1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,759 Every company in Silicon Valley says they're making the world a better place. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:09,519 We're not going to do that. We're just going to tell you what those companies 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:14,240 actually did this week, which is usually much worse. Okay, tech news time. Google 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:19,600 Research published a blog post this week on Turbo Quant, a compression algorithm 5 00:00:17,279 --> 00:00:26,680 that shrinks an AI models working memory by six times with zero accuracy loss, 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,680 leading people to ask, 7 00:00:27,039 --> 00:00:33,920 "Is the memory crisis over? Can we buy RAM yet? Well, we're here to give you a 8 00:00:32,239 --> 00:00:40,079 definitive maybe. You see, Turbo Quant targets the 9 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:43,520 key value cache. Basically, when you chat with an AI, it keeps a running 10 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:48,640 record of your conversation so it doesn't lose context. As a result, that 11 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:52,640 cache eats more GPU memory the longer you talk, and you talk a for a long 12 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:56,960 time, making it one of the biggest bottlenecks in running these models at 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:01,760 scale. Most existing compression methods carry memory overhead which decreases 14 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:06,000 their efficiency. But Turbo Quant eliminates that through circle math. Is 15 00:01:05,119 --> 00:01:08,960 this real? >> Yeah, you you said to to simplify it, 16 00:01:08,479 --> 00:01:16,000 right? >> They use circle math leading to up to an eight time speed up on NVIDIA H100 GPUs. 17 00:01:14,479 --> 00:01:19,840 The underlying research is actually about a year old, but it's getting 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:26,320 attention now ahead of its presentation at ICLR 2026. The news sent finance bros 19 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:31,680 into a tail spin and memory stocks like Micron and SanDisk tumbled in response. 20 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:35,680 However, analysts say this is likely another deepseek moment where the 21 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:40,640 release of a cheaper AI model back in 2025 caused a trillion dollar market 22 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:47,200 panic before everyone realized that cheaper AI just means more people using 23 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:49,200 AI. Uh SanDisk's CFO told Bank of 24 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:54,399 America analysts that he expects the improved efficiency will boost demand by 25 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:58,159 making AI deployments cheaper. So if you were holding your breath hoping that 26 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:02,479 this killed the memory crunch, maybe hold your breath a little less hard. 27 00:02:00,799 --> 00:02:07,360 Stop. Stop holding your breath. YOU'RE YOU'RE GOING BREATHE. Please live. Apple 28 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:12,800 has officially confirmed they are discontinuing the Mac Pro with no plans 29 00:02:10,399 --> 00:02:17,760 for future hardware. The company quietly pulled the former king of Macs from its 30 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:22,000 website yesterday, where the buy page now just redirects to the Mac homepage. 31 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:27,120 Kind of like how your landlord changes the locks while you're at work all the 32 00:02:24,319 --> 00:02:33,519 time. The iconic cheese grater design debuted in 2019 after the thermal 33 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,519 disaster of the trash can era. Well, I 34 00:02:33,519 --> 00:02:42,560 liked it. But Apple only ever gave it one silicon update, the M2 Ultra in 2023 35 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:48,560 before leaving it to collect dust at its $7,000 starting price or collect trash. 36 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:55,840 The Mac Studio, which already has the newer M3 Ultra for $5,000 less, is now 37 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:58,560 Apple's topend desktop with an M5 Ultra 38 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:06,000 refresh expected later this year. Also gone is the infamous $700 wheel kit. No, 39 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:08,000 the $300 F feet kit. Oh, wow. And as of 40 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,800 earlier this month, the older Pro Display XDR and its $1,000 stand. Apple 41 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:18,480 is clearly marondoing everything from the 2019 Pro launch. But how am I 42 00:03:16,959 --> 00:03:23,280 supposed to grate my incredibly expensive mature Coolia cheese while 43 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:27,440 rendering on silicon that's three generations out of date now? You didn't 44 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:32,720 think of that, Apple, did you? >> Oh gosh. I'm sorry, Riley. I'll make 45 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:36,720 something else. screamingly expensive for you. 46 00:03:33,519 --> 00:03:40,720 >> Thank you, Tim Cook. God, AMD has 47 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:43,280 announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 48 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:48,159 dual edition. And yes, that is a real product name. It's the world's first 49 00:03:44,959 --> 00:03:50,319 desktop CPU with 3D Vcash stacked on 50 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:57,120 both chiplets, meaning it packs a staggering 208 megabytes of total onchip 51 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:58,799 cache across its 16 Zen 5 cores. That's 52 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:03,040 enough cash to make it feel at home in the vault of the Bellagio in Oceans 11. 53 00:04:01,519 --> 00:04:07,519 And you don't even need to squeeze an ordinary gymnast into a room service 54 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:12,159 card to access it. AMD is pitching this less as a gaming chip and more as a 55 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:18,160 productivity monster for game devs and creators with 5 to 10% gains over the 56 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:20,880 already beastly 9950X3D. 57 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:26,080 No two in tools like Blender, Da Vinci Resolve, and Unreal Engine. Notably, AMD 58 00:04:23,919 --> 00:04:29,840 didn't share a single gaming benchmark, which really tells you where they think 59 00:04:27,759 --> 00:04:36,240 this thing shines. The trade-off, though, a 200 watt TDP, the highest of 60 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:41,919 any AM5 chip, and a boost clock that actually dropped 100 megahertz. No price 61 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:46,960 yet, but it launches April 22nd. Oh, and both AMD and Intel are raising CPU 62 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:51,680 prices up to 15% thanks to the whole global supply crunch fiasco. 