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Before I give you the tech news, I just want to ask, is this what you really

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want? Like there is a faint chance that I could give you too much tech news and

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your head might explode from knowledge. Microsoft has shared its

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radical vision for what Windows computing will look like in the year

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2030 when apparently AI interaction will be so great using mice and keyboards

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will be a foreign concept. a world of sort of mousing around and keyboarding

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around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to sort of use DOSs.

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>> That's according to Microsoft's corporate VP for enterprise and OS

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security. >> David Weston, maybe better known as Dizzle.

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>> The captioning AI uh spelled Dwizzle

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with three Z's, but the AIs of the future won't make those kind of

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mistakes. Hopefully, because apparently at that point, we'll have already

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incinerated all the mice and keyboards. Don't worry, gamers, you won't miss

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using yours. In fact, you won't even have to play. Just tell the AI to play

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for you. Xbox insiders can get a taste of this bright future today with early

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access to Microsoft's Xbox Co-opilot Assistant in the Windows 11 Xbox app.

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You can ask it things like, "What am I looking at?" If you've always struggled

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to know a Kraken's tentacle when you see one. One thing that may prompt me to ask

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an AI what the I'm looking at are these limited edition Windows XP Crocs.

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Microsoft is apparently making them to celebrate its 50th anniversary by

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remembering when Windows was a real operating system instead of an ad

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delivery service. They even come with a six-pack of XP themed Jibbits, a little

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ornaments you can stick on the Crocs. And if you didn't know that, I'm sorry,

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you are not cool or hip enough to wear these. And besides, Microsoft employees

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apparently get first dibbits.

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It's been a wild week for AI. Google announced Genie 3, their new frontier

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world model, which is what we're calling it when AIs can hallucinate a nice

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blurry little lucid dream for you to stroll around in. I don't want to be too

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harsh right off the bat, though, because Genie 3 is a massive improvement over

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Genie 2, generating higher fidelity worlds for longer. And although users

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with early access can describe a scene and then play through the world's worst

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video game, the model now has world memory, which means environments stay

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consistent when you look away. A never-before-seen innovation. Honestly

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though, we have not seen other models with this level of quality summon men in

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chicken suits, obnoxious jet skiers, or oblivious dragons on the fly, or

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seamlessly transition out of a VO3 video

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into a playable flight game. They don't

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want to call them games cuz there's something more. Take this exchange. A

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Deep Mind researcher tweeted a video of staff playing with Genie 3. Someone

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replied to say, "Oh, they thought this was like a video of people playing with

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Genie 3 that was generated by Genie 3.

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Wouldn't that be funny?" Oh, it can do that.

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This is fine. Uh, we're actually all going to be fine probably. Although, it

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was enough to make this tweeter wonder whether this is evidence for Talbot's

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holographic universe. Better ask Grock.

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To Grock's credit, uh, it does give a reasonable answer. Like, we're not

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peering into the fabric of reality here. It's an AI video. It's not that deep.

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You can give the same prompt to chat GPT and it very well might be like, h,

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maybe. Totally could be a definite

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maybe. Oh, you're so smart. I love you. Speaking of Open AI, they actually

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released their first open models since

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GPT2 6 years ago. They are a pair of

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openweight models that can be run on your laptop and they're apparently

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pretty good. Although they're about to be eclipsed by the release of GPT5

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probably on Tuesday, as evidenced by little clues like the company's head of

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applied research tweeting this week that he's excited to see how the public

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receives GPT5 and the main OpenAI

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account screaming live stream Thursday 10 a.m. There was so much AI stuff. You

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may have missed that Anthropic squeezed a little 0.1 onto Claude Opus 4 and that

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11 Labs launched 11 music which generates AI music that's apparently

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cleared for nearly all commercial uses. I didn't, but I could have used it for

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Okay, how's your head feeling? Got room for quickbits in there? If you feel any

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pressure at all, just tell me and I will actually not stop. I am compelled

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onwards. US President Donald Trump took a break from winning his sixth Golf

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Championship in 2025 because he's as good at that as Elon is at Diablo to

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announce he'd impose a 100% tariff on

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semiconductors made by companies that aren't building in the US. TSMC is doing

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that, but Trump reportedly told them that if they want the same 15% tariff as

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Japan and South Korea, they'll have to buy half of Intel and invest another

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$400 billion in the US. I mean, it's the

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least you could do. Taiwan, be reasonable. I mean, Apple just committed

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another h 100red billion to US manufacturing, and Epic Games in the EU

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stole all their Apple taxes. They're basically poor now. AMD has officially,

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but quietly announced the Radeon RX9060

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nonXT. And that's appropriate because this is a fairly modest card targeted at

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1080p gaming with 8 GB of slower GDDR6

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nonX memory. It will only be available through system integrators. I mean, it

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doesn't even have an MSRP. Uh because what would be the point? This

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is what GPU releases look like now, I guess. Uh okay, moving on. Battlefield 6

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and Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will both require TPM support and secure boots to

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be enabled on Windows 10 and 11 PCs in

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order for their anti-cheat solutions to work properly, which will make sure

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there's no cheating and everyone plays by the rules just like real war. Despite

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that though, more than 9,000 people were seen queuing up for the upcoming

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Battlefield 6 beta. That's almost as many players as there are currently

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playing Battlefield 2042. IGN mistakenly

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wrote that it looks like EA may have a hit on its hands when really they just

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have 9,000 people whose optimism has survived somehow EA's every attempt to

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destroy it. Hey, don't buy a Pixel right now. Uh, as Android Authority warns,

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there are new ones coming imminently on August 20th. And there's also the fact

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that besides the constant hardware issues that seem to plague pixels

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perpetually, Google also just pulled

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refurbished Pixel 6As from their store following an update meant to stop their

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batteries from exploding, which seems to have been successful, at least some of

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the time. So, don't buy a Pixel right now, but do download the update that

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fixes the issues with the back gestures. We don't think that should cause any

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explosions, but we can't know. AI search

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company Perplexity actually has people defending it after Cloudflare named and

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shamed the company earlier this week for trying to circumvent websites attempts

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to block the company's web crawlers. But in an official response, Perplexity

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points out that websites are sometimes trying to block bots that are sent by an

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AI assistant to retrieve an answer for a user. They're not trying to scrape the

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data for training this time anyway. And the difference is important. I mean,

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this is a moral issue about who gets to access information on the open web. A

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gez, don't start with what are we discriminating against these poor bots

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now? Or or against tools like Google's AI overviews, which the tech giant says

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is not killing click-through traffic to websites. No, they didn't provide any

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data to refute the growing pile of research that says the opposite.

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I mean, searches are up. Sure, no one's

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clicking anything, but searches are up. And NVIDIA has come out strongly against

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the idea of putting back doors or kill switches or spyware in their GPUs.

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Company representatives recently got summoned to testify in China after US

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lawmakers proposed requiring such back doors. And so, NVIDIA wants to be clear.

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they would always oppose back doors and especially the ones they'd be legally

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barred from telling you about. Meanwhile, I'm not legally barred from

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saying thanks for watching. No one has any say on whether I can say that. And

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it feels good, but not as good as it would feel if you came back on Friday

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for more tech news. I won't actually be here on Friday or on Monday. But listen,

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Adam and Elijah are writing, and when we talked about it today, they had some

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twinkles in their eyes. So, I think it's going to be good. Okay. All right. Okay.