WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.720 Before I give you the tech news, I just want to ask, is this what you really 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:11.360 want? Like there is a faint chance that I could give you too much tech news and 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:16.000 your head might explode from knowledge. Microsoft has shared its 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:20.800 radical vision for what Windows computing will look like in the year 00:00:17.840 --> 00:00:25.359 2030 when apparently AI interaction will be so great using mice and keyboards 00:00:23.279 --> 00:00:29.599 will be a foreign concept. a world of sort of mousing around and keyboarding 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:33.840 around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to sort of use DOSs. 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:37.040 >> That's according to Microsoft's corporate VP for enterprise and OS 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.960 security. >> David Weston, maybe better known as Dizzle. 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:45.600 >> The captioning AI uh spelled Dwizzle 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.600 with three Z's, but the AIs of the future won't make those kind of 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:52.960 mistakes. Hopefully, because apparently at that point, we'll have already 00:00:50.879 --> 00:00:56.960 incinerated all the mice and keyboards. Don't worry, gamers, you won't miss 00:00:54.800 --> 00:01:02.800 using yours. In fact, you won't even have to play. Just tell the AI to play 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:07.760 for you. Xbox insiders can get a taste of this bright future today with early 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:12.720 access to Microsoft's Xbox Co-opilot Assistant in the Windows 11 Xbox app. 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:17.119 You can ask it things like, "What am I looking at?" If you've always struggled 00:01:14.720 --> 00:01:22.560 to know a Kraken's tentacle when you see one. One thing that may prompt me to ask 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:27.200 an AI what the I'm looking at are these limited edition Windows XP Crocs. 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:31.200 Microsoft is apparently making them to celebrate its 50th anniversary by 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:35.119 remembering when Windows was a real operating system instead of an ad 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:40.159 delivery service. They even come with a six-pack of XP themed Jibbits, a little 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:44.560 ornaments you can stick on the Crocs. And if you didn't know that, I'm sorry, 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:50.560 you are not cool or hip enough to wear these. And besides, Microsoft employees 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:53.439 apparently get first dibbits. 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:58.079 It's been a wild week for AI. Google announced Genie 3, their new frontier 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:02.320 world model, which is what we're calling it when AIs can hallucinate a nice 00:02:00.479 --> 00:02:06.159 blurry little lucid dream for you to stroll around in. I don't want to be too 00:02:04.399 --> 00:02:11.440 harsh right off the bat, though, because Genie 3 is a massive improvement over 00:02:09.119 --> 00:02:16.160 Genie 2, generating higher fidelity worlds for longer. And although users 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:21.120 with early access can describe a scene and then play through the world's worst 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:25.680 video game, the model now has world memory, which means environments stay 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:29.920 consistent when you look away. A never-before-seen innovation. Honestly 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:35.680 though, we have not seen other models with this level of quality summon men in 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:41.680 chicken suits, obnoxious jet skiers, or oblivious dragons on the fly, or 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:45.599 seamlessly transition out of a VO3 video 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:47.760 into a playable flight game. They don't 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:52.400 want to call them games cuz there's something more. Take this exchange. A 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:57.599 Deep Mind researcher tweeted a video of staff playing with Genie 3. Someone 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:04.000 replied to say, "Oh, they thought this was like a video of people playing with 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:06.480 Genie 3 that was generated by Genie 3. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:11.120 Wouldn't that be funny?" Oh, it can do that. 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:15.360 This is fine. Uh, we're actually all going to be fine probably. Although, it 00:03:13.040 --> 00:03:20.720 was enough to make this tweeter wonder whether this is evidence for Talbot's 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:25.599 holographic universe. Better ask Grock. 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:29.840 To Grock's credit, uh, it does give a reasonable answer. Like, we're not 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:34.239 peering into the fabric of reality here. It's an AI video. It's not that deep. 00:03:32.239 --> 00:03:40.239 You can give the same prompt to chat GPT and it very well might be like, h, 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:43.040 maybe. Totally could be a definite 00:03:40.239 --> 00:03:48.000 maybe. Oh, you're so smart. I love you. Speaking of Open AI, they actually 00:03:44.959 --> 00:03:49.599 released their first open models since 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:53.599 GPT2 6 years ago. They are a pair of 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:57.040 openweight models that can be run on your laptop and they're apparently 00:03:55.519 --> 00:04:02.959 pretty good. Although they're about to be eclipsed by the release of GPT5 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:07.200 probably on Tuesday, as evidenced by little clues like the company's head of 00:04:05.360 --> 00:04:11.680 applied research tweeting this week that he's excited to see how the public 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:14.560 receives GPT5 and the main OpenAI 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:19.600 account screaming live stream Thursday 10 a.m. There was so much AI stuff. 