WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:09.519 One does not simply learn of the tech news. It is guarded by unseen forces. 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:15.040 Yet, as your host, I will venture where others would not. [laughter] 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:20.880 Google is testing out an experimental new AI powered browser called Disco 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:26.720 Baby. Baby isn't part of the name. >> Disco Stew is going to love this, man. 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:28.800 Disco aims to retool how you browse by 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:34.239 turning your messy stack of open tabs into interactive task focused mini apps 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:39.040 called Gen Tabs. Powered by Google's latest Gemini 3 model to complete jobs 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:43.040 for you so you can stop staring at a screen and have some free time to doom 00:00:40.879 --> 00:00:47.520 scroll Instagram. It's launching as a Google Labs experiment with a macOS 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:52.000 weight list, but Google says insights from the experiment could eventually 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:56.000 roll into products like Chrome. Because of course it will. What? Google's not 00:00:54.239 --> 00:01:00.480 going to force AI on the majority of users and launch a completely separate 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.840 AI web browser named after a dead music genre. 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:07.840 >> Who said disco's dead? Who said it? >> I think everybody. Open AAI certainly 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:11.680 wants to prove that rumors of their death have been exaggerated. Looking to 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:16.320 reclaim their edge in the AI market after Google's Gemini 3 reportedly made 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:23.439 them declare a code red, the company has released GPT 5.2, its most capable model 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:28.000 series yet. Apparently, GPT 5.2 shows strong benchmark gains against GPT 5.1 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:35.040 and human experts and is currently beating Gemini 3 in webdev on LLM Arena 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.360 while losing in other areas. But beware, 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:40.960 OpenAI admitted that its AI models are getting so good at coding tasks that 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:45.439 they could help build zeroday exploits or assist in sophisticated hacks. It's 00:01:43.600 --> 00:01:49.280 so dangerous. They're working with outside security experts, including a 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:53.600 new advisory group, and creating special programs so cyber defense pros can use 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:57.040 advanced model features responsibly. But regular people can also use it, too. 00:01:54.960 --> 00:02:01.439 It's probably fine. Disney fired a cease and desist at Google on Wednesday night, 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:06.240 accusing it of copyright infringement on a massive scale over the tech giant's 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:10.640 use of Disney IP for AI training and slop generation. Despite what a Google 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:14.400 spokesperson called a long-standing and mutually beneficial relationship with 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:18.800 Disney, it appears the House of Mouse is moving on because like an X on the 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:22.959 rebound, they turned around, saw Open AI, and were like, "Well, let's strike a 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:27.360 three-year deal that's both a licensing partnership and a big investment." 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:30.000 DISNEY, WAIT. DISNEY, WAIT. I STILL LOVE YOU. 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:34.239 >> What are you, Google? >> I'm Google. 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:39.760 >> It's over, Google. >> No, >> you son of a Disney is putting about a 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:43.760 billion dollars into OpenAI and officially allowing more than 200 00:02:41.760 --> 00:02:49.840 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters to be generated in the Sora 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:52.160 slop app starting in early 2026. 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:55.840 Uh, okay. So, what exactly is Disney getting out of this deal? Well, they're 00:02:53.920 --> 00:03:00.640 getting free Chat GPT subscriptions for its workforce, integration with its 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:05.920 products, and if we're lucky, they may even show fan-made AI shorts on Disney 00:03:03.519 --> 00:03:10.800 Plus. Wow. Both companies stress responsible 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:15.120 AI use and creator protections, and their deal deliberately excludes real 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:20.400 actors voices or likenesses from being used, even though those absolutely are 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:24.480 already have been trained on, and you can probably do that anyway. While 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:28.239 Disney CEO Bob Iger assures folks that the deal doesn't threaten creatives, 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:32.879 film industry folks see it as a moment that reshapes how entertainment 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:38.480 companies interact with AI licensing and copyright issues and creative labor with 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:41.440 Wired saying this deal redefes the AI 00:03:38.480 --> 00:03:46.959 copyright war, allowing me to say in a Yoda voice begun. The copyright wars 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:52.560 have I mean they already began but now it's getting real. Hey Riley, why do you 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:57.519 think Yoda stopped fighting Palpatine? I I think he could have got him. 00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:02.720 What happened there? The US government has approved the sale of NVIDIA's H200 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:08.319 AI chips to Chinese companies, reversing course after years of only allowing 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:09.840 China to buy cut down H20 chips. In 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:16.320 return for allowing this, the White House will take a 25% cut of H200 sales. