Guru's Tech Bytes — Episode 31

Good morning, it's Monday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 31. First up, Mercedes-Benz is bringing back physical buttons, and look, I don't wanna say I told you so, but — actually no, I do wanna say that, I told you so. You ever try to turn down the heat in one of those fancy new cars while you're driving and you end up accidentally opening the sunroof and changing the language to Portuguese? That's what touchscreens do. Real buttons. That's civilization. Mercedes figured it out. Good for them. Second, there's something called DeepClaude, which is — okay so it's Claude, which is an AI, running on top of DeepSeek, which is a different AI, and together they do... coding stuff. Apparently it makes the AI better at writing code, which, you know, that's great, more power to it. Though I will say, my nephew had an AI write him some code last week and his whole laptop just sat there spinning for four hours, which honestly sounds like a Microsoft thing, but whatever. Third, there's a new statue in London that people think is a Banksy — it's a guy in a suit with a flag over his face so he can't see anything. And I get it, it's art, it's a statement, very deep. I just think it's funny that the most interesting tech-adjacent story today is a statue. Sometimes the old ways are better. See also: buttons. Mercedes gets it. And finally, OpenAI's o1 AI correctly diagnosed sixty-seven percent of emergency room patients, compared to fifty to fifty-five percent for regular triage doctors. And I don't — look, I'm not a doctor, I know that, Lois reminds me of that constantly — but sixty-seven percent feels like a C-plus and we're celebrating it? I mean good, it's progress, genuinely, I'm not being a jerk about it, it's just — sixty-seven percent. That's something. That's your daily byte. Have a great day. Until next time.