WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 It's time for tech news, and you know what that means. 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, 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 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:20.800 turns have honestly made my head hurt, but here's our summary. Late Friday 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:23.240 evening, CEO Sam Altman was fired by the 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:26.480 four other members of the OpenAI board, while president Greg Brockman was 00:00:25.080 --> 00:00:31.200 removed as chairman. They wanted an old man. You're too much of a normal man. 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:35.800 Upon hearing the news, Greg quit and tweeted his account of recent events, 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:42.120 implying, possibly unintentionally, that OpenAI chief scientist and board member 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:43.960 Ilya Sutskever was the Brute in this 00:00:42.120 --> 00:00:47.720 Shakespearean drama. Most of you will get that. What's that knife for, bro? 00:00:45.480 --> 00:00:51.720 You too, Brutus? It's still not clear what the board's exact reasons for 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:56.560 the shakeup were, and the story is complicated by OpenAI's truly weird 00:00:54.440 --> 00:01:00.840 corporate structure, where the nonprofit board controls the capped profit 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:05.760 company. But, some speculate that Sam seeking investment for a new AI chip 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:10.760 company played a role, as OpenAI's board accused him of being not consistently 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:16.880 candid in his communications with them, despite a later memo from OpenAI COO 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:19.800 Brad Lightcap, cool name, definitively 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:23.560 claiming that Sam was not fired for malfeasance, a French word meaning 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:28.160 weasel. If that confused you, then you know how 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:33.320 everyone, including the OpenAI board, felt this weekend. They apparently 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:36.160 agreed to step down and bring back Sam 00:01:33.320 --> 00:01:41.480 and Greg, right before Microsoft swooped in and announced they'd hired Sam, Greg, 00:01:39.320 --> 00:01:48.160 and a bunch of other OpenAI employees. Right after that, OpenAI hired Twitch 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:51.240 co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO, 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:54.120 replacing day-and-a-half-old interim CEO 00:01:51.240 --> 00:01:57.320 Mira Murati, presumably because she just needed more experience. And her name 00:01:55.640 --> 00:02:01.480 sounds like a car. We can't have that. But really, Emmett may have been chosen 00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:08.240 because, like the safety-minded board members, he said he wants AI development 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:10.679 to slow down. He also said that CEO jobs 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.800 could be replaced by AI. So, slowing down means he could enjoy his new 00:02:12.040 --> 00:02:17.800 position for longer than 5 minutes. So, that's probably Emmett may soon be 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:22.680 captain of a ghost ship, though. A letter from OpenAI employees threatening 00:02:19.959 --> 00:02:27.720 to resign unless the board steps down and brings back Sam. And conduct ours to 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:34.200 the break room. And what? Was signed by 650 of the company's 770 employees on 00:02:31.600 --> 00:02:39.920 Monday morning. Including Ilya Sutskever. Et tu, Brute? What? Brutus? 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:45.720 You're back. What are you doing here? Confusingly, Ilya tweeted that he deeply 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:51.800 regrets his participation in the board's actions, a tweet Greg reposted with a 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:56.200 heart emoji. Mira Murati also replied with a heart to Sam's tweet saying, "I 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 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:05.360 whether they just don't know what emojis mean. Now, here's the real kicker. The 00:03:02.920 --> 00:03:09.920 Verge claims multiple sources are saying that Sam and Greg's Microsoft situation 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 00:03:12.160 --> 00:03:20.160 board resigns. And Sam did recently imply that the OpenAI team are all going 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:24.440 to work together some way or the other. As for Microsoft, well, they've invested 00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:28.720 billions in OpenAI. So, whether they get Sam or Sam returns to OpenAI with a new 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 00:03:31.959 --> 00:03:37.560 we're playing musical chairs, eh? 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:41.480 Okay, back to work making a digital god. This whole thing sounds like the most 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 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:48.120 myself for following it all the way through. Sunbird, the company Nothing 00:03:45.959 --> 00:03:53.560 partnered with on their Nothing Chats iMessage compatible app for Android, has 00:03:50.760 --> 00:03:57.600 apparently comically misrepresented the security of their services. Multiple 00:03:55.880 --> 00:04:01.480 professional and amateur investigators have claimed that the full contents of 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:06.720 messages sent through Sunbird's service are accessible in plain text by not only 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:11.200 Sunbird, but by anyone with a smattering of hacker know-how, despite Sunbird 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:15.160 claiming not to collect any data because they use end-to-end encryption. On 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:19.359 Twitter, Sunbird tried to dismiss security researchers' concerns, but all 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:24.880 of their points seem to have been systematically refuted by a team from 00:04:21.799 --> 00:04:27.160 texts.com. When enough had been enough, 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:32.280 nothing removed the chats beta from the Play Store on Saturday, saying they were 00:04:29.320 --> 00:04:36.080 delaying the launch to fix several bugs in what the Sunbird team's brains? 