look I wish I could say that Apple announced a sentient robot that can do
perfect Tim Cook Impressions so I don't have to but no it's iPads Apple made a
series of big announcements today most notably the launch of the new M4 chip
which the company says is designed to be an AI Powerhouse so obviously Apple will
be launching it first in their new iPad Pro so your mom's next tablet it's going
to be it's going to be jacked that is unless she goes with the new m two
powered iPad Air which bizarrely is ever so slightly heavier and thicker than
either the 11in or 13in Pro Models what
are we doing here the M4 is a 3
nanometer chip with four performance cores and six efficiency cores plus an
upgraded neural engine that Apple says is quote more powerful than any aipc
available today but the Snapdragon X laptops aren't out yet and that sounds
like fear I can smell it the m4's GPU has also been upgraded and it means that
the new iPad Pro will be the first iPad to feature Ray tracing and Hardware
accelerated mesh shading so you heard it here first PC Gamers time to throw your
computer in the garbage okay drop kick that thing according to Apple the new
chip is 50% faster than the M2 which is
always what they do they we're not comparing it to the M3 and it's twice as
efficient Apple also launched the new pencil Pro which they say is loaded with
tech back to the gills and it can do a barrel
roll though I'm not sure why it would have to unless you're a graphic artist
trying to work while taking enemy fire just kidding that would be useful
for altering the pen stroke as you as you work continuing another fine Apple
tradition the pen also has zero backwards compatibility and will only
function with m4 model iPad pros and M2
model iPad Airs for what reason ah but
if you're not immediately looking to invest in an iPad but you'd still like a
taste of Apple AI accelerated Hardware well you're in luck if you also happen
to be an AI Data Center Apple is apparently working on dedicated chips
for commercial AI processing purposes okay that's according to reporting from
The Wall Street Journal who I trust because they're named after three of my
favorite inanimate
objects open AI has reportedly developing a chat gbt powered search
engine this is according to a Bloomberg Source familiar with the matter but
there's also been a recent registration for the domain search. chaty bt.com
which must mean something a serious Chad gbt search function could potentially
rival Google search so long as it doesn't share the same downsides as
Google's own AI infused search features which recently told internet funnyman at
drill that the best way to pass a kidney stone was to drink large volumes of piss
you don't know until you tried it Chachi PT can already pull up some search
results for certain queries such as weather info however this feature is
only available to paid users and its current capabilities are extremely
narrow open aai hasn't confirmed this potential new search feature but they
have stated that they're developing a new tool called media manager which will
allow creators and content owners to flag their works as available or
unavailable for use in AI training the company will also be launching a tool
that can detect images created by doll E3 now in other maybe maybe not open AI
news the mysterious and extremely powerful AI model that briefly appeared
on the LM CIS benchmarking site under the name gpt2 chatbot has apparently
resurfaced under the names I'm a good
gp22 chatbot and I'm also a good gpt2
chatbot don't get it mixed up the first time gpt2 showed up there was
uncertainty about what the heck it was but this time a day before it reappeared
open aai CEO Sam ultman tweeted I'm a
good gp22 chatbot seemingly confirming
that these are two new models that open AI is testing or possibly that Sam Alman
has been an AI chap out this entire time can't wait until they launch Sam Alman
too the original guy was just Sam man and then they kept iterating bite
dance is suing the United States government over its decision to ban Tik
Tock next January unless bite Dan sells the app according to the suit Congress
is using a nebulous and unpr proven threat to National Security to justify
what is otherwise an infringement upon American Tik Tok users First Amendment
rights the American government insists that their law is not a ban but rather a
forced divestment of course B Dan probably can't sell Tik Tok even if they
wanted to because the Chinese government would have to consent to this sale which
is not going to it's kind of a leave room for Jesus situation but instead of
the Son of God it's xiin ping accordingly bite dance argues that Tik
Tock is being held to a different standard than other similar platforms
such as X forly known as Twitter whose
second largest investor is a Saudi Prince and look I know Saudi Arabia is
technically a US Ally but just because someone's supposed to be your friend
doesn't mean they're not also a brutal authoritarian dictatorship I mean we
didn't know the US does have a history of restricting foreign ownership of TV
and radio stations but there's some argument that a private platform
featuring user generated content isn't quite the same thing
American Tik Tok users could always switch to another similar platform or
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wall whose bits are the quickest of them
all Snow White
oh she gets all the mirror Stuff AC may
have leaked the new naming scheme for AMD's mobile chips and it's bad
according to a now deleted page of ASUS website the company's upcoming viob book
16 OLED laptops will be powered by a
ryzen ai9 hx1
170 a CPU whose name seems to have more
subtitles than Daenerys Targaryen some Outlets are comparing the AI part of the
name to Intel's Ultra branding but it
seems more obvious that it's a continuation of the ongoing Trend to put
AI in everything AI I put that on
everything un ironically that's what's happening where's the
beef Boeing has admitted that employees
had been skipping inspections of their 787 Dreamliner airplanes but marking the
work as complete anyway while a worker
at Boeing was praised for reporting the issue to the company in an email to
employees a report from safety experts in February found Boeing had major
issues with its safety culture claiming that many employees feared retaliation
for reporting safety concerns hopefully Boeing can fix their culture soon since
they're trying to launch a spacecraft to the ISS also maybe Boeing should try
mastering airplanes before moving on to the final boss of non-terrestrial travel
I don't know just an idea Intel and Qualcomm have been forbidden from
exporting any of their chips to Huawei on Tuesday the US government revoked
both companies licenses to export what few processors they were still allowed
to sell to the baguer Chinese Tech Giant but economics are a funny thing the move
actually looks like it will hurt Intel's bottom line while Huawei seems to be
doing just fine thanks to China Investing heavily in chip development in
response to us trade restrictions restrictions I'm Sean
connory we started with Banning chip sales to China and then we tried to ban
Tik Tok and it really should have been the other way around Micron and Lenovo
have released the first laptops compatible with the new LP cam 2
standard a new memory format that's significantly faster more efficient and
more compact than the old so dim RAM modules we're all used to it's also a
lot easier to replace or upgrade compared to soldered RAM I fix it called
it awesome and they were so excited they even said the word
heck what Micron is currently shipping their first modules which can either be
bought individually or as part of lenovo's 7th gen ThinkPad P1 workstation
laptop though I'm not sure why you'd buy it on its own without the only device
it's currently compatible with maybe just a look at it's Jessica really likes
it it's pretty it's it's beautiful and
Microsoft has provided us spy agencies with a generative AI model based on gp4
that can be run locally according to a report from Bloomberg every service
based on open AI models other than this one has to call the company servers to
function Bloomberg quotes a senior executive at Microsoft as saying it's
the first time a major large language model has operated fully separated from
the internet completely ignoring meta's llama models in what I can only assume
is an attempt to start a Dis Track battle with Mark Zuckerberg good luck I
can't wait the Kendrick and Drake thing have slowed down I need my fix and we
might have to start a Dis Track battle with you if you don't come back on
Friday for more Tech news and let's be honest neither of one of us wants that
I've been doing some research and I got a lot of dirt on you okay let's be smart
here