all right here we go in three two this is the daily tech news for tuesday january 20th

twenty 26 we tell you what you need to know give you the important context and help each other

understand and don't worry folks there was a holiday in the U.S. yesterday.

We didn't all just fall into a pothole because of the rain.

Well, speak for yourself.

Well, yeah, if we did, it wasn't because of, that's not why we didn't do the show yesterday.

Right, right.

Today, Andy Beach is here to tell us why we shouldn't call things AI, and he's got some

recommendations of what terms we should use. Plus, Sony is spinning off its TV business to TCL.

Yeah, interesting. A story there. We're going to talk a lot about it. I'm Jason Howell.

I'm Tom Merritt. And let's start with what you need to know with that big story. Yeah, lots of spinning going on, Sony, spinning out its TV and home

audio unit into a separate company where TCL will own 51% and run manufacturing, primarily,

while Sony will keep 49 percent and its branding and

its image processing technology on Bravia sets. So the agreement is going to keep the Sony

Bravia branding intact on TVs produced through this new combined company anyways.

So basically what this means is your next Sony TV may actually be built by TCL, labeled as Sony

Bravia, and tuned with Sony's processing technology stack, which Sony is very known for.

The company signed a non-binding agreement, aims to have everything locked in

and operational by April 2027. That's next year pending regulatory approvals, of course.

All this, you can imagine, seems to be in favor of, well, cutting down on production costs.

While also, and I think this is kind of critical here,

and a big question that I have, without impacting the premium strength of the brand.

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