One does not simply learn of the tech news. It is guarded by unseen forces.
Yet, as your host, I will venture where others would not. [laughter]
Google is testing out an experimental new AI powered browser called Disco
Baby. Baby isn't part of the name. >> Disco Stew is going to love this, man.
Disco aims to retool how you browse by
turning your messy stack of open tabs into interactive task focused mini apps
called Gen Tabs. Powered by Google's latest Gemini 3 model to complete jobs
for you so you can stop staring at a screen and have some free time to doom
scroll Instagram. It's launching as a Google Labs experiment with a macOS
weight list, but Google says insights from the experiment could eventually
roll into products like Chrome. Because of course it will. What? Google's not
going to force AI on the majority of users and launch a completely separate
AI web browser named after a dead music genre.
>> Who said disco's dead? Who said it? >> I think everybody. Open AAI certainly
wants to prove that rumors of their death have been exaggerated. Looking to
reclaim their edge in the AI market after Google's Gemini 3 reportedly made
them declare a code red, the company has released GPT 5.2, its most capable model
series yet. Apparently, GPT 5.2 shows strong benchmark gains against GPT 5.1
and human experts and is currently beating Gemini 3 in webdev on LLM Arena
while losing in other areas. But beware,
OpenAI admitted that its AI models are getting so good at coding tasks that
they could help build zeroday exploits or assist in sophisticated hacks. It's
so dangerous. They're working with outside security experts, including a
new advisory group, and creating special programs so cyber defense pros can use
advanced model features responsibly. But regular people can also use it, too.
It's probably fine. Disney fired a cease and desist at Google on Wednesday night,
accusing it of copyright infringement on a massive scale over the tech giant's
use of Disney IP for AI training and slop generation. Despite what a Google
spokesperson called a long-standing and mutually beneficial relationship with
Disney, it appears the House of Mouse is moving on because like an X on the
rebound, they turned around, saw Open AI, and were like, "Well, let's strike a
three-year deal that's both a licensing partnership and a big investment."
DISNEY, WAIT. DISNEY, WAIT. I STILL LOVE YOU.
>> What are you, Google? >> I'm Google.
>> It's over, Google. >> No, >> you son of a Disney is putting about a
billion dollars into OpenAI and officially allowing more than 200
Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters to be generated in the Sora
slop app starting in early 2026.
Uh, okay. So, what exactly is Disney getting out of this deal? Well, they're
getting free Chat GPT subscriptions for its workforce, integration with its
products, and if we're lucky, they may even show fan-made AI shorts on Disney
Plus. Wow. Both companies stress responsible
AI use and creator protections, and their deal deliberately excludes real
actors voices or likenesses from being used, even though those absolutely are
already have been trained on, and you can probably do that anyway. While
Disney CEO Bob Iger assures folks that the deal doesn't threaten creatives,
film industry folks see it as a moment that reshapes how entertainment
companies interact with AI licensing and copyright issues and creative labor with
Wired saying this deal redefes the AI
copyright war, allowing me to say in a Yoda voice begun. The copyright wars
have I mean they already began but now it's getting real. Hey Riley, why do you
think Yoda stopped fighting Palpatine? I I think he could have got him.
What happened there? The US government has approved the sale of NVIDIA's H200
AI chips to Chinese companies, reversing course after years of only allowing
China to buy cut down H20 chips. In
return for allowing this, the White House will take a 25% cut of H200 sales.
A very normal and not mafia-ike thing to do at all. And if anyone says different,
I know some real nice fishes who'd love to meet you. They need a sleeping
partner. Uh, which is a thing. The
thinking seems to be that sure, China will get more powerful AI chips, which
could give them a boost in the AI race, but they're still last gen H200 chips,
not the flagship B200. Plus, allowing
NVIDIA to sell a lot of very expensive GPUs will help fund their R&D.