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:19.840 A very normal and not mafia-ike thing to do at all. And if anyone says different, 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:25.040 I know some real nice fishes who'd love to meet you. They need a sleeping 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:27.199 partner. Uh, which is a thing. The 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:31.600 thinking seems to be that sure, China will get more powerful AI chips, which 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:37.600 could give them a boost in the AI race, but they're still last gen H200 chips, 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:39.280 not the flagship B200. Plus, allowing 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:44.800 NVIDIA to sell a lot of very expensive GPUs will help fund their R&D. 00:04:42.960 --> 00:04:49.280 Uh, the richest company in the world. They uh they don't have 5 trillion. It's 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:54.240 a drop in the bucket. Sure, why not? Experts say the whole setup is legally 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:58.400 and procedurally weird. And then there's the question of whether China even wants 00:04:56.479 --> 00:05:01.919 their companies buying American chips following conflicting reports on the 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:05.919 matter. But NVIDIA is reportedly looking at ramping up H200 production 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:10.560 regardless. 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The game's return is due to Google recently settling with Epic after 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:58.000 Google's last legal appeal was denied in July. Epic's Tim Sweeney must be flying 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:00.160 high. Except that before anyone declared 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:05.120 Epic the final boss of antirust lawsuits, Apple went ahead and scored a 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:09.680 partial win of its own. It does bleed. An appeals court says Apple can still 00:08:07.280 --> 00:08:15.039 charge commission on purchases made outside the app store, just not as much 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:19.520 or as freely as before. Whether all of this legal mudslinging was worth it in 00:08:17.039 --> 00:08:23.440 the end could be debated. But hey, Tim Sweeney says he's happy. And that's what 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:27.919 it's all about. That's why I get up in the morning. Trump seems to be pretty 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:32.560 serious about the whole one national AI law thing. A new executive order could 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:37.279 potentially block states from enforcing their own AI rules, introducing plans 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:42.000 for a new litigation task force whose job is to review any AI laws made at a 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:48.560 state level and change the one they don't like. Once again, normal 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.959 and totally fine. This probably doesn't 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:55.839 bode too well for New York, which just passed a new AI disclosure and postumous 00:08:53.680 --> 00:09:00.800 likeness law that will allow family members the choice over having their 00:08:57.760 --> 00:09:02.000 deceased relatives in AI videos. Now, it 00:09:00.800 --> 00:09:07.360 looks like the government will have to decide whether you get to see your dead 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:09.600 grandma in an AI slop video. Very cool. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:14.800 A startup calling itself Operation Bluebird wants to bring back Twitter, 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:19.760 arguing that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the name and poor Bluebird 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:24.240 when he rebranded everything to X. They've filed to claim the trademarks 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:30.560 and plan to launch Twitter.new as early as next year, promising a return to the 00:09:26.640 --> 00:09:32.720 proverbial nest, so to speak. Ah, I 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:36.480 can't wait for legal experts to weigh in on this situation because it's either 00:09:35.040 --> 00:09:41.920 going to be the greatest brand resurrection in tech history or it'll be 00:09:38.959 --> 00:09:46.399 another influencer buys Enron situation. The bird may fly again or this could be 00:09:44.560 --> 00:09:52.320 how we finally find out that birds aren't real. Claire obscure expedition 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:55.279 33 won game of the year and a bunch more 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:58.880 of the 2025 game awards last night, which is great and much deserved. But 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:03.040 come on, we were all really watching for the new launch trailers, right? 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:07.360 Especially when a threeminute trailer reportedly costs over a million dollars, 00:10:05.680 --> 00:10:11.040 which explains why a few trailers, like the one for the new Street Fighter 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:14.880 movie, were under a minute long. Honestly, they could have also shortened 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:18.800 the teaser for Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic, a spiritual successor to Cotor 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:22.000 from the originals director Casey Hudson. And I wouldn't have been upset 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:26.880 because they literally just started working on it and it won't be out for 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:29.200 like 5 years minimum. 00:10:26.880 --> 00:10:33.040 Celebrate brand. Star Wars Galactic Racer seems cool though. Hopefully 00:10:30.959 --> 00:10:37.519 there's more pods involved. Balders's Gate 3 developers Larian Studios 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:43.360 returned to the Divinity franchise with a very not safe for work trailer which 00:10:39.920 --> 00:10:46.959 is very hype but good god that trailer 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:49.440 for Control Resonant. Hello Ring Ring 00:10:46.959 --> 00:10:55.440 remedy Entertainment. Can I give you the most money I can right now? [groaning] 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:59.040 Oh, it's so guys. There were a lot more trailers uh obviously that we didn't 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:03.519 talk about. Well, what channel do you think this is? The beacons of Gondor are 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:07.279 lint lint, [laughter] which is probably why they're not 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:13.600 working too well. But regardless, we're going to use them to call you back for 00:11:08.959 --> 00:11:15.279 more tech news on Monday. UH FOR GONDOR 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:18.079 THERE. You like that? >> Yeah.