That was a lot of stairs.
I just took the elevator. There's an elevator. Get out of Get out of here.
Intel might be on the verge of losing another CEO. The new guy, Lip Bhutan,
has been called out by the president of the USA. In a post on Truth Social,
Trump claims that Lip Bhutan is highly conflicted and must resign immediately.
And he might be right. I mean, if there's anybody who's an expert on being
conflicted, it's my boy DJT. >> Yeah. >> And what spurred him to make this post?
He didn't specify because you know what? He's also an expert on not providing
evidence. >> Yeah. >> But the post emerged just a day after
Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's board chair with
questions regarding Tan's investments. An April report from Reuters found that
Lip Boutan has investments in over 600 Chinese firms with at least eight of
those having ties to the Chinese military. considering Intel's role in
providing tech to the American military. Uh, and this drama is on top of the
internal beef between the CEO and his board about whether Intel should
continue trying to save its bleeding foundry business or just cut the limb
clean off. >> Get it out of here. >> Despite all that, these new statements
from Intel and Lip Boutan assure us that they are both deeply committed to
advancing US national and economic security interests. You know, bro, we're
like we're like this. Like,
hey, Intel, has your CEO considered giving his Orange Majesty a glass and
gold trophy? He loves trophies, especially ones he doesn't deserve. We
have the best trophies, China. OpenAI
has announced their latest model, Chat GPT5. In a 70-minute live stream full of
bouncing Legos shaped hands, they called GPT5 a significant step along their path
to AGI. And while you might expect that in the two years since GPT4 first
launched that there would be some groundbreaking new features, well uh
there isn't. But it seems that Sam and his Mary Altman were focused on just
making every current feature that much better. For example, now instead of
having to figure out which inscraably named AI model is best for your task,
GPT5 has some decision-making that automatically selects it for you.
However, you can summon specific models by casting an incantation like think
really hard about this one in the prompt. Or you can just pay for the pro
subscription. And if you don't want to pay, you can at least choose from four
new personalities. The cynic, the robot, the listener, and the nerd. All of this
goes towards making chat GPT sound less like an AI and >> and more like you're chatting with your
high IQ and EQ friend, >> which is such a normal way to talk about
your friends. Jeppetto 5 also brings improved vibe coding which allowed this
French developer to create an app to teach his girlfriend French so he didn't
have to. How high IQ and EQ of him. Now to their credit, many of the vibe coding
demos shown were hecking fast and made impressive products with relatively
small prompts and the benchmarks agree. OpenAI has taken the top spot across
most categories on LM Arena. But this release isn't just about chart topping
intelligence and charisma. The Altman clan are really focusing on reducing
sycophancy and hallucinations, which will hopefully prevent it from telling
me to eat sodium broomemide while also telling me that my questions are
brilliant. Oh, good question. They've also introduced what they're referring
to as safe completions. Usually, when you ask an AI chatbot to tell you how to
do something unsafe, it just won't respond. But Grand Theft Auto 5 will
provide only highlevel info without actually giving you the instructions.
>> Come on. >> And when you summarize it like that, that kind of sounds less safe.
Ironically, while they were touting the reduced deception in GPA 5, they showed
this graph where 50 is a third of the size of 47.4 and just barely larger than
9. And when it came to software engineering accuracy, we got this doozy.
Who made these graphs? AI.
What's really exciting is that the new model won't be locked behind a payw
wall. That's right. It's available to all 700 million weekly Chad GPT users.
>> Half of those are AI though. Oh god. But it seems like those users aren't very
impressed. Many are frustrated by losing access to the old models that they've
built their workflows around, while others feel like their close GPT40
companion left for the summer, found a new girlfriend, got a tattoo, and just
you're not the same anymore. >> Users have likened this new personality
to an overworked secretary, which is kind of a good metaphor for AI chat bots
in general. And still others are frustrated by the relatively low usage
limits for the free tier, pushing users towards coughing up cash for continued
access. But hey, I bet if you talk to OpenAI, they could break a $50 bill into
two $69 bills for you. And I'm going to
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It's National Quickbits Day. You can take a container of any size to the
nearest 7-Eleven and get a free slurpee. And I'll read you the quick bits.
possible last gaming graphics analysis nerds digital foundry have announced
that they are going independent. Founder Richard Leadd better thinks that the
team can be led better without corporate oversight and they've decided to no
longer be a subbrand of Eurogamer which is owned by IGN which is owned by Ze
Davis. They took an offer to buy out the remaining shares from IGN Entertainment
and are now the proud owners of all of their work. For now they'll primarily be
funded through their Patreon. I can't wait to see what Digital Foundry is
going to do. Fully on bottlenecked running at a full 120 FPS with a ray
tracing set to maxed. It's going to be so they're going to look pretty. They're
gonna they're going to look gorgeous. The next made by Google event is coming up and it's like a oversted, poorly
wrapped chipotle burrito with extra salsa. Leaky. The latest leaks showed
the new Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL will be receiving their own version of MagSafe
called Pixel Snap and a triple camera setup. Nice. In some
leaked promo videos, we also get a look at the 10 Pro Fold. Perfect for fans of
expensive, fragile things. And if you're more of a watch guy, well, the Pixel
Watch 4 will have AI support. Who knew?
With the ability to just raise your wrist quickly to access Gemini. I'm not
sure if that's going to make it hard for my watch to tell me the time or not, but
there's only one way to find out. Live long enough to see the TechLink episode
summarizing the Made by Google event, and then after that, feel free to die.
Hey, did you know that you can install Steam on your Chromebook? No? Well, good
news. Now you do. And after a long beta period, it's finally making headlines
because it's being killed. >> You still can't.
>> That's right. The dream/ nightmare of a gaming Chromebook future has been nipped
in the bud. But don't worry, you still have time. You can play any of the 99
compatible games until January 1st, 2026. After that, you won't be able to
play the games, even if they're already installed on your device. Google, that's
so cool of you. What the is wrong with you? You just did it. I have the games.
Just let me play. It's Linux. It's built on Linux. Linux plays the games. Just
play. Just what the official Windows 10 support ends October 14th, 2025. In case
you needed another reminder of Time's solemn and unending march forward. For
those of you clinging on to the past, refusing to let go, Microsoft just
sweetened the deal on their extended support program, which now covers up to
10 devices with one single ESP license.
Wake up Joe Biden. Joe Biden, wake up. You do still have to pay $30 and you
must have a Microsoft account, but you could also redeem 1,000 Microsoft
points. Better get Bing searching. And if you've been searching for a free way
to avoid Windows 11, have you considered Linux? I mean, it's not free. It only
costs your sanity.
And my sanity would be at stake if this episode went on any longer. Tune in on
Monday for more of that succulent, juicy, perfectly seasoned tech