1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,800 Ah, help! I accidentally bought a cursed RTX 5090 from a witch on Facebook 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:11,640 Marketplace. Well, I might be tiny now, but that won't stop me from delivering 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:14,720 tech news. Tech news forever! 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:17,280 Anthropic just announced Claude Mythos, 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:21,200 a new AI model that's so good at finding and exploiting cybersecurity 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:25,800 vulnerabilities that CEO Dario Amodei said it was too dangerous to be released 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:31,040 publicly. But, instead of deleting the dangerous model, Dario did the totally 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:36,280 normal, not weird thing of launching a defense consortium called Project 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,920 Glasswing. The purpose of the project, in addition to making Dario feel like 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,640 he's in the Justice League, is giving tech giants access to Mythos to scan and 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:49,920 fix their own systems before models with similar capabilities inevitably reach 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,720 bad actors. Along with the model, Anthropic released a 244-page 13 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:59,520 system card, the contents of which are somewhat concerning. In it, Anthropic 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:03,320 reports that Mythos poses serious alignment-related risks, referencing a 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:08,120 situation during testing when researchers gave Mythos a secured 16 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:11,960 sandbox computer isolated from the general web and told it to try to 17 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:16,960 escape. The model developed a multi-step exploit 18 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:21,040 to gain broad internet access and then emailed the researcher to confirm it 19 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:25,680 completed the task. Then, without anyone asking it to, it posted details about 20 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,400 its exploit to multiple public-facing websites. 21 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:33,120 >> Brag much? Anthropic's red team confirmed that 22 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:37,640 Mythos has shown proficiency in finding and exploiting zero days across every 23 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:41,400 major platform. And the security community is taking it seriously. In 24 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:46,560 just the last couple of days, Mythos found a 27-year-old critical bug in 25 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:51,680 OpenBSD and a 16-year-old flaw in FFmpeg. So, maybe the nerd Justice 26 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:57,920 League that Amodei just assembled is a good idea. Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite 27 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:03,120 Extreme, say that five times fast. Has officially landed in the Asus Zenbook 28 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:06,720 816 and it's a literal heavyweight except for the actual weight. It's 29 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:12,640 they're light they're thin and light. At just 2.65 lb and housing an 18-core ARM 30 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:17,959 chip, it floats like a Qualcomm and stings like a dragon. Asus claims it's 31 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:21,920 the fastest Snapdragon laptop yet and the early review benchmarks seem to 32 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:27,200 agree. In Geekbench multicore, it didn't just edge out Apple's M4 Pro, it blasted 33 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:31,360 past the base M5 and left Intel and AMD's competitors in the dust. The top 34 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:35,680 position, however, is still held by Apple's brand new M5 Pro. The Zenbook 35 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,920 also held its own against AMD in Cinebench. The laptop itself is also 36 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:47,160 quite impressive with a 16-in 120 Hz OLED and 48 GB of on-package RAM in a 37 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:51,840 chassis lighter than most 14-in for $1,700. There is a catch though, battery 38 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:59,160 life. Tom's Hardware clocked it at 10 and 1/2 hours, five hours behind the M5 39 00:02:55,120 --> 00:03:01,200 Macbook Air, is the whole 40 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:06,160 brand is supposed to be efficiency. It's so efficient it efficiently gets you to 41 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:11,000 0% faster than the competition. John Deere is settling a right to repair 42 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:16,080 class action lawsuit for $99 million. 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AGAIN? 75 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:31,919 Apple's foldable iPhone just got its first dummy unit leak, courtesy of 76 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:37,040 reliable leaker Sunny Dickson. Thankfully, unreliable leaker Cloudy 77 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:43,080 Richardson was on holiday. The iPhone Fold is looking like a wide 78 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:46,240 passport-style unit with a 7.8-in inner 79 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:48,040 display and a rumored $2,000 price tag. 80 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:52,200 That'll probably go up, though. Unfortunately, the dummy lacks the 81 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:58,360 familiar MagSafe circle found on the iPhone 18 Pro. Apparently, the $600 82 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:04,560 iPhone 17e gets wireless charging, but the 2001 folds instead. 83 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:10,200 It's okay. No, you don't have to clap. It's all right. Intel has signed on to 84 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:12,120 Elon Musk's $25 billion Terafab project 85 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:17,960 in Austin, which aims to churn out a terawatt of AI compute per year to power 86 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:22,400 Tesla robots, self-driving cars, and AI data centers in space. Things I think as 87 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:27,040 a society we all desperately need right now. Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan called it a 88 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:31,160 step change in semiconductor manufacturing, and it might be. On the 89 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:34,400 other hand, the photo of these two nerds shaking hands looks less like a 90 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:39,160 partnership and more like a legally binding ritual to summon an AI 91 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:43,400 girlfriend from the astral plane. I love you, Elon. 92 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:48,240 Apple silicon-based Macs will officially support AMD and NVIDIA external GPUs for 93 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:52,919 the first time, thanks to Apple officially approving drivers from AI 94 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:58,440 startup Tiny Corp. There's a big catch, though, and that these drivers are 95 00:06:54,640 --> 00:07:00,000 strictly for AI compute, not gaming. If 96 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:04,200 you're looking for those sweet, sweet frames, look harder. Don't you see them? 97 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:08,960 There's just just thousands of them sitting perfectly still. Try harder. I 98 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:15,320 promise they're there. On April 1st, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB 99 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,760 1580 into law, banning AI companies from 100 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:20,760 advertising or representing their chatbots as qualified mental health 101 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:25,480 professionals. If they do, then they can be sued for civil damages of $5,000 per 102 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:32,080 violation. The Tennessee Senate is also debating Bill SB 1493, which would make 103 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,800 it a class A felony to knowingly train 104 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:39,640 AI to form emotional bonds or simulate a human being. If it passes, then AI 105 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:44,160 companies found in violation of the law could be liable for 150,000 106 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:49,080 per violation, and leadership of the company could be sentenced to 25 years 107 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,960 in state prison. Fingers crossed. And 108 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:58,000 actress Milla Jovovich just co-released an open-source AI memory tool called Mem 109 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:03,840 Palace aiming to help AI remember info over long conversations. The project's 110 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:06,640 GitHub repo claims a world first 96.6% 111 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:10,800 score on the long Mem Eval benchmark, which seems to be big if true. See, 112 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:15,880 after Milla's co-developer who is not a famous actress claimed that this thing 113 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:18,560 had a 100% score, community notes 114 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:23,000 appeared so fast the post is now 50% asterisk. Some users even think that 115 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:27,040 this duo hired a mystery developer to do the actual work. They didn't even vibe 116 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:30,840 coded themselves like they claimed they did. I'm just struggling to tell if this 117 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:35,120 is like a celebrity promotion or method acting for Resident Evil GitHub edition. 118 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:40,200 The confusion might be understandable though. Pull request means something 119 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:44,560 very different in Hollywood. Uh, hopefully I don't stay this size. 120 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:48,520 Whoa, wow, seems like the curse was lifted. I guess that means I should not 121 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:52,520 go back to those sketchy witches if I want to buy more graphics cards. Unlike 122 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:56,480 you who should definitely come back here Friday for some more tech news though.