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One does not simply learn of the tech news. It is guarded by unseen forces.

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Yet, as your host, I will venture where others would not. [laughter]

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Google is testing out an experimental new AI powered browser called Disco

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Baby. Baby isn't part of the name. >> Disco Stew is going to love this, man.

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Disco aims to retool how you browse by

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turning your messy stack of open tabs into interactive task focused mini apps

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called Gen Tabs. Powered by Google's latest Gemini 3 model to complete jobs

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for you so you can stop staring at a screen and have some free time to doom

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scroll Instagram. It's launching as a Google Labs experiment with a macOS

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weight list, but Google says insights from the experiment could eventually

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roll into products like Chrome. Because of course it will. What? Google's not

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going to force AI on the majority of users and launch a completely separate

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AI web browser named after a dead music genre.

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>> Who said disco's dead? Who said it? >> I think everybody. Open AAI certainly

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wants to prove that rumors of their death have been exaggerated. Looking to

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reclaim their edge in the AI market after Google's Gemini 3 reportedly made

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them declare a code red, the company has released GPT 5.2, its most capable model

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series yet. Apparently, GPT 5.2 shows strong benchmark gains against GPT 5.1

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and human experts and is currently beating Gemini 3 in webdev on LLM Arena

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while losing in other areas. But beware,

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OpenAI admitted that its AI models are getting so good at coding tasks that

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they could help build zeroday exploits or assist in sophisticated hacks. It's

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so dangerous. They're working with outside security experts, including a

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new advisory group, and creating special programs so cyber defense pros can use

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advanced model features responsibly. But regular people can also use it, too.

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It's probably fine. Disney fired a cease and desist at Google on Wednesday night,

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accusing it of copyright infringement on a massive scale over the tech giant's

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use of Disney IP for AI training and slop generation. Despite what a Google

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spokesperson called a long-standing and mutually beneficial relationship with

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Disney, it appears the House of Mouse is moving on because like an X on the

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rebound, they turned around, saw Open AI, and were like, "Well, let's strike a

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three-year deal that's both a licensing partnership and a big investment."

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DISNEY, WAIT. DISNEY, WAIT. I STILL LOVE YOU.

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>> What are you, Google? >> I'm Google.

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>> It's over, Google. >> No, >> you son of a Disney is putting about a

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billion dollars into OpenAI and officially allowing more than 200

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Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters to be generated in the Sora

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slop app starting in early 2026.

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Uh, okay. So, what exactly is Disney getting out of this deal? Well, they're

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getting free Chat GPT subscriptions for its workforce, integration with its

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products, and if we're lucky, they may even show fan-made AI shorts on Disney

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Plus. Wow. Both companies stress responsible

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AI use and creator protections, and their deal deliberately excludes real

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actors voices or likenesses from being used, even though those absolutely are

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already have been trained on, and you can probably do that anyway. While

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Disney CEO Bob Iger assures folks that the deal doesn't threaten creatives,

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film industry folks see it as a moment that reshapes how entertainment

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companies interact with AI licensing and copyright issues and creative labor with

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Wired saying this deal redefes the AI

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copyright war, allowing me to say in a Yoda voice begun. The copyright wars

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have I mean they already began but now it's getting real. Hey Riley, why do you

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think Yoda stopped fighting Palpatine? I I think he could have got him.

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What happened there? The US government has approved the sale of NVIDIA's H200

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AI chips to Chinese companies, reversing course after years of only allowing

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China to buy cut down H20 chips. In

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return for allowing this, the White House will take a 25% cut of H200 sales.

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A very normal and not mafia-ike thing to do at all. And if anyone says different,

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I know some real nice fishes who'd love to meet you. They need a sleeping

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partner. Uh, which is a thing. The

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thinking seems to be that sure, China will get more powerful AI chips, which

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could give them a boost in the AI race, but they're still last gen H200 chips,

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not the flagship B200. Plus, allowing

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NVIDIA to sell a lot of very expensive GPUs will help fund their R&D.

