Aluminium OS spotted, Big Social Media Lawsuit, "Moltbot", + more!

Duration: 09:47

Timestamps:

0:00 the chip is good! what!

0:15 Android desktop OS leak

1:46 TikTok settles social media lawsuit

3:17 Locally-hosted AI assistant Moltbot

5:25 QUICK BITS INTRO

5:39 Intel XeSS 3 multi-frame gen rollout

6:21 China says yes to H200 chips

7:04 Iran opening internet but really closing it

8:04 Amazon misfires layoff email

8:50 Figure Helix O2, Fauna Robotics Sprout

NEWS SOURCES:

INTRO

LinusTechTips Ryzen 7 9850X3D review https://youtu.be/4Ps-JDyimJw?t=152

ALU-LEAK-IUM

MAINS

Android’s full desktop interface leaks: New status bar, Chrome Extensions, more

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/

Android 16 build code named ALOS https://lmg.gg/05i5Q

Leaked clip https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/01/Android-desktop-leak-1.mp4

0:13 - show top bar when I mention it, then bottom right

Existing Android 16 desktop mode https://youtu.be/yzDO-GS-Bm8?t=254

4:14 - zoom in on the bottom right of the video

Engadget: https://www.engadget.com/computing/our-first-look-at-googles-android-for-pc-interface-leaks-in-a-bug-report-133006008.html

Google confirmed multiple times last year that it’s ‘combining’ Chrome OS and Android into one

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-combine-chrome-os-android-3577035/

Google exec Rick Osterloh confirming it at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit

https://youtu.be/Fr2-P5rgkOQ

53:22 (no audio) the crane shot as it switches to the close-up

Screenshot: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/diU4CGqw3swXDuFtnsjFoQ-970-80.jpg.webp

Android Authority video showing the build number: https://youtu.be/PnzXh-Tmjc0?t=2

Tab S11 ShortCircuit at 9:11, Riley points out it is basically a laptop: https://youtu.be/1FizCK8_Vlc?t=551

Context: Chrome os has been a thing for a long time, it is based on linux, ppl love android, it never took off except like schools, bunch of rumors and leaks for aluminum os, was confirmed,  now they leaked entire desktop environment and it runs off android

HOOKED ON A FEELING

Bellweather case on social media’s addictive nature wrt the harms to children - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/tiktok-settles-hours-before-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-starts/

TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin Original Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g8v6qr1mo

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/woman-to-settle-tiktok-social-media-addiction-case-before-trial

https://archive.md/mn6bL#selection-1627.0-1629.186

Polkitico story about the trial in general: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/were-basically-pushers-court-filings-allege-staff-at-social-media-giants-compared-their-platforms-to-drugs-00666181

Tech oversight report showing unsealing of documents that implicate big tech in targeting getting teens hooked: https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/?ref=dispatch.techoversight.org

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/27/social-media-trial-meta-tiktok-youtube

Meta and youtube going to trial: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/social-media-youth-mental-health-trial

NPR: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5684196/social-media-kids-addiction-mental-health-trial

Mark Zuckerberg targeting teens: https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/?ref=dispatch.techoversight.org

CLAWS FOR CONCERN

Clawd Bot is a hyper integrate AI that’s gonna prompt inject your life - https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/everything-you-need-to-know-about-viral-personal-ai-assistant-clawdbot-now-moltbot/

Original Site: https://www.clawd.me/

Current Site Site: https://clawd.bot/

Github: https://github.com/moltbot/moltbot

The Verge Talking about how everyone loves it: https://www.theverge.com/report/869004/moltbot-clawdbot-local-ai-agent

This guy also loves it: https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like/

Is it safe - PC Magazien: https://www.pcmag.com/news/clawdbot-now-moltbot-is-hot-new-ai-agent-safe-to-use-or-risky?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=B

Security Concerns: https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/moltbot-security-alert-exposed-clawdbot-control-panels-risk-credential-leaks-and-account-takeovers

69k stars on github *nice*

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/viral-ai-assistant-moltbot-rapidly-gains-popularity-but-poses-security-risks/

QUICKBITS

QB INTRO

Samsung galaxy Z trifold Announced us price - 2900 - https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/the-samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-will-cost-2900-in-the-us-140000013.html

THREE’S A CROWD

Intel enables XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation in latest drivers, expanding frame generation across Arc GPUs and Core Ultra iGPUs — MFG can be enabled across any title with XeSS 2 support

Also backwards the it spells SSSSSEX

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/intel-enables-xess-3-multi-frame-generation-in-latest-drivers-expanding-frame-generation-across-arc-gpus-and-core-ultra-igpus-mfg-can-be-enabled-across-any-title-with-xess-2-support

Hot Hardware: https://hothardware.com/news/intel-new-arc-gpu-driver-xess-3

Frame Gen slide: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3hhBHBxSDWecm9ZWf397db-970-80.png.webp

Update Changelog: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-graphics-windows.html

JENSEN’S SILVER TONGUE

Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-approves-purchases-of-nvidias-h200-chip-easing-tension-with-u-s-daa1ec84

China gives nod to ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent to buy Nvidia's H200 chips - sources

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-gives-green-light-importing-first-batch-nvidias-h200-ai-chips-sources-say-2026-01-28/

TradingView: https://www.tradingview.com/news/invezz:207b2b329094b:0-china-approves-first-imports-of-nvidia-s-h200-ai-chips-during-huang-s-visit/

SILENCE OF THE LANS

Iran plans to cut ties with the global internet (update to the previous QB we did)

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/not-just-censorship-its-digital-isolation-iran-plans-to-cut-ties-with-the-global-internet-and-vpns-may-not-help-this-time

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/irans-internet-shutdown-signals-new-stage-digital-isolation

https://x.com/CloudflareRadar/status/2016510501404946730

A NEW DAWN

AWS Prematurely Canned a buncha people - https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-bungles-wednesday-layoff-plan-with-misfired-internal-email-2026-01-28/

Layoff of 16000 corporate workers: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-prematurely-alerts-layoffs-canada-us-9.7064378

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/premature-amazon-layoff-email-touches-off-social-media-panic

'You shouldn't worry as much about AI taking your job as you should worry about someone who's very good using AI taking your job': Cisco CEO says effects of AI will cause "carnage" in the jobs market

https://www.techradar.com/pro/you-shouldnt-worry-as-much-about-ai-taking-your-job-as-you-should-worry-about-someone-whos-very-good-using-ai-taking-your-job-cisco-ceo-says-effects-of-ai-will-cause-carnage-in-the-jobs-market

Quote from BBC: https://lmg.gg/fuVho

WALL-E FOUND LEGS

Helix O2 will kill you one day - https://youtu.be/lQsvTrRTBRs?si=c7EMPIGld6upa19o (2:45 and 3:15)

Launch page: https://www.figure.ai/helix

While other companies like Engine AI focus on strange things like front flips

https://packaged-media.redd.it/c6na4p1syjfg1/pb/m2-res_390p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1769634000&s=72b0ec3dd312019ced59521fad1900ac8e7dafd0

Fauna robotics made this guy to be cute tho https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/humanoid-robot-can-fetch-a-toothbrush

AI Insider: https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/01/28/new-yorks-fauna-robotics-emerges-from-stealth-with-sprout-a-lightweight-and-developer-ready-humanoid-platform/

Blog post: https://faunarobotics.com/news/the-robot-youre-looking-for-introducing-sprout

Video of Sprout waddling around all cute like, silly lil guy