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That was a lot of stairs.

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I just took the elevator. There's an elevator. Get out of Get out of here.

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Intel might be on the verge of losing another CEO. The new guy, Lip Bhutan,

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has been called out by the president of the USA. In a post on Truth Social,

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Trump claims that Lip Bhutan is highly conflicted and must resign immediately.

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And he might be right. I mean, if there's anybody who's an expert on being

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conflicted, it's my boy DJT. >> Yeah. >> And what spurred him to make this post?

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He didn't specify because you know what? He's also an expert on not providing

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evidence. >> Yeah. >> But the post emerged just a day after

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Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's board chair with

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questions regarding Tan's investments. An April report from Reuters found that

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Lip Boutan has investments in over 600 Chinese firms with at least eight of

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those having ties to the Chinese military. considering Intel's role in

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providing tech to the American military. Uh, and this drama is on top of the

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internal beef between the CEO and his board about whether Intel should

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continue trying to save its bleeding foundry business or just cut the limb

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clean off. >> Get it out of here. >> Despite all that, these new statements

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from Intel and Lip Boutan assure us that they are both deeply committed to

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advancing US national and economic security interests. You know, bro, we're

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like we're like this. Like,

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hey, Intel, has your CEO considered giving his Orange Majesty a glass and

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gold trophy? He loves trophies, especially ones he doesn't deserve. We

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have the best trophies, China. OpenAI

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has announced their latest model, Chat GPT5. In a 70-minute live stream full of

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bouncing Legos shaped hands, they called GPT5 a significant step along their path

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to AGI. And while you might expect that in the two years since GPT4 first

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launched that there would be some groundbreaking new features, well uh

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there isn't. But it seems that Sam and his Mary Altman were focused on just

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making every current feature that much better. For example, now instead of

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having to figure out which inscraably named AI model is best for your task,

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GPT5 has some decision-making that automatically selects it for you.

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However, you can summon specific models by casting an incantation like think

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really hard about this one in the prompt. Or you can just pay for the pro

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subscription. And if you don't want to pay, you can at least choose from four

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new personalities. The cynic, the robot, the listener, and the nerd. All of this

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goes towards making chat GPT sound less like an AI and >> and more like you're chatting with your

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high IQ and EQ friend, >> which is such a normal way to talk about

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your friends. Jeppetto 5 also brings improved vibe coding which allowed this

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French developer to create an app to teach his girlfriend French so he didn't

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have to. How high IQ and EQ of him. Now to their credit, many of the vibe coding

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demos shown were hecking fast and made impressive products with relatively

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small prompts and the benchmarks agree. OpenAI has taken the top spot across

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most categories on LM Arena. But this release isn't just about chart topping

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intelligence and charisma. The Altman clan are really focusing on reducing

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sycophancy and hallucinations, which will hopefully prevent it from telling

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me to eat sodium broomemide while also telling me that my questions are

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brilliant. Oh, good question. They've also introduced what they're referring

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to as safe completions. Usually, when you ask an AI chatbot to tell you how to

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do something unsafe, it just won't respond. But Grand Theft Auto 5 will

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provide only highlevel info without actually giving you the instructions.

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>> Come on. >> And when you summarize it like that, that kind of sounds less safe.

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Ironically, while they were touting the reduced deception in GPA 5, they showed

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this graph where 50 is a third of the size of 47.4 and just barely larger than

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9. And when it came to software engineering accuracy, we got this doozy.

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Who made these graphs? AI.

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What's really exciting is that the new model won't be locked behind a payw

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wall. That's right. It's available to all 700 million weekly Chad GPT users.

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>> Half of those are AI though. Oh god. But it seems like those users aren't very

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impressed. Many are frustrated by losing access to the old models that they've

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built their workflows around, while others feel like their close GPT40

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companion left for the summer, found a new girlfriend, got a tattoo, and just

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you're not the same anymore. >> Users have likened this new personality

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to an overworked secretary, which is kind of a good metaphor for AI chat bots

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in general. And still others are frustrated by the relatively low usage

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limits for the free tier, pushing users towards coughing up cash for continued

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access. But hey, I bet if you talk to OpenAI, they could break a $50 bill into

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It's National Quickbits Day. You can take a container of any size to the

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nearest 7-Eleven and get a free slurpee. And I'll read you the quick bits.

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possible last gaming graphics analysis nerds digital foundry have announced

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that they are going independent. Founder Richard Leadd better thinks that the

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team can be led better without corporate oversight and they've decided to no

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longer be a subbrand of Eurogamer which is owned by IGN which is owned by Ze

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Davis. They took an offer to buy out the remaining shares from IGN Entertainment

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and are now the proud owners of all of their work. For now they'll primarily be

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funded through their Patreon. I can't wait to see what Digital Foundry is

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going to do. Fully on bottlenecked running at a full 120 FPS with a ray

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tracing set to maxed. It's going to be so they're going to look pretty. They're

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gonna they're going to look gorgeous. The next made by Google event is coming up and it's like a oversted, poorly

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wrapped chipotle burrito with extra salsa. Leaky. The latest leaks showed

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the new Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL will be receiving their own version of MagSafe

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called Pixel Snap and a triple camera setup. Nice. In some

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leaked promo videos, we also get a look at the 10 Pro Fold. Perfect for fans of

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expensive, fragile things. And if you're more of a watch guy, well, the Pixel

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Watch 4 will have AI support. Who knew?

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With the ability to just raise your wrist quickly to access Gemini. I'm not

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sure if that's going to make it hard for my watch to tell me the time or not, but

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there's only one way to find out. Live long enough to see the TechLink episode

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summarizing the Made by Google event, and then after that, feel free to die.

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Hey, did you know that you can install Steam on your Chromebook? No? Well, good

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news. Now you do. And after a long beta period, it's finally making headlines

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because it's being killed. >> You still can't.

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>> That's right. The dream/ nightmare of a gaming Chromebook future has been nipped

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in the bud. But don't worry, you still have time. You can play any of the 99

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compatible games until January 1st, 2026. After that, you won't be able to

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play the games, even if they're already installed on your device. Google, that's

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so cool of you. What the is wrong with you? You just did it. I have the games.

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Just let me play. It's Linux. It's built on Linux. Linux plays the games. Just

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play. Just what the official Windows 10 support ends October 14th, 2025. In case

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you needed another reminder of Time's solemn and unending march forward. For

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those of you clinging on to the past, refusing to let go, Microsoft just

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sweetened the deal on their extended support program, which now covers up to

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10 devices with one single ESP license.

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Wake up Joe Biden. Joe Biden, wake up. You do still have to pay $30 and you

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must have a Microsoft account, but you could also redeem 1,000 Microsoft

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points. Better get Bing searching. And if you've been searching for a free way

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to avoid Windows 11, have you considered Linux? I mean, it's not free. It only

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costs your sanity.

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And my sanity would be at stake if this episode went on any longer. Tune in on

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Monday for more of that succulent, juicy, perfectly seasoned tech