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Learn the news. It's December 3rd. Is that too early for Christmas music?
What? What's it Oh. Intel now owns 1% of the gaming GPU
market. Huzzah! We did it!
Yes! Now, according to Jon Peddie Research,
Intel, the multi-billion-dollar tiny underdog of the discrete GPU market, has
crawled its way up from a nearly 0%
market share. So, although 1% is a minuscule foothold, at least they're on
the mountain. JPR also shows AMD has
moved up to a 7% [music] share of the gaming GPU market, leaving NVIDIA to
still control a whopping 92%. Speaking
of AMD, though, it's been I don't want to think about that. Speaking of AMD,
it's been reported that both their CPUs and GPUs are about to see price
increases, with claims suggesting that AMD's 16 GB cards could rise as much as
$40. However, the good news is that the 25% import tax on Chinese-made
electronics that could have spiked PC component costs even more has been
delayed again all the way to November 2026. So, maybe you'll be able to afford
a GPU after all. If you do buy a new GPU
from Best Buy, at least hopefully it's actually a GPU and not just rocks, which
is apparently what Redditor nardvader received. Upon submitting a customer
service claim, they were notified by Best Buy that after its investigation,
Best Buy would not be replacing or refunding the $1,200 purchase. Talk
about a rocky customer service experience. Okay. Micron has announced
it's killing its consumer memory brand Crucial after 29 years, but it's not
because they don't love you. It's because they love money more. The
company says it needs to improve supply and support for larger strategic
customers in faster-growing segments, which is corpo speak for AI data centers
equals cash. Ow! Cha-ching! Cha-ching! Cha-ching! Cha-ching! Bling! Bling! Coins! Crucial
products will continue shipping through February 2026. Then it's goodbye forever
to the brand that's been stuffing RAM into gaming PCs since you cried to the
I'm still here song from Treasure Planet as it played on a demo TV in Radio
Shack. Remember that? I know you do. I was there. And it's not
just Micron. The memory market has gotten so chaotic that one report claims
Samsung's semiconductor division is now negotiating supply contracts with
themselves. With LPDDR5X prices more
than doubling this year, Samsung can allegedly only fulfill about 70% of its
existing DRAM orders. So, they're renegotiating the contract terms with
their own mobile division to continue putting Samsung memory into Samsung
devices. You know, family dynamics, it's tough sometimes. Now, Samsung released a
statement saying they have not rejected
certain customer requests, but that's not really what we're talking about
here. Samsung, are you okay? SK Hynix doesn't expect the shortage to be
resolved until at least the first half of 2027, but despite this, both Korean
giants will not be ramping up production, choosing to prioritize
long-term profitability and to minimize the risk of oversupply, which is corpo
speak again for holy bubble might burst at any moment, taking the US economy
with it, and we have bunkers we're trying to find it. >> [screaming]
>> So, if you're planning to upgrade your RAM anytime soon, maybe take out a
second mortgage, or just accept that 16 gigs is plenty. It's fine. It's
definitely enough to play a pirated copy of the official Treasure Planet game on
a Game Boy Advance emulator, and that's all that matters. It's the only game
that's good. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a code red, and not in the fun
Mountain Dew way, marshaling all hands to improve ChatGPT as Google's Gemini 3
steamrolls past it in industry benchmarks. Now, that's according to a
Wall Street Journal report, and it's a wild turning of the tables compared to 3
years ago when Google declared its own code red after ChatGPT launched. Since
Gemini 3 rolled out on November 18th, monthly active users have surged to 650
million, up from 450 million in July.
And in response, OpenAI is reportedly pulling back on extra bells and whistles
like its pulse recommendation feature, additional AI agents for shopping and
healthcare, and plans to bake ads [music] into ChatGPT. All the focus,
all of their efforts, on not getting bodied by Google. Altman says they'll
release a new reasoning model next week that beats Gemini 3 in their internal
evaluations. Evaluations like, who is Sam's favorite boy? And who thinks Sam
is absolutely rocking those crew neck sweaters? It better be you, new ChatGPT.
Meanwhile, Google is using its definitely AI to replace headlines in
Google's Discover feed with unrelated clickbait. For example, it turned this
headline about a Baldur's Gate 3 in-game exploit into BG3 players exploit
children. All while Grok limps along in the back of the pack as it justifies
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Time for quick bits. Five stories, 30 seconds each, zero time to process your
emotions. Let's go. India's government has decided not to force all new phones
shipped in the country to come pre-installed with a government-made cybersecurity app. The government drew
sharp criticism over the plan from the public and from Apple, who reportedly
refused to go along with it, saying the mandate didn't jive with its privacy
policies. And that's not a quote, but just imagine Tim Cook talking about
stuff not jiving with him. I think he would. Sorry, Linda. That ain't going to
jive this time. >> [laughter] >> I'm really happy about this because when
I'm in India, the only thing I want immediately installed is some delicious
shahi paneer and naan in my belly. You know what I'm saying? So, Samsung just
introduced the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold, its first triple-fold phone. The Tri-Fold is
thin and pocketable, like a phone.
Powered by a customized Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, but unlike a phone that is
not like this phone, it folds out into a full 10-in screen. As the first Tri-Fold
phone that I'm aware of to have an official North American release planned,
it's going to cost you, though. With 16 GB of memory and 512 GB of storage
priced at $2,449.
When it comes to the Tri-Fold, the real question is, who's going to fold and pay
those prices? Probably a surprising amount of people. New York now has a new
law that forces retailers to disclose when they use consumers' personal data
to set prices, aka surveillance pricing.
Online shoppers in the US state are now seeing a blunt new line under some
prices. This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data. The
law is probably clueing a lot of people into the fact that this apparently has
already been happening. Now, you'll know when you might be paying more just
because your profile is yelling, "Hey, I'm shopping here, and I have every low
price sensitivity. Also, I'm from New York, by the way."
Android 16 is getting a batch of new features, including AI notification
summaries and an AI-powered notification
organizer. Kind of a wild move considering how poorly Apple's initial
attempt at the same feature went. It was suspended after a BBC complaint about
factual errors in their news alerts. So, your notifications are about to lie to
you, and your Google Home app is getting worse because sadly, some features are
being quietly removed, like the call home feature, which used to let you call
your Google Home devices from your phone. This has left a lot of parents,
including mine, frustrated because their easy check-in method is gone. "I don't
care that dinner is in 5 minutes, Mom. I'm almost finished the solar server
level on Treasure Planet. Oh, you're so annoying. I should have moved out
already." Probably. And robotics company Engineered AI just
unveiled the T-800. Yes, it's named
after that T-800, a 1.73-m [music]
humanoid robot that, in their video, kicks in a pair of saloon doors and then
starts throwing spin kicks like my 14-year-old cousin after a white Monster
Energy drink. It's scary. The The kid.
The video also has the T-800 walk by a smaller robot about the size of
Unitree's popular G1 robot, and Unitree
took that personally. They responded by dropping a video of their 1.8-m H1 robot
absolutely wailing on the 1.3-m G1. And
I'm not sure what they were hoping for, but it looks like a fully grown adult
beating up a fourth grader. So, if my cousin shows up at your Christmas party
with a white monster, you know who to call. Unitree, eliminate the threat of
children forever. And that's a wrap. See you Friday for more tech news, more AI
chaos, and probably more reasons to wonder if we're living in a simulation
that's running out of memory. It's getting a little confu-
I was just kidding. Sorry.