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A new 79 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:05,280 revision of the RCS messaging standard has been finalized, and it's a big one. 80 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:09,759 RCS Universal Profile 4.0 adds native video calling right inside 81 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:14,479 your messaging app, including group calls with up to 32 people. If you can 82 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:18,400 convince 32 people to use the same messaging app as you, it also brings 83 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:22,479 smarter media sharing, letting devices figure out which formats the other 84 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:26,160 person supports, as well as rich text formatting like bold, italics, and 85 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,360 strikethrough. Finally, we'll have to wait for tech companies to add these 86 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:33,680 features to their default texting apps, but it's still cool. So, while the cost 87 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:39,919 of living might be skyrocketing, you'll at least be rich in text. 88 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:45,600 Apple just handed over the real identity of the user behind one of its iCloud 89 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:48,319 hide my email aliases to the FBI after a 90 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:53,120 man named Alden Ruml used an aliased email address to send violent threats to 91 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:56,960 FBI Director Cash Patel's girlfriend. Two horrible things. This kind of 92 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:01,680 compliance might seem uncharacteristic for Apple who famously blocked the 93 00:06:59,199 --> 00:07:06,240 government from breaking into the iPhone owned by a suspected terrorist, but 94 00:07:03,919 --> 00:07:11,599 unlike their device level encryption, alias to account mapping is stored on 95 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:16,319 Apple servers and as a result can be subpoenaed. The hits keep coming for 96 00:07:13,599 --> 00:07:21,360 Patel, though, as Iranian hacker group Hondela breached Patel's personal Gmail 97 00:07:19,199 --> 00:07:27,120 account and posted some of his most cringe vacation photos on Telegram. Oof, 98 00:07:25,039 --> 00:07:32,160 Honda did him dirty here. The vibe of these is less international man of 99 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:37,360 mystery and more high school jazz band study abroad trip. It's an important 100 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:39,840 experience. Sony is hiking PS5 prices 101 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:45,039 across the board for the second time in less than a year. Starting on April 2nd, 102 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:51,039 the PlayStation Portal handheld jumps up $50. The standard PS5 and digital 103 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:54,240 edition both jump up $100, and the PS5 104 00:07:51,039 --> 00:07:55,759 Pro climbs a cool 150 all the way up to 105 00:07:54,240 --> 00:08:00,319 $900 for a console. Sony blamed continued 106 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:05,120 pressures in the global economic landscape, which is fair. Lucky for us 107 00:08:02,639 --> 00:08:09,280 though, Sony has decided to bravely pass those costs onto their consumers. They 108 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:13,680 got they got mouse to feed. We, you know, we we'll survive. Wikipedia has 109 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:18,080 officially banned the use of AI to generate or rewrite articles with 110 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:22,639 editors voting overwhelmingly in favor of the new policy. LLM generated text 111 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:27,440 was found to regularly violate the site's core context rules around 112 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:32,479 verifiability and sourcing, which yeah, hallucinations uh will do that. Editors 113 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:36,880 can still use AI for basic copy editing and translation assistance, but only 114 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:41,279 with human review. So maybe your middle school teacher was right all along. 115 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:46,560 That's one for you, Madam Ruseelle. But I should still be allowed to chew gum in 116 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,360 class, so I still don't like you. And a 117 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:54,080 delivery robot made by Serve Robotics has smashed through the glass wall of a 118 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:59,839 bus stop shelter in Chicago before sheepishly blinking and then shambling 119 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:02,160 away shamefully. The footage, which is 120 00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:06,320 hilarious, went viral on social media and it comes amid growing backlash 121 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:11,600 against delivery robots in the city. According to the Chicago Sun Times, a 122 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:16,240 separate Cocoa Robotics bot smashed into yet another bus shelter that same week, 123 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,959 making the successful delivery to smashed bus stop ratio lower than 124 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:24,959 residents would hope. It's not what we were going for. Just like I hope to see 125 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:29,440 you back here on Monday for more tech news. I'll be here next week pretending 126 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:34,320 I understand what half these companies actually do, which as far as I can tell 127 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:39,200 is something to do with something called middle out compression. I don't know. 128 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:39,200 Anyway, see you then.