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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 Google is testing out an experimental new AI powered browser called Disco Baby. Baby isn't part of the name.
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Disco Stew is gonna love this man.
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Disco aims to retool how you browse by turning your messy stack of open tabs into interactive T 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 Mac OS wait list, but Google says insights from the experiment could eventually roll into products like Chrome because of course, it will. What? Google's not gonna force AI on the majority of users and launch a completely separate separate AI web browser named after a dead music genre?
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Who said Disco's dead? Who said it?
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I think everybody. OpenAI 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 in web dev 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 zero day 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, so 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 OpenAI and were like, well, let's strike a three year deal that's both a licensing partnership and a big investment.
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Disney, wait. Disney, wait. I still. I still love you.
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What are you Google?
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I'm Google.
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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. Okay, so what exactly is Disney getting out of this deal while they're getting free ChatGPT subscriptions for its workforce integration with its products? And if we're lucky, they may even show fan made AI shorts on Disney. 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 redefines 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.
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Hey Riley, why do you think Yoda stopped fighting Palpatine? I think he could have got him. What happened there?
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The US government has approved the sale of Nvidia's H200AI 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 like 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, 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 and D. The richest company in the world. 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 SK Hynix says it's slowing down its production of next gen HBM4 to to focus on the HBM3e used in H200 and B200 chips. Regular desktop memory still screwed though? Well, there's always paper and pens. You can even use a fancy one like our sponsor Novium. Their hover pens make classy cool gifts for the classy, cool people in your life. Or maybe for your classy cool self too. The Hoverpen is designed to stand out as both a functional tool and inspiring desk art that evoke thoughts of spacecraft boldly leaping into the unknown. It's beautiful. So naturally it's made with aircraft grade aluminum and floats on its dock using permanent magnets. But you can imagine it's using fusion powered anti gravity coils if that tickles your brain in the way you like. While the Hoverpen is certainly stylish, it's also refillable, comfortable to write with, and comes in a few variants like the Hoverpen Interstellar, a ballpoint that stands on its base at a 23 and a half degree angle, a nod to the Earth's axial tilt. And it comes in Space Black, Starlight Silver, Neptune Blue and Mars Magma. Great color names, Hoverpen future features optional interchangeable fountain and rollerball tips a 60 degree flight trajectory and comes in deep black, frost silver or mist blue. Give the gift of inspiration for the next 48 hours. Enjoy 15% off and 10% off after that on all hover pens with code techlinked and there's free shipping in most countries. Just visit NoviumDesign shop TechLinked or click the link below. Gollum impression. We wants them, we needs them. Must have the quick bits. They stole it from us, those sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked Trixie Falls I can't do a Gollum impression. I'm sorry? They wrote you believed in me too much.
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I don't believe in you.
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Handheld company Ayaneo has shown off its first smartphone, the Ayaneo 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 touch pads. I mean, you might have a nice set of thumbs, but you'd probably rather see the game than the PocketPlay's specs. Price and release timing are still unannounced as Ayaneo is gauging interest via an upcoming Kickstarter, so details like the processor, battery and cameras are still under wraps.
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They're teasing us.
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Aw, it's just shy. It doesn't wanna show. It's just like eep. Hello? Fortnite is officially back on the Google Play store in the US after a five year absence caused by all the stuff I talked about in this video. The game's return is due to GOOG 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 antitrust 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 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 posthumous 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 slob video. Very cool. A startup calling itself Operation Bluebird wants to bring back Twitter, arguing that Elon Musk effectively abandoned the name and poor Blue Bird 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 return to the proverbial nest, so to speak. 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 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. Clair 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 three minute 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 Fate of the Old Republic, a spiritual successor to Kotor from the original's 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. Baldur's Gate 3 developers Larian Studios returned to the Divinity franchise with a 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? It's so, guys, there were a lot more trailers obviously that we didn't talk about. Well, what channel do you think this is? The beacons of Gondor are lint. Lint. Which is probably why they're not working too well. But regardless, we're gonna use them to call you back for more tech news on Monday. Uh, Forgondor. You like that?
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Yeah.