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Welcome to the first episode of Is Intel Doing Okay?

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The short answer is no. But the longer answer is that the company announced it was laying off over 15,000 employees,

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making Intel the current record holder for biggest, saddest number.

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No one else compete, please. The company is attempting to cut costs after reporting financial losses for the second

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quarter in a row. Intel's stock price also plummeted the most it has in 50 years, down to the lowest price

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we've seen in a decade. It's unclear how long it may take Intel to recover from this.

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The high cost of outsourcing the upcoming Lunar Lake chips because their foundry business

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has not been performing as they wanted to, will impact margins for the coming year.

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On the plus side though, Intel is extending warranties on the now famously unstable 13th

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and 14th gen desktop processors by two years, which will cost Intel more in replacement

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chips. But at least they're doing the right thing. Or, they will be if they don't continue to claim authentic chips are counterfeit to

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deny an RMA like they allegedly did to this Redditor.

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Yes, it's just one alleged customer with mere troves of photo evidence, it could be

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fake. Intel has also reiterated that a separate issue with the chips, an oxidation problem

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brought to light by GamersNexes and Level1Tex, was dealt with, although affected chips could

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have still been on store shelves until early 2024.

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And they haven't released batch numbers for those chips so that consumers can find out

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if they are affected. And that's bad, but only when you consider the facts.

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OpenAI has finally rolled out ChatGPT's advanced voice mode for some, plus subscribers, two

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and a half months after showing off a ton of live demos and announcing a rollout in

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the coming weeks.

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The new mode doesn't have the sky voice that many couldn't seem to differentiate from

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the real Scarlett Johansson for some reason, but it apparently does have the mistaken belief

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that it has to breathe like a human. Okay, I want you to do it again, but way faster and without taking any breaths or pauses.

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I wish I could, but I need to breathe just like anybody speaking.

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Want to give it a shot yourself and see how fast you can go? Do you want me to talk like a human or not?

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You put me in here. Yeah, the question of whether AI is sort of like a person or not hasn't really gone away,

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especially since the legal defense most often used by AI companies.

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Most recently, AI music startups, Suno and Udio, who are being sued by the Recording

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Industry Association of America, is that training their AI models on virtually every piece of

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music ever uploaded on the web is basically like a kid learning to write songs by listening

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to songs, so it's protected under fair use. The RIAA has said they disagree, but as Suno said in their blog post, learning is not

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infringing. Unless you think young sweet Emma is infringing by creating her own unique take on Disturbia

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after absorbing Rihanna's entire corpus of work into her network attached storage.

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Yeah, she's a computer. So what six months ahead of its potential ban from the US, TikTok and its parent company

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Bite Dance was served with a lawsuit from the Justice Department over its failure to

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get parental consent before collecting personal information on users under 13 years old.

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Honestly, I get it, TikTok. Meeting the parents of the minor whose brain you want to scramble like an egg is always

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super awkward. Do I talk first? How do we do this?

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This lawsuit says TikTok's in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act,

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or COPPA, not to be confused with COSA, Kids Online Safety Act, the controversial bill

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passed by an overwhelming majority of the Senate this week, which would require heavier

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moderation by social platforms to protect the children.

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That's probably why House Republicans said they would reject the bill as it is now.

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So it's probably back to the drawing board on that one. Thankfully, another tech giant is here to protect our kids.

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Google is bringing its school time feature from its Fitbit watches to select

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Android phones, tablets and Galaxy watches so parents can choose what their kids are

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able to do on their phone during school hours. Pay attention in class.

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You can scramble your brains when you get home. TikTok's here. We've been talking.

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They're actually really nice. Quick bits. Get your quick bits here.

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Five dollars for you. They're free.

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I like you. Apple has pulled an ad for the second time this year.

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The fifth installment in Apple's The Underdogs Out of Office series faced criticism for its

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depiction of Thailand. Critics accused the spot of misrepresenting the country as underdeveloped and outdated

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and concerned Thai lawmakers who are members of the Tourism Committee.

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Earlier this year, Apple scrapped its plans to run an iPad Pro ad on TV that

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celebrated the destruction of instruments of human creativity, for some reason.

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That ad is still up on YouTube, so you can send it to a creative person that you hate.

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An appeals court has blocked the FCC's newly restored net neutrality rules ahead

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of a hearing that might see them overturned. At the heart of the dispute is the question of whether this is a relatively minor matter

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best left to the interpretation of the experts and technocrats at the FCC, or

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whether it is a major policy decision that needs final approval from Congress.

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Considering how the issue has flip flopped from administration to administration,

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the court might be wise to put this issue on pause.

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Unfortunately, that means leaving telecoms to regulate themselves for the time being,

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which is a bit like asking Pennywise the clown to babysit.

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Better or worse than TikTok, not sure. Noam Shazir, the co-founder and CEO of Character.ai, the character-based chatbot

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service whose primary use appears to be allowing teenagers to talk to their

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favorite waifus and husbandos, has returned to Google, where he co-developed

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the transformer architecture behind all modern LLMs back in 2017.

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He's bringing his co-founder Daniel Defrightus and a handful of other employees with him.

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Google's also signing a new agreement to license Character.ai's tech.

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This smells eerily similar to Microsoft's heavily criticized aqua hiring of

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Mustafa Suleyman, the former CEO of Inflection.ai, although most of Character.ai's

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staff will be staying on. I don't know, I'm counting down the days until Gemini can convince me I'm really

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talking to the real Luke Skywalker, who didn't actually do those things in the sequels.

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Boeing's Starliner mission may be a full dud, as NASA is apparently considering

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alternate options for bringing two astronauts back to Earth.

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The Starliner spacecraft has been docked to the International Space Station for eight

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weeks, even though astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams were supposed to be

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back around eight days after being launched into orbit.

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Sources say it's now very possible that the pair will be brought back by SpaceX and

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that all that extra time in space waiting for Starliner to be tested will be for nothing.

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They had to spend weeks strapping themselves to a toilet so that a fan could suck their

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poop into a plastic bag. And that's real. And an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire dental procedure on a

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person for the first time, and it was eight times faster than a human dentist.

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If you're like me, spending less time in a dental chair is reason enough to give a robot

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a shot at looking after the old mouth rocks. The robot shaves off that much time by using highly accurate, light-based

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scanning that is then analyzed by AI to plan the procedure.

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But the best part is, the robot doesn't wait until its hands are in your mouth to ask

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how your brother's doing. In fact, it doesn't ask at all.

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Sounds great. But I would like to kindly ask you to please come back on Monday for a special

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talk-linked episode. We have a stat holiday, so we won't be here in the office, but we hope you will be.

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We'll be there in here.

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Love you.