YouTube Upscaling/Policy Changes, Nvidia hits $5T, OpenAI for-profit + more!

Duration: 09:08

Timestamps:

0:00 true elevated horror

0:15 YouTube Super Resolution, content policy updates

1:52 Nvidia hits $5T after 2025 GTC announcements

3:20 OpenAI restructuring: for-profit PBC

4:42 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:54 Amazon laying off 14K corporate roles

5:37 1X Neo teleoperated home robot

6:40 DRAM prices surge, SSDs delayed

7:32 China's wind-powered, undersea data center

8:13 xAI launches Grokipedia

NEWS SOURCES:

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TUBE’S TV TRANSFORMATIONS

To add to YouTube stuff, they are adding an up-rezing feature (introducing a new AI-powered feature that automatically generates higher resolutions for videos)

Youtube’s support page

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16619284

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/new-features-to-help-creators/

Quote

https://lmg.gg/XuJsB

Previous Shorts experiment https://youtu.be/jJR_Mt50gSI?t=115

EDITOR: 1:54 show the two Linus shorts

Can toggle between original quality and ‘Super Resolution’

https://lmg.gg/4QWLs

YouTube's strengthening its approach to online gambling and graphic violence in gaming (age-verification)

https://www.theverge.com/news/808545/youtube-graphic-video-game-violence-age-restriction

“Realistic human character”

https://lmg.gg/Eg4yW

Google’s statement

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/383711785/youtube-s-strengthened-approach-to-online-gambling-and-graphic-violence-in-gaming?hl=en

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9229611?hl=en#zippy=%2Cexamples-of-age-restricted-content

FROM GPUs TO GDPs

Nvidia at GTC

Hey look, they made more money: Nvidia worth as much as German economy as value tops $5tn

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/29/nvidias-worth-tops-5tn-to-match-german-economy/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-stock-nears-5-trillion-market-cap-after-slew-of-updates-at-gtc-event-200415333.html

Nvidia’s announcements

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-us-manufacturing-robotics-physical-ai

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-uber-robotaxi

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/igx-thor-processor-physical-ai-industrial-medical-edge/

https://coincentral.com/nvidia-expands-u-s-energy-ties-with-oracle-palantir-and-uber-in-massive-ai-push/

Nvidia is working on a robot workforce and robotaxis

https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-bets-the-future-on-a-robot-workforce-2000677996

https://www.therobotreport.com/nvidia-partners-with-uber-to-deploy-avs-starting-in-2027/

Nvidia and Oracle are building the largest supercomputer in America

https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-supercomputers-for-trump-2000678264

Nvidia says

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-oracle-us-department-of-energy-ai-supercomputer-scientific-discovery

Nvidia introduces NVQLink, a system architecture to build accelerated quantum supercomputers.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/nvidias-new-product-merges-ai-supercomputing-with-quantum-d0864f06

Nvidia’s release

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-nvqlink-quantum-gpu-computing

Nvidia is investing in Nokia! Nvidia adding AI to Nokia’s radio access network (RAN)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/nvidia-to-invest-1-billion-in-nokia-in-ai-networking-push

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251029VL200/nokia-nvidia-6g-wireless-investment.html

Nokia’s statement

https://www.nokia.com/newsroom/nvidia-and-nokia-to-pioneer-the-ai-platform-for-6g--powering-ameri

cas-return-to-telecommunications-leadership/

FROM MISSION TO MARGIN

OpenAI has finally transitioned their capped-profit arm to a for-profit, public benefit corporation. “The nonprofit remains in control of the for-profit”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/technology/openai-restructure-for-profit-company.html

https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/

Previous structure https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/how-openai-board-is-structured

Explanation https://openai.com/our-structure/

OpenAI and Microsoft restructure their deal. Microsoft’s got 27% of OpenAI (less than they had before), and OpenAI is putting $250B (incremental purchase) into Azure

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-secures-27-stake-in-openai-in-new-deal-with-commitment-for-250b-in-azure-usage/

Announcement from Microsoft and OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/next-chapter-of-microsoft-openai-partnership/

OpenAI and PayPal are teaming up to embed the payments wallet into ChatGPT.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/paypal-openai-chatgpt-payments-deal.html

PayPal press release

https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2025-10-28-OpenAI-and-PayPal-Team-Up-to-Power-Instant-Checkout-and-Agentic-Commerce-in-ChatGPT

Sam Altman says AI could eliminate jobs that aren’t “real work”

https://www.techradar.com/pro/worried-about-ai-taking-your-job-dont-worry-sam-altman-says-some-disappearing-roles-were-never-real-work-to-begin-with

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sam-altman-says-ai-could-eliminate-jobs-that-arent-real-work

QUICK BITS

NEW WORLD ORDER

Amazon confirms reports that it’s cutting 14,000 corporate jobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/amzn-amazon-to-cut-14-000-jobs-across-corporate-workforce

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workforce-reduction

Amazon Games, and “New World” (dead?) are getting hit hard

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/new-world-is-dead-amazon-ends-new-content-updates-following-massive-layoffs-says-servers-will-be-live-through-2026/

New World’s Update

https://www.newworld.com/en-us/news/articles/update-on-new-world?tag=updates

NEO IS THE CHOSEN 1X

1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation

https://www.engadget.com/ai/1x-neo-is-a-20000-home-robot-that-will-learn-chores-via-teleoperation-040252200.html

https://mashable.com/article/1x-neo-humanoid-robot-preorder

Official site (funny home page)

https://www.1x.tech/neo

A DISTANT MEMORY

Memory shortage hits 70% order fulfillment; server DRAM prices surge 50%

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251028PD216/dram-chip-shortage-price-market-demand.html

Tom’s Hardware reported on the article

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/server-dram-prices-surge-50-percent

SSD crisis coming… "A year's worth of orders are piling up."

https://biz.newdaily.co.kr/site/data/html/2025/10/28/2025102800141.html

English article

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/10/29/news-high-capacity-ssds-reportedly-hit-year-long-delays-as-samsung-sk-and-kioxia-run-full-tilt/

WHAT ABOUT EARTH AND FIRE?

China has officially debuted the world’s first wind-powered, undersea data center

https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-powered-undersea-data-center/

https://www.webpronews.com/chinas-wind-powered-undersea-data-center-debuts-52-characters/

GROKY CAT

Grokipedia is just copying Wikipedia pages

https://grokipedia.com/

https://www.theverge.com/news/807686/elon-musk-grokipedia-launch-wikipedia-xai-copied

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-wikipedia-grok-grokipedia-4dab7c6ebb16cc7718b231adae4aac95

Grok doesn’t know who is who (mistakes border patrol chief for artist Cindy Sherman)