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US President Donald Trump took a break from winning his sixth Golf 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:38.479 Championship in 2025 because he's as good at that as Elon is at Diablo to 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:40.560 announce he'd impose a 100% tariff on 00:05:38.479 --> 00:05:45.840 semiconductors made by companies that aren't building in the US. TSMC is doing 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:50.880 that, but Trump reportedly told them that if they want the same 15% tariff as 00:05:48.479 --> 00:05:57.120 Japan and South Korea, they'll have to buy half of Intel and invest another 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:58.720 $400 billion in the US. I mean, it's the 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:02.479 least you could do. Taiwan, be reasonable. I mean, Apple just committed 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:06.720 another h 100red billion to US manufacturing, and Epic Games in the EU 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:12.960 stole all their Apple taxes. They're basically poor now. AMD has officially, 00:06:09.039 --> 00:06:15.600 but quietly announced the Radeon RX9060 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:22.479 nonXT. And that's appropriate because this is a fairly modest card targeted at 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:24.880 1080p gaming with 8 GB of slower GDDR6 00:06:22.479 --> 00:06:29.520 nonX memory. It will only be available through system integrators. I mean, it 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:33.919 doesn't even have an MSRP. Uh because what would be the point? This 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:38.880 is what GPU releases look like now, I guess. Uh okay, moving on. Battlefield 6 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:45.280 and Call of Duty Black Ops 7 will both require TPM support and secure boots to 00:06:41.919 --> 00:06:47.680 be enabled on Windows 10 and 11 PCs in 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:51.919 order for their anti-cheat solutions to work properly, which will make sure 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:57.360 there's no cheating and everyone plays by the rules just like real war. Despite 00:06:54.880 --> 00:07:01.440 that though, more than 9,000 people were seen queuing up for the upcoming 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:06.479 Battlefield 6 beta. That's almost as many players as there are currently 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:08.880 playing Battlefield 2042. IGN mistakenly 00:07:06.479 --> 00:07:14.319 wrote that it looks like EA may have a hit on its hands when really they just 00:07:11.919 --> 00:07:20.000 have 9,000 people whose optimism has survived somehow EA's every attempt to 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:24.479 destroy it. Hey, don't buy a Pixel right now. Uh, as Android Authority warns, 00:07:22.479 --> 00:07:28.560 there are new ones coming imminently on August 20th. And there's also the fact 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:33.599 that besides the constant hardware issues that seem to plague pixels 00:07:30.479 --> 00:07:36.560 perpetually, Google also just pulled 00:07:33.599 --> 00:07:40.880 refurbished Pixel 6As from their store following an update meant to stop their 00:07:38.479 --> 00:07:46.000 batteries from exploding, which seems to have been successful, at least some of 00:07:43.840 --> 00:07:50.960 the time. So, don't buy a Pixel right now, but do download the update that 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:56.160 fixes the issues with the back gestures. We don't think that should cause any 00:07:53.039 --> 00:07:58.479 explosions, but we can't know. AI search 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:03.440 company Perplexity actually has people defending it after Cloudflare named and 00:08:01.280 --> 00:08:08.080 shamed the company earlier this week for trying to circumvent websites attempts 00:08:05.599 --> 00:08:12.240 to block the company's web crawlers. But in an official response, Perplexity 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:17.759 points out that websites are sometimes trying to block bots that are sent by an 00:08:15.039 --> 00:08:22.000 AI assistant to retrieve an answer for a user. They're not trying to scrape the 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:26.720 data for training this time anyway. And the difference is important. I mean, 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:32.000 this is a moral issue about who gets to access information on the open web. A 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:37.120 gez, don't start with what are we discriminating against these poor bots 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:42.399 now? Or or against tools like Google's AI overviews, which the tech giant says 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:46.800 is not killing click-through traffic to websites. No, they didn't provide any 00:08:44.880 --> 00:08:53.279 data to refute the growing pile of research that says the opposite. 00:08:49.680 --> 00:08:56.000 I mean, searches are up. Sure, no one's 00:08:53.279 --> 00:09:00.320 clicking anything, but searches are up. And NVIDIA has come out strongly against 00:08:58.160 --> 00:09:04.320 the idea of putting back doors or kill switches or spyware in their GPUs. 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:09.839 Company representatives recently got summoned to testify in China after US 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:15.440 lawmakers proposed requiring such back doors. And so, NVIDIA wants to be clear. 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:19.920 they would always oppose back doors and especially the ones they'd be legally 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:24.480 barred from telling you about. Meanwhile, I'm not legally barred from 00:09:21.760 --> 00:09:28.560 saying thanks for watching. No one has any say on whether I can say that. And 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:31.839 it feels good, but not as good as it would feel if you came back on Friday 00:09:29.839 --> 00:09:37.279 for more tech news. I won't actually be here on Friday or on Monday. But listen, 00:09:34.640 --> 00:09:40.480 Adam and Elijah are writing, and when we talked about it today, they had some 00:09:38.800 --> 00:09:44.720 twinkles in their eyes. So, I think it's going to be good. Okay. All right. Okay.