1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 It's time for tech news, and you know what that means. 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:11,240 I know what it means, but I Why don't you say it so I know you know? So, 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:15,760 OpenAI just had a weekend that puts the one at Bernie's to shame. The twists and 4 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:20,800 turns have honestly made my head hurt, but here's our summary. Late Friday 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:23,240 evening, CEO Sam Altman was fired by the 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:26,480 four other members of the OpenAI board, while president Greg Brockman was 7 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:31,200 removed as chairman. They wanted an old man. You're too much of a normal man. 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:35,800 Upon hearing the news, Greg quit and tweeted his account of recent events, 9 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:42,120 implying, possibly unintentionally, that OpenAI chief scientist and board member 10 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:43,960 Ilya Sutskever was the Brute in this 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:47,720 Shakespearean drama. Most of you will get that. What's that knife for, bro? 12 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:51,720 You too, Brutus? It's still not clear what the board's exact reasons for 13 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:56,560 the shakeup were, and the story is complicated by OpenAI's truly weird 14 00:00:54,440 --> 00:01:00,840 corporate structure, where the nonprofit board controls the capped profit 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:05,760 company. But, some speculate that Sam seeking investment for a new AI chip 16 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:10,760 company played a role, as OpenAI's board accused him of being not consistently 17 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:16,880 candid in his communications with them, despite a later memo from OpenAI COO 18 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:19,800 Brad Lightcap, cool name, definitively 19 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:23,560 claiming that Sam was not fired for malfeasance, a French word meaning 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:28,160 weasel. If that confused you, then you know how 21 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:33,320 everyone, including the OpenAI board, felt this weekend. They apparently 22 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:36,160 agreed to step down and bring back Sam 23 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:41,480 and Greg, right before Microsoft swooped in and announced they'd hired Sam, Greg, 24 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:48,160 and a bunch of other OpenAI employees. Right after that, OpenAI hired Twitch 25 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:51,240 co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO, 26 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:54,120 replacing day-and-a-half-old interim CEO 27 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:57,320 Mira Murati, presumably because she just needed more experience. And her name 28 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:01,480 sounds like a car. We can't have that. But really, Emmett may have been chosen 29 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:08,240 because, like the safety-minded board members, he said he wants AI development 30 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:10,679 to slow down. He also said that CEO jobs 31 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:13,800 could be replaced by AI. So, slowing down means he could enjoy his new 32 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:17,800 position for longer than 5 minutes. So, that's probably Emmett may soon be 33 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:22,680 captain of a ghost ship, though. A letter from OpenAI employees threatening 34 00:02:19,959 --> 00:02:27,720 to resign unless the board steps down and brings back Sam. And conduct ours to 35 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:34,200 the break room. And what? Was signed by 650 of the company's 770 employees on 36 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:39,920 Monday morning. Including Ilya Sutskever. Et tu, Brute? What? Brutus? 37 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:45,720 You're back. What are you doing here? Confusingly, Ilya tweeted that he deeply 38 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:51,800 regrets his participation in the board's actions, a tweet Greg reposted with a 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:56,200 heart emoji. Mira Murati also replied with a heart to Sam's tweet saying, "I 40 00:02:54,440 --> 00:03:00,519 love OpenAI." So, I don't know whether these people are actually still trying to be friends despite all the drama or 41 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:05,360 whether they just don't know what emojis mean. Now, here's the real kicker. The 42 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:09,920 Verge claims multiple sources are saying that Sam and Greg's Microsoft situation 43 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:15,120 isn't a done deal and that they are still willing to return to OpenAI if the 44 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:20,160 board resigns. And Sam did recently imply that the OpenAI team are all going 45 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,440 to work together some way or the other. As for Microsoft, well, they've invested 46 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:28,720 billions in OpenAI. So, whether they get Sam or Sam returns to OpenAI with a new 47 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:35,000 board, this is really a win-win for them. And hey, how about a seat for old Satya while 48 00:03:31,959 --> 00:03:37,560 we're playing musical chairs, eh? 49 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:41,480 Okay, back to work making a digital god. This whole thing sounds like the most 50 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,959 hard to follow polycule I've ever heard in my life. Honestly, I'm just proud of 51 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:48,120 myself for following it all the way through. Sunbird, the company Nothing 52 00:03:45,959 --> 00:03:53,560 partnered with on their Nothing Chats iMessage compatible app for Android, has 53 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:57,600 apparently comically misrepresented the security of their services. Multiple 54 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:01,480 professional and amateur investigators have claimed that the full contents of 55 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:06,720 messages sent through Sunbird's service are accessible in plain text by not only 56 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:11,200 Sunbird, but by anyone with a smattering of hacker know-how, despite Sunbird 57 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:15,160 claiming not to collect any data because they use end-to-end encryption. On 58 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:19,359 Twitter, Sunbird tried to dismiss security researchers' concerns, but all 59 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:24,880 of their points seem to have been systematically refuted by a team from 60 00:04:21,799 --> 00:04:27,160 texts.com. When enough had been enough, 61 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:32,280 nothing removed the chats beta from the Play Store on Saturday, saying they were 62 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:36,080 delaying the launch to fix several bugs in what the Sunbird team's brains? 