Fresh Nvidia N1X leaks, Samsung Unpacked highlights, US Defense Dept. vs Anthropic + more!

Duration: 11:32

Timestamps:

0:00 National Technographic

0:15 Fresh Nvidia N1X leaks, job listings

1:47 Galaxy Unpacked 2026 highlights: S26 Ultra

4:21 DoD vs Anthropic

7:01 QUICK BITS INTRO

7:14 Discord delays global age verification

8:03 Misleading OneDrive 'storage' listings

8:55 Farmers refuse to sell land for data centers

9:35 Panasonic TV deal with 'Skyworth'

10:31 Spotify x Liquid Death Eternal Playlist Urn

NEWS SOURCES:

Galaxy Unpacked February 2026: Official Livestream (Starts at 10:00)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA93zbnoR4U

NVIDIA’S LAPTOP TAKEOVER

[potential main main, if Unpacked is lame - which it very well might be]

Nvidia's N1/N1X chips leak once again, this time tipped for release in first half of 2026 — hotly-anticipated chips to reportedly debut on Dell and Lenovo laptops

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/nvidias-n1-n1x-chips-leak-once-again-this-time-tipped-for-release-in-first-half-of-2026-hotly-anticipated-chips-to-reportedly-debut-on-dell-and-lenovo-laptops

Based off WSJ report https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wants-to-be-the-brain-of-consumer-pcs-once-again-9e1e41b3

Archive https://archive.is/LT382

Discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1rdngz1/nvidia_n1_soc_laptops_in_h1_2026_with_20_cores/

The N1X is rumored to be a consumer version of their GB10 superchip, packing 20 ARM cores and an integrated GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, supposedly matching a desktop RTX 5070. Rumored Spec Leaks

EDITOR: You can use the highlighted text as a screenshot https://shorturl.at/3mAmI

DGX Spark https://www.amax.com/content/images/2025/05/nvidia-project-digits-exploded-vew-ari-22.jpeg

Some leaked product names from last month in the verge article although speculation(may cut):

https://www.theverge.com/games/867056/leak-nvidia-n1-n1x-laptops-lenovo-dell

But wait, why do we care, again? Because as much as we rag on Nvidia for caring about AI more than gamers, they DO still put resources into gaming; look, they’re hiring software engineers to work on 'native-speed x86-64 gaming on Linux/ARM64 platforms' https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-getting-more-serious-about-gaming-on-linux-and-arm-hiring-engineer-to-work-on-native-speed-x86-64-gaming-on-linux-arm64-platforms/

https://nvidia.eightfold.ai/careers/job/893393264012

EDITOR: show top of page, then move down to the quoted text https://lmg.gg/7KWNO

Unified memory might also seem like a disadvantage but we’ve seen success through Intel’s Panther Lake integrated graphics on “the new Dell XPS 14 which was able to run Cyberpunk 2077 at close 60fps at 1080p” Unified memory might solve the issues surrounding low or no VRAM, yippee?.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/laptops/nvidia-is-returning-to-its-roots-with-new-laptop-chips-and-a-heavy-focus-on-gaming-but-will-it-be-enough-to-make-arm-cpus-a-viable-alternative

https://www.computerworld.com/article/4136489/nvidia-plans-a-windows-pc-soc-setting-up-direct-competition-with-qualcomm-intel-and-amd.html

“Shreeya Deshpande, senior analyst at Everest Group, said the move signals a broader strategic shift. “Nvidia’s reported move into Arm-based PC SoCs marks a strategic shift from being primarily a GPU supplier to competing at the core platform level in Windows laptops,” she said. “If successful, it could materially intensify competition in the Windows-on-Arm ecosystem and increase pressure on incumbent PC silicon providers to further differentiate on AI performance and efficiency.””

More news in the upcoming Nvidia GTC  2026 Keynote

https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/keynote/?regcode=no-ncid&ncid=no-ncid

AI CARAMBA

[A main, heat score has been building]

‘Department of War’ sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to allow its Claude AI model to be used for:

mass domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens

physical attacks where AI makes targeting decisions without human input

DoW is tired of thinking before killing. Lets get that kill chain down to one link that is controlled by a hallucinating computer without an intrinsic understanding of human morality.

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario

Pete Hegseth, seen here pretending to listen while wondering why his dad didn’t hug him more

Quote for bad things listed above https://lmg.gg/WkLGg  “physical attacks where AI makes targeting decisions without human input”

Senior defense official told Axios that in a tense Tuesday meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Defense Secretary (War Secretary?) Pete Hegseth threatened to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, blocking it from working with the govt and a wide swath of companies, OR invoking the Defense Production Act to FORCE Anthropic to adapt to the govt’s needs. Or maybe even BOTH; i know it doesn’t make sense i’m just SO ANGRY right now https://lmg.gg/6LzAv

Anthropic says they won't budge

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-wont-budge-as-pentagon-escalates-ai-dispute/

So in retaliation the pentagon announced that they would start using grok for defence related stuff. Oh Mecha hitler? GREAT FUCKING MOVE PETE

https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-digs-heels-dispute-with-pentagon-source-says-2026-02-24/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=699e0924af1b980001cee0e0&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Quote about the approval here

Honestly, amodei’s pushback here  is GOOD because: A study finds GPT-5.2,

Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

BUT they do drop a SEPARATE pledge, about not training a model unless they're sure it will be safe - because “if we don’t, the other guys will, and actually it’ll still be safe anyway, so…”

https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

Original Source: Anthropic Blog: https://www.anthropic.com/news/responsible-scaling-policy-v3

Quote about the response of leadership when they were asked about whether they were caving on their commitment to safety.