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Uh, the richest company in the world. They uh they don't have 5 trillion. It's

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a drop in the bucket. Sure, why not? Experts say the whole setup is legally

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and procedurally weird. And then there's the question of whether China even wants

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their companies buying American chips following conflicting reports on the

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matter. But NVIDIA is reportedly looking at ramping up H200 production

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regardless. Meanwhile, with the memory supply chain already stretched thin,

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memory maker SKH says it's slowing down its production of nextgen HBM4 to focus

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on the HBM3e used in H200 and B200 chips. Regular

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I can't do a Gollum impression. I'm sorry. They wrote I you believed in me

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too much. >> I don't believe in you. Handheld company Io has shown off its

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first smartphone, the Iono Pocket Play.

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Perhaps an homage to the old Sony Xperia Play. Because of course, this thing's

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also a gaming handheld. The Play's screen slides up to reveal a full set of

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physical controls, D-pad, ABXY buttons, shoulder buttons, and dual smart

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touchpads. I mean, you might have a nice set of thumbs, but you'd probably rather

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see the game than the Pocket Plays. Specs, price, and release timing are

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still unannounced as Iono is gauging interest via an upcoming Kickstarter.

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So, details like the processor, battery, and cameras are still under wraps.

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>> They're teasing us. >> A It's just shy. It doesn't want to

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show. It's just like hello. Fortnite is officially back on the Google Play Store

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in the US after a 5-year absence caused by all the stuff I talked about in this

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video. The game's return is due to Google recently settling with Epic after

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Google's last legal appeal was denied in July. Epic's Tim Sweeney must be flying

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high. Except that before anyone declared

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Epic the final boss of antirust lawsuits, Apple went ahead and scored a

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partial win of its own. It does bleed. An appeals court says Apple can still

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charge commission on purchases made outside the app store, just not as much

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or as freely as before. Whether all of this legal mudslinging was worth it in

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the end could be debated. But hey, Tim Sweeney says he's happy. And that's what

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it's all about. That's why I get up in the morning. Trump seems to be pretty

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serious about the whole one national AI law thing. A new executive order could

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potentially block states from enforcing their own AI rules, introducing plans

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for a new litigation task force whose job is to review any AI laws made at a

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state level and change the one they don't like. Once again, normal

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and totally fine. This probably doesn't

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bode too well for New York, which just passed a new AI disclosure and postumous

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likeness law that will allow family members the choice over having their

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deceased relatives in AI videos. Now, it

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looks like the government will have to decide whether you get to see your dead

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grandma in an AI slop video. Very cool.

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A startup calling itself Operation Bluebird wants to bring back Twitter,

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arguing that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the name and poor Bluebird

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when he rebranded everything to X. They've filed to claim the trademarks

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and plan to launch Twitter.new as early as next year, promising a return to the

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proverbial nest, so to speak. Ah, I

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can't wait for legal experts to weigh in on this situation because it's either

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going to be the greatest brand resurrection in tech history or it'll be

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another influencer buys Enron situation. The bird may fly again or this could be

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how we finally find out that birds aren't real. Claire obscure expedition

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33 won game of the year and a bunch more

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of the 2025 game awards last night, which is great and much deserved. But

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come on, we were all really watching for the new launch trailers, right?

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Especially when a threeminute trailer reportedly costs over a million dollars,

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which explains why a few trailers, like the one for the new Street Fighter

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movie, were under a minute long. Honestly, they could have also shortened

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the teaser for Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic, a spiritual successor to Cotor

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from the originals director Casey Hudson. And I wouldn't have been upset

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because they literally just started working on it and it won't be out for

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like 5 years minimum.

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Celebrate brand. Star Wars Galactic Racer seems cool though. Hopefully

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there's more pods involved. Balders's Gate 3 developers Larian Studios

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returned to the Divinity franchise with a very not safe for work trailer which

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is very hype but good god that trailer

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for Control Resonant. Hello Ring Ring

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remedy Entertainment. Can I give you the most money I can right now? [groaning]

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Oh, it's so guys. There were a lot more trailers uh obviously that we didn't

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talk about. Well, what channel do you think this is? The beacons of Gondor are

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lint lint, [laughter] which is probably why they're not

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working too well. But regardless, we're going to use them to call you back for

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more tech news on Monday. UH FOR GONDOR

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THERE. You like that? >> Yeah.