Uh, the richest company in the world. They uh they don't have 5 trillion. It's
a drop in the bucket. Sure, why not? Experts say the whole setup is legally
and procedurally weird. And then there's the question of whether China even wants
their companies buying American chips following conflicting reports on the
matter. But NVIDIA is reportedly looking at ramping up H200 production
regardless. Meanwhile, with the memory supply chain already stretched thin,
memory maker SKH says it's slowing down its production of nextgen HBM4 to focus
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
too much. >> I don't believe in you. Handheld company Io has shown off its
first smartphone, the Iono Pocket Play.
Perhaps an homage to the old Sony Xperia Play. Because of course, this thing's
also a gaming handheld. The Play's screen slides up to reveal a full set of
physical controls, D-pad, ABXY buttons, shoulder buttons, and dual smart
touchpads. I mean, you might have a nice set of thumbs, but you'd probably rather
see the game than the Pocket Plays. Specs, price, and release timing are
still unannounced as Iono is gauging interest via an upcoming Kickstarter.
So, details like the processor, battery, and cameras are still under wraps.
>> They're teasing us. >> A It's just shy. It doesn't want to
show. It's just like hello. Fortnite is officially back on the Google Play Store
in the US after a 5-year absence caused by all the stuff I talked about in this
video. The game's return is due to Google recently settling with Epic after
Google's last legal appeal was denied in July. Epic's Tim Sweeney must be flying
high. Except that before anyone declared
Epic the final boss of antirust lawsuits, Apple went ahead and scored a
partial win of its own. It does bleed. An appeals court says Apple can still
charge commission on purchases made outside the app store, just not as much
or as freely as before. Whether all of this legal mudslinging was worth it in
the end could be debated. But hey, Tim Sweeney says he's happy. And that's what
it's all about. That's why I get up in the morning. Trump seems to be pretty
serious about the whole one national AI law thing. A new executive order could
potentially block states from enforcing their own AI rules, introducing plans
for a new litigation task force whose job is to review any AI laws made at a
state level and change the one they don't like. Once again, normal
and totally fine. This probably doesn't
bode too well for New York, which just passed a new AI disclosure and postumous
likeness law that will allow family members the choice over having their
deceased relatives in AI videos. Now, it
looks like the government will have to decide whether you get to see your dead
grandma in an AI slop video. Very cool.
A startup calling itself Operation Bluebird wants to bring back Twitter,
arguing that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the name and poor Bluebird
when he rebranded everything to X. They've filed to claim the trademarks
and plan to launch Twitter.new as early as next year, promising a return to the
proverbial nest, so to speak. Ah, I
can't wait for legal experts to weigh in on this situation because it's either
going to be the greatest brand resurrection in tech history or it'll be
another influencer buys Enron situation. The bird may fly again or this could be
how we finally find out that birds aren't real. Claire obscure expedition
33 won game of the year and a bunch more
of the 2025 game awards last night, which is great and much deserved. But
come on, we were all really watching for the new launch trailers, right?
Especially when a threeminute trailer reportedly costs over a million dollars,
which explains why a few trailers, like the one for the new Street Fighter
movie, were under a minute long. Honestly, they could have also shortened
the teaser for Star Wars Fate of the Old Republic, a spiritual successor to Cotor
from the originals director Casey Hudson. And I wouldn't have been upset
because they literally just started working on it and it won't be out for
like 5 years minimum.
Celebrate brand. Star Wars Galactic Racer seems cool though. Hopefully
there's more pods involved. Balders's Gate 3 developers Larian Studios
returned to the Divinity franchise with a very not safe for work trailer which
is very hype but good god that trailer
for Control Resonant. Hello Ring Ring
remedy Entertainment. Can I give you the most money I can right now? [groaning]
Oh, it's so guys. There were a lot more trailers uh obviously that we didn't
talk about. Well, what channel do you think this is? The beacons of Gondor are
lint lint, [laughter] which is probably why they're not
working too well. But regardless, we're going to use them to call you back for
more tech news on Monday. UH FOR GONDOR
THERE. You like that? >> Yeah.