1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:06,960 Whoa. Computex, Google IO, Microsoft Build, somehow even more stuff. You 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,960 know, it's a good thing I had a nice relaxing long weekend because it turns 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:15,679 out what I was coming back to is tech news. Hell, there's nashing of teeth and 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:21,080 magic smoke. Let's start with the biggest news out of Computex, new GPUs. 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:28,560 AMD finally officially revealed the RX960 XT will launch on June 5th with an 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:31,920 8 GB variant for 300 USD and a 16 GB 7 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:34,840 version for 350. That places the 16 gig 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:42,079 one quite favorably compared to NVIDIA's $380 RTX 560Ti 8 GB. I just hope AMD 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:46,800 isn't lying about it having 15% more gaming performance per dollar because 10 00:00:44,239 --> 00:00:50,800 CEO Lisa Sue is a doctor and that would be medical malpractice. AMD also 11 00:00:48,800 --> 00:01:00,520 announced new professional Threadripper 9000 series CPUs with up to 96 cores and 12 00:00:54,719 --> 00:01:03,600 a Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU with 32 GB of 13 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:05,760 RAM. RAM, that is. Let's hope AMD 14 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:10,320 provides drivers for their new GPUs ahead of time so reviewers can do their 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:14,960 job, which, you know, is normally what happens, but you never know in these 16 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,439 wacky times when, according to myriad 17 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:24,479 tech reviewers, NVIDIA only allowed some outlets to publish previews ahead of the 18 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:26,799 RTX 5060's launch on Monday under strict 19 00:01:24,479 --> 00:01:31,119 conditions, including being limited to testing certain games and capping every 20 00:01:29,119 --> 00:01:36,240 email back to NVIDIA with, "Hail Jensen." Despite being at Computex once 21 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:41,280 the public drivers dropped, hardware unboxed, stayed up through the night 22 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:45,600 like champions to test the 5060 with some loaned parts from MSI and some 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:51,920 other proper reviews are starting to trickle out as well, which well actually 24 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:54,079 they don't make the $300 card look too 25 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:59,840 bad in terms of price to performance. Although the 8 gigs of VRAM trips it up 26 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,920 in places and MSRP is a social construct 27 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:06,960 with no inherent meaning. just like the concept of outside. Meanwhile, Intel 28 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:13,760 didn't reveal more gaming cards, instead unveiling the Ark Pro B50 and B60 at 29 00:02:10,399 --> 00:02:15,680 around $300 and $500, respectively. 30 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:20,000 That's a ballpark because they'll only be available inside pre-built 31 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:24,200 workstations in a variety of fun third-party designs like the dual GPU 32 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:29,800 version from Maxon. So cool. What's even cooler 33 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:36,959 though is Intel's name for their new multi-GPU feature, Project Battle 34 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:39,519 Matrix. Just yeah. It'll allow up 35 00:02:36,959 --> 00:02:46,319 to eight Arc Pro GPUs to link together to make up to 192 GB of pulled VRAM 36 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,920 available for AI workloads. On paper, 37 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:53,920 that's actually more capable than an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000, which would still 38 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:59,040 be much more expensive. So, watch out NVIDIA. You're going down any day now. I 39 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,800 I feel it. Now it's Google's turn on the mic, which is an appropriate thing to 40 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:07,440 say because at their IO conference, the tech giant showed off another 41 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:13,200 existential crisis generator. I mean AI video generator. Their newest model V3 42 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:19,920 can generate photorealistic video and sound effects and lip-sync spoken 43 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:25,680 dialogue from a single prompt. 44 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:27,840 I am an idiot sandwich. I'm not sure I 45 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:32,080 can go on. I am also not sure I can go on, but at 46 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:37,319 least it's all marked right in the metadata with Google's synth ID. Now, 47 00:03:34,799 --> 00:03:41,360 that might make it easier to identify non-consensual intimate images, 48 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,920 including deep fakes, which were just made illegal with the passing of the 49 00:03:43,519 --> 00:03:50,080 Take It Down Act, a seemingly well-intentioned law that privacy groups 50 00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:55,120 are concerned could be used for censorship. There's lots to talk about 51 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,760 there, but there's no time. Google V3 is 52 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:04,319 available in the Gemini app or in the new Google Flow AI video editing tool 53 00:04:00,799 --> 00:04:08,000 for subscribers to Google AI Ultra, a 54 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:10,480 brand new all you can slop $250 plan 55 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:14,239 that also has YouTube Premium in there just for fun. Google did their usual 56 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:18,639 thing where they mixed together a whack ton of announcements for things you can 57 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:23,600 try now along with things that exist in a liinal non-real dimension known as the 58 00:04:21,919 --> 00:04:28,240 coming months. So here's the stuff that's available nowish for AI 59 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:33,199 subscribers. Gemini is finally getting baked into Chrome, and Gemini is going 60 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:38,960 to start adapting its responses using your personal context, just like Apple 61 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:42,479 said Siri