63 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:42,880 These are probably like southern hemisphere bugs. Like rhino beetles. Yeah. And Sunbird themselves put their 64 00:04:39,919 --> 00:04:47,880 services on hold. Now, this is another story where it's very unclear what's 65 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:52,240 actually going on. 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Not only that, but they stand as a formidable and currently uncontested 83 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:06,160 entry into the niche of prosumer processors for high-end desktops. 84 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:11,560 Ironically, a term coined by Intel. Doesn't feel good. The top SKU, the 85 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:13,920 7980X model, has 64 cores, 128 threads, 86 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:18,800 a base clock of 2.5 GHz, and a turbo clock that can hit up to 5.1 GHz. 87 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:23,520 Finally, a fitting heir to the Threadripper 3000 series. Here's hoping 88 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:27,720 AMD won't get bored and completely skip a generation like they did with the 89 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:31,760 purely hypothetical Threadripper non-pro 5000 series, just leaving the throne 90 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:36,520 unfilled. It's not right. Drop the crown, king. YouTube seems to 91 00:06:33,919 --> 00:06:40,760 be intentionally slowing itself down on Firefox and Safari, at least for some 92 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:44,960 users. It looks like a hard-coded 5-second delay that disappears when the 93 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,880 site is fooled into thinking it's running on Chrome. Now, it's tempting to 94 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:54,080 assume that Google is simply punishing users for using a competing browser, but 95 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:57,840 it's also plausible that this is a bug introduced by Google's heavy-handed ad 96 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:02,120 block filtering. Always remember Hanlon's razor, and never attribute to 97 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:06,040 malice what can adequately be explained by neglect or incompetence. 98 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,640 Except in this case, it's you know, it's Google. 99 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:13,280 They've done this before, but we don't know. NVIDIA and SK Hynix are working 100 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:18,400 together on a new GPU design, according to Korean news site Joong Ang. The 101 00:07:15,919 --> 00:07:22,960 design would have HBM4 memory chips stacked directly on top of the GPU, like 102 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,880 a hat that makes you much better at remembering what you said to Amanda in 103 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:31,480 fourth grade. Like, what were you thinking? Ah, get it off! This structure 104 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:33,840 sounds similar to AMD's 3D V-Cache used 105 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:37,360 in the company's X3D processors, which are really good at gaming because they 106 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:41,120 help you remember where the bomb sites are in Counter-Strike 2. That's what I 107 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:45,160 think they do. I I don't design processors. And, you know, Valorant for 108 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:50,080 the win. I don't play that either. Details of Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake 109 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:55,560 MX have leaked showing that the CPU, GPU, and memory will all be on the same 110 00:07:52,800 --> 00:08:00,480 SOC, like Apple's unified memory architecture. Ooh, whoa. No, my watch. 111 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:03,840 Stop that. This will be the first commercial release of the technology 112 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:08,800 that Intel showed off to the press earlier this year at their Arizona fab. 113 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:13,919 This leak is so big, it almost makes you forget that Meteor Lake the architecture 114 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:18,720 Lunar Lake MX is meant to replace, hasn't actually been officially released 115 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:23,720 yet despite Intel's promise of a 2023 launch. But, I haven't forgotten, Pat. 116 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:27,880 Your mind tricks don't work on me. And if you paper launch the Meteor Lake you, 117 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:32,039 I'm not sending you a Christmas card this year. That came out of nowhere. 118 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:38,120 You're getting coal. An auto tech company, Valeo, is suing NVIDIA after a 119 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,440 video call gaffe exposed alleged trade 120 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:46,240 secret theft. Basically, a Valeo employee left for a job at NVIDIA and 121 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:48,400 took Valeo's work with him. This came to 122 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:53,560 light months later when he accidentally screen shared stolen code during a video 123 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:57,160 call with Valeo employees. All because one employee couldn't make a normal 124 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,800 video call mistake, like forgetting to wear clothes. 125 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:04,200 It wouldn't be nearly as embarrassing or criminal. And you shouldn't forget to 126 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:08,680 come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Also, you know, 127 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,720 got to put some pants on. Just basic basic respect for me.