“Asked whether Anthropic was caving to market pressure, Kaplan argued that, in fact, Anthropic was making a renewed commitment to developing AI safely. “If all of our competitors are transparently doing the right thing when it comes to catastrophic risk, we are committed to doing as well or better,” he said. “But we don't think it makes sense for us to stop engaging with AI research, AI safety, and most likely lose relevance as an innovator who understands the frontier of the technology, in a scenario where others are going ahead and we're not actually contributing any additional risk to the ecosystem.”

Adding this to replace the Source that got dropped below: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change

And Here’s an additional quote you can use: from the new source if it works: quote

Which is basically just them saying “we’re committed to safety as long as we keep winning, and if we won’t then we’re committing to money and winning”

As marcus aurelius said “Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, unless you’re about to lose an AI arms race to sam altman..then fuck it”.

Yeah - Anthropic might be the SLIGHTLY lesser of many AI-company evils, but it will still do things like complain about other companies training their AIs on output from Anthropic’s AI that was trained on every copyrighted thing that’s ever existed - which still sounds hypocritical even if it market itself as the victim of ‘industrial-scale distillation attacks’

https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2025997928242811253

Sure, ‘distillation is a widely used and legitimate training method’ - but NOT when it happens to ME!!

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks

EDITOR: show top of page, then move down to quoted text https://lmg.gg/iymUZ

QUICK BITS

LET ME EXPLAIN

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout

https://www.theverge.com/policy/883852/discord-age-verification-global-walkback-delay

Non Paywalled: https://archive.md/si9Tm

Original Source: New Blog post https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing

Quote: “The way this landed you guys walked away thinking you’d ALL have to verify…why would you think that”

Real substitute teacher energy in this quote

“Over 90% of users will never need to verify their age to continue using Discord exactly as they do today” https://lmg.gg/5JYh9

Ultimately

Second  Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv0yg4n9lo

Quote: “Discord stressed it would meet any specific legal obligations it has for age verification of users, and that age verification will be part of the platform in the future“

(Remove below if this is a QB and not a main)

Reminder: these platforms aren’t compromising user privacy just to be assholes; they’re doing it to avoid government penalties, like the 14-million-pound fine the UK just slapped Reddit with for having insufficient age checks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyx0xggepjo

jUST DOWNLOAD MORE STORAGE

Amazon seller advertising 1.2 TB of storage on HP laptop... 1 TB of which is OneDrive storage

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1rdrwbf/amazon_seller_advertising_12_tb_of_storage_on_hp/

https://www.amazon.com/HP-Ultrabook-Microsoft-Budget-Friendly-Essential/dp/B0G5L4K26H/ref=sr_1_3?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/HP-Microsoft-Quad-Cores-Processor-Earphones/dp/B0GGCQSLNW?th=1

Thankfully Canadians don't have to deal with this issue, they actually get devices with 1024GB SSDs…so 1tb, but big number make profit go brrrr

https://shorturl.at/liKoH

https://shorturl.at/Ngyai

FARMER’S LAST STAND

Data center boom targeting rural farmland. Tech companies aggressively scout large rural plots for data centers, farmland is attractive because its large, cheap, and on power accessible land. Farmers refusing massive payouts however for emotional and legacy reasons.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/im-not-for-sale-farmers-refuse-to-take-millions-in-data-center-deals/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/21/us-farmers-datacenters

https://wset.com/news/local/charlotte-county-farmer-battles-dominion-energy-over-eminent-domain-threat-on-farmland-april-2025

-”Those who refuse to sell say the utility company has warned it may invoke eminent domain - the government power to seize private property for public use. Dominion energy used it against a virginia farmer last april”

THE KING HAS FALLEN

Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs (Similar to the Sony/TCL deal, they will now be manufactured by Skyworth, a Chinese TV brand nobody has ever heard of but sounds like a big deal) - https://www.techspot.com/news/111445-panasonic-exits-tv-manufacturing-hands-production-skyworth.html

Original Source for the Announcement - Flat Panels HD:  https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1771867397

Quote: "The two organisations share a commitment to innovation and excellence. As a top-five global TV brand, we will bring world-class product innovation supported by extensive R&D investment, alongside a rapidly expanding international footprint and established distribution network. This strategic alignment is expected to accelerate the growth of Panasonic-branded TVs across Europe,"

Translation: Skyworth wants to use the weight of the panasonic name to move their TVs in western markets like Europe and the US and panasonic wants to coast on the power of their name.

Second source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/panasonic-the-former-plasma-king-will-no-longer-make-its-own-tvs/

Quote: This quote shows a precipitous decline in panasonic’s market share - which ars technica attributes mainly to the Global Financial Crisis in 2008

WELCOME TO THE BLACK PARADE

Spotify and Liquid Death release a limited-edition speaker shaped like… an urn?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/spotify-and-liquid-death-release-a-limited-edition-speaker-shaped-like-an-urn/

Quote about how it works: Asks questions about your eternal vibe and ghost noises and then makes a playlist based on that that syncs to the urn

Original Source: https://liquiddeath.com/en-ca/pages/spotify-urn

Video showing it working and the placement of the speaker can be found here: https://youtu.be/2QXRyGBDFME

The last Liquid Death cross promo stunt was a yeti branded casket that sold for 68 thousand dollars: https://liquiddeath.com/products/yeti-x-liquid-death-casket-cooler

Given their history of launching then bricking physical devices eternity might be like 18 months:

Car thing https://support.spotify.com/us/article/car-thing-discontinued/

…I guess you’ll have to keep paying for spotify premium otherwise you’ll keep hearing ads for the rest of eternity