would do before they scrubbed most of their online references to it. 62 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:47,840 Google said this will allow you to generate more personalized replies in 63 00:04:44,639 --> 00:04:49,440 Gmail, so you can be a better friend who 64 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:54,560 tricks your loved ones into thinking you took the time to write a reply when you 65 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:58,720 didn't. They look so dumb right now. This is friendship. Gemini Live with 66 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:03,919 camera and screen sharing is now available for everyone, which is cool. 67 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:08,800 While AI mode is getting a wider roll out to infect more search queries in the 68 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:13,440 US only. That's good. Keep it contained. A beta for real-time speech translation 69 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:19,120 is available in Google Meet. And developers are getting new coding agents 70 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:21,600 and tools, including Jewels, Stitch, and 71 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:26,479 the very literally named Gemini Code Assist. You didn't get a nickname. Not 72 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:32,000 cool enough yet. Google also updated the Gemini API and SDK with support for 73 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:37,520 anthropics model context protocol which is catching on as a kind of USBC of AI 74 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:42,320 allowing models and systems to speak politely with each other helping 75 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:48,560 Google's AI ultra exclusive project Mariner computer use agent use computers 76 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:52,880 which is it needs to do now for the coming later stuff when Mariner is less 77 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:58,960 experimental it'll roll out more widely in the Gemini app as agent mode, not to 78 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:02,400 be confused with AI mode in search, which will be updated with a lighter 79 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:07,039 version of deep research called deep search and also with search live, which 80 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:10,880 is just Gemini Live, but in search. I swear they are trying to annoy us. But 81 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,960 look, let's not let them, okay? 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There's 101 00:07:33,759 --> 00:07:40,080 still the quick bits. Just hold on. At their build dev conference, Microsoft 102 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:45,120 also announced a whack ton of stuff, but thankfully most of it is too niche, and 103 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:50,080 I could safely skip some of it, except for Windows 11 getting MCP support, 104 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:54,720 which will make it much easier to let AI assistants actually control your 105 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:58,160 PC when you want them to. Did they put that in the code? That's seems 106 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:03,199 important. MCP is also a big part of Microsoft's NL web initiative, which 107 00:08:00,639 --> 00:08:07,840 will make it easier for AIS and websites to all talk to each other. It's 108 00:08:04,879 --> 00:08:12,319 described as kind of the HTML for the agentic web, which sounds like a 109 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:16,960 Spiderverse plot element. Also, the Windows subsystem for Linux is now open 110 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:22,319 source. And see, I probably could have skipped that, too. It's really niche. 111 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:24,879 Linux people, yes, it is. I can't 112 00:08:22,319 --> 00:08:30,960 believe this story is way down here, but Fortnite is back on the iOS App Store in 113 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:36,240 the US with support for external payment options with no Apple fees. This is 114 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:42,080 crazy. 5 years after intentionally getting kicked off the App Store and 115 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:44,720 suing Apple over it, Epic Games actually 116 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:48,399 won uh for now, although it seems like this might stick just because everyone's 117 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:53,120 just fed up with Apple at this point. In their letter to Epic last week, Certino 118 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:57,760 said they were denying Epic's Fortnite app submission until after their request 119 00:08:55,519 --> 00:09:03,680 for a stay on the judge's order was reviewed. And when the judge saw it, she 120 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,360 was like, "No, do it now, you turds." If 121 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:10,160 you're curious about the history of all of this, I made a big old techer video 122 00:09:07,839 --> 00:09:13,920 somewhere about 3 years ago. I'm just saying. We've seen laptop tablet things 123 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:19,839 with one big foldable display before, but Huawei's looks real fancy. The 124 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,839 MateBook Fold Ultimate Design is a 125 00:09:19,839 --> 00:09:28,399 13-inch foldable tablet that when unfolded is just 7.3 mm thick, thinner 126 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:33,279 than an iPhone 16. It runs Huawei's Harmony OS and is only available in 127 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:35,120 China for the equivalent of $3,300, but 128 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:39,760 I just like knowing it's out there. And Noctua has teamed up with Pulsar to 129 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:45,120 build a version of the second company's Fineman FO1 with a built-in Noctua fan. 130 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:50,800 It's a mouse, by the way. I probably should have said that. It's not the first mouse with a fan. The Marsback 131 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:55,360 Zephyr Pro has been around for a few years, cooling the sweaty hands of many 132 00:09:53,200 --> 00:10:00,000 a thankful gamer. But it is the first one with a fan the color of old hospital 133 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,680 walls. I mean, how could you say no? And how could you say no to coming back for 134 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:08,480 more tech news on Friday? Was that too rude to Noctua? I don't. There's a ton 135 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:12,560 of Computex stuff, at least that we didn't cover today. So, don't go online 136 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:16,640 for a couple days and then come watch my show. It's a reasonable request.