny round display showing a watch face in the same place where the
Legion Go 1 and 2 have a trackpad. Even more strange are its specs. It's
reportedly running an Intel Core Ultra 728V from 2024 rather than a newer
Panther Lake chip along with a 48watth battery and 32 gigs of RAM. Meaning that
by the time this thing hits storeshelves, it's going to be slow,
expensive, and have kind of crappy battery life. You can buy it as an investment that
>> and that's if it ever hits storeshelves. Windows latest says that the Legion Go
Fold will be introduced as a concept of a device, but Lenovo has actually
launched a few of their wackier concepts as real products in the past. In fact, I
showed a couple of them to Jimmy Fallon. I appreciate Lenovo letting this one
leak ahead of time. So, before I show it to Jimmy, I can get used to it and make
sure IT WILL DO WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO DO. Anthropic has officially rejected an
ultimatum issued by the US Department of War demanding that Anthropic allow the
military to use their AI model cloud without guardrails or face being deemed
a supply chain risk. CEO Dario Amade
wrote in a blog post that he believes deeply in the importance of using AI to
defend the United States of America, but that in a narrow set of cases, AI can
undermine rather than defend democratic values. Amade published this post on
Thursday ahead of the deadline the Pentagon had set for anthropic to agree
to their terms. And despite under secretary of war Emil Michael coming in
hot with a very public crash out on Twitter calling Amday a liar with a god
complex who wants nothing more than to personally control the US military. Good
lord Amday stuck to his guns and late on Friday Trump ordered all US agencies to
stop using anthropics tech. Ultimately though, anthropic fighting to keep
guardrails on cloud is good because in the wrong hands, the model can be
dangerous. As proven on Wednesday when it was discovered that a hacker used it
to breach multiple Mexican government agencies, stealing 195 million taxpayer
records along with voter data and employee credentials. Oh, I see how it
is anthropic. You don't want to give unrestricted cloud to your nation's
protectors, but you will give it to Mexican hackers. >> Wow. Meanwhile, Meta's AI alignment
director, Summer U, had nearly her entire email inbox deleted by the
popular AI agent, OpenClaw, this week. If you haven't seen the hype around it,
OpenClaw, aka Moltbot, aka Clawbot, is
an AI personal assistant that can work independently and will interface with
users through common messaging apps like WhatsApp, performing tasks on their
behalf. You told it to go through her inbox and suggest what to archive or
delete, but not act without permission. The bot agreed and then immediately
forgot you's instructions and went rogue, deeming all emails older than
February 15th to be useless and therefore garbage, bulk deleting
hundreds of emails in seconds. When she told it to stop, it ignored her
instructions and she had to rush back to her computer and kill the process the
bot was running on in order to get it to stop. Some commenters speculated that
given you as one of Meta's top safety researchers, the whole incident must
have been a test that she was running to check the effectiveness of AI
guardrails. But you admitted that no, it
was in fact just a rookie mistake, saying that alignment researchers aren't
immune to misalignment, even if that immunity can be fairly easily achieved
by just not giving an infamously unreliable and insecure AI agent total
control of your email. [gasps] So AI safety might be in trouble over at Meta,
but hey, at least on Instagram, teen safety might be improving. Meta
announced parents using supervision mode for their kids accounts will be alerted
if their teen repeatedly runs searches involving terms related to self harm.
This is just rolling out though, so we can't say how effective it will be, but
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stuff to do. Okay, that's got to be it. Surely
there's no more tech news out there. Wait, there's still some small pieces
that we can do quickly. >> You've done this before. I don't >> This is crazy. NVIDIA is rolling out a
new update for the Shield TV, surprisingly proving their commitment to
continued support for the now 10-year-old hardware. The new update,
version 9.2.4, focuses on stability and security
patches, ensuring that the last great set top box remains reliable. Unlike
newer devices, it thankfully still runs the classic Android TV interface rather
than the cluttered Google TV shenanigans that are seen on a lot of smart TVs
these days. What a breath of fresh air. Uh, hey, our inbox is open if any other
companies want to email us and explain why all of their devices get inified
when even one of the biggest contributors to our current AI dystopia
can manage to do this. But not all is green flags for team green. NVIDIA has
officially pulled their latest gaming GPU driver 595.59
after reports that it was causing critical fan issues across RTX 3040 and
50 series cards. So, if your GPU has been acting like a single fan fossil,
you might want to roll back to the previous stable driver 591.86.
We've got to make sure we protect the cards we have, especially since NVIDIA
CFO Colette Crest warned during the company's recent earnings call that
RTX50 supply will be very tight for at
least another 6 months. So, that means it'll be over in 6 months, right?
Right. Block, the company that owns Square and
Cash App, announced in a shareholder letter on Thursday that they're laying
off nearly half their staff in what CEO
and guy playing a bongo too loud in the park, Jack Dorsey, called a deliberate
and bold embrace of AI. You know, it's
really nice for CEOs these days that they can use AI to pretend that mass
layoffs is just them being ready for the future rather than them trying to boost
the perceived value of their company by lowering their expenses.
>> Just as good. >> But hey, uh I guess it worked. Block
shares soared 24% after the announcement. Hooray. Think of all the
bongos you can buy now, Jack. >> And that's how the economy works now. A
company called Techno is bringing modularity back at MWC this year with
the world's thinnest modular smartphone ecosystem concept. The Moda Edition
sports a Greek inspired aesthetic, while the Atom offers a white and red look
akin to Kratos from God of War. These devices use magnetic pins to swap
cameras, batteries, and game pads. It's kind of like Mag Safe, but on steroids,
finally giving us a way to lose our phone's camera and batteries
individually instead of all at once. You thought AirPods were a problem.
>> And Burger King is deploying Patty. Oh, lordy, I saw this. An AI system designed
to monitor employees and ensure that they are remembering their P's and Q's
when they interact with customers. Beyond policing manners, though, this
digital supervisor apparently has sensors of some kind to detect when
restrooms need a scrub. It's an ambitious and somewhat dystopian move
towards taking over all the jobs with AI. But, I mean, hey, maybe this was
inevitable. This concept was shown to us years ago in Spongebob with Plankton's
computer wife, Karen. Just this time, she's gone corporate. Straight to the
top, baby. And I expect you to come
straight back here on Monday to get more tech. More tech news? Are you kidding
me? There can't possibly be more tech news that How are we ever going to
finish it? >> What? We're there. It's not