Before I give you the tech news, I just want to ask, is this what you really
want? Like there is a faint chance that I could give you too much tech news and
your head might explode from knowledge. Microsoft has shared its
radical vision for what Windows computing will look like in the year
2030 when apparently AI interaction will be so great using mice and keyboards
will be a foreign concept. a world of sort of mousing around and keyboarding
around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to sort of use DOSs.
>> That's according to Microsoft's corporate VP for enterprise and OS
security. >> David Weston, maybe better known as Dizzle.
>> The captioning AI uh spelled Dwizzle
with three Z's, but the AIs of the future won't make those kind of
mistakes. Hopefully, because apparently at that point, we'll have already
incinerated all the mice and keyboards. Don't worry, gamers, you won't miss
using yours. In fact, you won't even have to play. Just tell the AI to play
for you. Xbox insiders can get a taste of this bright future today with early
access to Microsoft's Xbox Co-opilot Assistant in the Windows 11 Xbox app.
You can ask it things like, "What am I looking at?" If you've always struggled
to know a Kraken's tentacle when you see one. One thing that may prompt me to ask
an AI what the I'm looking at are these limited edition Windows XP Crocs.
Microsoft is apparently making them to celebrate its 50th anniversary by
remembering when Windows was a real operating system instead of an ad
delivery service. They even come with a six-pack of XP themed Jibbits, a little
ornaments you can stick on the Crocs. And if you didn't know that, I'm sorry,
you are not cool or hip enough to wear these. And besides, Microsoft employees
apparently get first dibbits.
It's been a wild week for AI. Google announced Genie 3, their new frontier
world model, which is what we're calling it when AIs can hallucinate a nice
blurry little lucid dream for you to stroll around in. I don't want to be too
harsh right off the bat, though, because Genie 3 is a massive improvement over
Genie 2, generating higher fidelity worlds for longer. And although users
with early access can describe a scene and then play through the world's worst
video game, the model now has world memory, which means environments stay
consistent when you look away. A never-before-seen innovation. Honestly
though, we have not seen other models with this level of quality summon men in
chicken suits, obnoxious jet skiers, or oblivious dragons on the fly, or
seamlessly transition out of a VO3 video
into a playable flight game. They don't
want to call them games cuz there's something more. Take this exchange. A
Deep Mind researcher tweeted a video of staff playing with Genie 3. Someone
replied to say, "Oh, they thought this was like a video of people playing with
Genie 3 that was generated by Genie 3.
Wouldn't that be funny?" Oh, it can do that.
This is fine. Uh, we're actually all going to be fine probably. Although, it
was enough to make this tweeter wonder whether this is evidence for Talbot's
holographic universe. Better ask Grock.
To Grock's credit, uh, it does give a reasonable answer. Like, we're not
peering into the fabric of reality here. It's an AI video. It's not that deep.
You can give the same prompt to chat GPT and it very well might be like, h,
maybe. Totally could be a definite
maybe. Oh, you're so smart. I love you. Speaking of Open AI, they actually
released their first open models since
GPT2 6 years ago. They are a pair of
openweight models that can be run on your laptop and they're apparently
pretty good. Although they're about to be eclipsed by the release of GPT5
probably on Tuesday, as evidenced by little clues like the company's head of
applied research tweeting this week that he's excited to see how the public
receives GPT5 and the main OpenAI
account screaming live stream Thursday 10 a.m. There was so much AI stuff. You
may have missed that Anthropic squeezed a little 0.1 onto Claude Opus 4 and that
11 Labs launched 11 music which generates AI music that's apparently
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
pressure at all, just tell me and I will actually not stop. I am compelled
onwards. US President Donald Trump took a break from winning his sixth Golf
Championship in 2025 because he's as good at that as Elon is at Diablo to
announce he'd impose a 100% tariff on
semiconductors made by companies that aren't building in the US. TSMC is doing
that, but Trump reportedly told them that if they want the same 15% tariff as
Japan and South Korea, they'll have to buy half of Intel and invest another
$400 billion in the US. I mean, it's the
least you could do. Taiwan, be reasonable. I mean, Apple just committed
another h 100red billion to US manufacturing, and Epic Games in the EU
stole all their Apple taxes. They're basically poor now. AMD has officially,
but quietly announced the Radeon RX9060
nonXT. And that's appropriate because this is a fairly modest card targeted at
1080p gaming with 8 GB of slower GDDR6
nonX memory. It will only be available through system integrators. I mean, it
doesn't even have an MSRP. Uh because what would be the point? This
is what GPU releases look like now, I guess. Uh okay, moving on. Battlefield 6
and Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will both require TPM support and secure boots to
be enabled on Windows 10 and 11 PCs in
order for their anti-cheat solutions to work properly, which will make sure
there's no cheating and everyone plays by the rules just like real war. Despite
that though, more than 9,000 people were seen queuing up for the upcoming
Battlefield 6 beta. That's almost as many players as there are currently
playing Battlefield 2042. IGN mistakenly
wrote that it looks like EA may have a hit on its hands when really they just
have 9,000 people whose optimism has survived somehow EA's every attempt to
destroy it. Hey, don't buy a Pixel right now. Uh, as Android Authority warns,
there are new ones coming imminently on August 20th. And there's also the fact
that besides the constant hardware issues that seem to plague pixels
perpetually, Google also just pulled
refurbished Pixel 6As from their store following an update meant to stop their
batteries from exploding, which seems to have been successful, at least some of
the time. So, don't buy a Pixel right now, but do download the update that
fixes the issues with the back gestures. We don't think that should cause any
explosions, but we can't know. AI search
company Perplexity actually has people defending it after Cloudflare named and
shamed the company earlier this week for trying to circumvent websites attempts
to block the company's web crawlers. But in an official response, Perplexity
points out that websites are sometimes trying to block bots that are sent by an
AI assistant to retrieve an answer for a user. They're not trying to scrape the
data for training this time anyway. And the difference is important. I mean,
this is a moral issue about who gets to access information on the open web. A
gez, don't start with what are we discriminating against these poor bots
now? Or or against tools like Google's AI overviews, which the tech giant says
is not killing click-through traffic to websites. No, they didn't provide any
data to refute the growing pile of research that says the opposite.
I mean, searches are up. Sure, no one's
clicking anything, but searches are up. And NVIDIA has come out strongly against
the idea of putting back doors or kill switches or spyware in their GPUs.
Company representatives recently got summoned to testify in China after US
lawmakers proposed requiring such back doors. And so, NVIDIA wants to be clear.
they would always oppose back doors and especially the ones they'd be legally
barred from telling you about. Meanwhile, I'm not legally barred from
saying thanks for watching. No one has any say on whether I can say that. And
it feels good, but not as good as it would feel if you came back on Friday
for more tech news. I won't actually be here on Friday or on Monday. But listen,
Adam and Elijah are writing, and when we talked about it today, they had some
twinkles in their eyes. So, I think it's going to be good. Okay. All right. Okay.