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:42.880 These are probably like southern hemisphere bugs. Like rhino beetles. Yeah. And Sunbird themselves put their 00:04:39.919 --> 00:04:47.880 services on hold. Now, this is another story where it's very unclear what's 00:04:45.400 --> 00:04:52.240 actually going on. A texts.com engineer was banned from Sunbird's Discord after 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:58.120 making a tool that lets users delete Sunbird's copies of their stored data, 00:04:54.840 --> 00:04:59.320 which Sunbird is apparently storing. You 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:05.000 know what? I think we better delay the launch though. Yeah, just let Just let it all blow over. Now, it's time for 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:09.280 quick quick shopping time. No, Dennis, not again. Is your budget 00:05:07.440 --> 00:05:13.160 small like Gladys' hand? Please, don't hang your laugh on a crappy gift this 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:17.480 holiday. Newegg is here to bring joy to your bag. With their Black Friday sales, 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:22.000 you get up to 84% off. From gaming laptops, monitors, and CPUs to printers. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:26.560 You get a GPU. You get a GPU. You get a GPU. 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Not only that, but they stand as a formidable and currently uncontested 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:06.160 entry into the niche of prosumer processors for high-end desktops. 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:11.560 Ironically, a term coined by Intel. Doesn't feel good. The top SKU, the 00:06:07.960 --> 00:06:13.920 7980X model, has 64 cores, 128 threads, 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. 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:23.520 Finally, a fitting heir to the Threadripper 3000 series. Here's hoping 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:27.720 AMD won't get bored and completely skip a generation like they did with the 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:31.760 purely hypothetical Threadripper non-pro 5000 series, just leaving the throne 00:06:30.280 --> 00:06:36.520 unfilled. It's not right. Drop the crown, king. YouTube seems to 00:06:33.919 --> 00:06:40.760 be intentionally slowing itself down on Firefox and Safari, at least for some 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:44.960 users. It looks like a hard-coded 5-second delay that disappears when the 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:48.880 site is fooled into thinking it's running on Chrome. Now, it's tempting to 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:54.080 assume that Google is simply punishing users for using a competing browser, but 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:57.840 it's also plausible that this is a bug introduced by Google's heavy-handed ad 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:02.120 block filtering. Always remember Hanlon's razor, and never attribute to 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:06.040 malice what can adequately be explained by neglect or incompetence. 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.640 Except in this case, it's you know, it's Google. 00:07:07.320 --> 00:07:13.280 They've done this before, but we don't know. NVIDIA and SK Hynix are working 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:18.400 together on a new GPU design, according to Korean news site Joong Ang. The 00:07:15.919 --> 00:07:22.960 design would have HBM4 memory chips stacked directly on top of the GPU, like 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:25.880 a hat that makes you much better at remembering what you said to Amanda in 00:07:24.640 --> 00:07:31.480 fourth grade. Like, what were you thinking? Ah, get it off! This structure 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:33.840 sounds similar to AMD's 3D V-Cache used 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:37.360 in the company's X3D processors, which are really good at gaming because they 00:07:35.760 --> 00:07:41.120 help you remember where the bomb sites are in Counter-Strike 2. That's what I 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:45.160 think they do. I I don't design processors. And, you know, Valorant for 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:50.080 the win. I don't play that either. Details of Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake 00:07:47.760 --> 00:07:55.560 MX have leaked showing that the CPU, GPU, and memory will all be on the same 00:07:52.800 --> 00:08:00.480 SOC, like Apple's unified memory architecture. Ooh, whoa. No, my watch. 00:07:58.880 --> 00:08:03.840 Stop that. This will be the first commercial release of the technology 00:08:02.280 --> 00:08:08.800 that Intel showed off to the press earlier this year at their Arizona fab. 00:08:06.320 --> 00:08:13.919 This leak is so big, it almost makes you forget that Meteor Lake the architecture 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:18.720 Lunar Lake MX is meant to replace, hasn't actually been officially released 00:08:16.320 --> 00:08:23.720 yet despite Intel's promise of a 2023 launch. But, I haven't forgotten, Pat. 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, 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:32.039 I'm not sending you a Christmas card this year. That came out of nowhere. 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:38.120 You're getting coal. An auto tech company, Valeo, is suing NVIDIA after a 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:40.440 video call gaffe exposed alleged trade 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:46.240 secret theft. Basically, a Valeo employee left for a job at NVIDIA and 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:48.400 took Valeo's work with him. This came to 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:53.560 light months later when he accidentally screen shared stolen code during a video 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:57.160 call with Valeo employees. All because one employee couldn't make a normal 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:00.800 video call mistake, like forgetting to wear clothes. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:04.200 It wouldn't be nearly as embarrassing or criminal. And you shouldn't forget to 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:08.680 come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Also, you know, 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:12.720 got to put some pants on. Just basic basic respect for me.