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In an effort to look cooler, I've been learning to read tech news off a teleprompter

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while wearing sunglasses. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

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I can't see. NVIDIA is closer than ever to owning the entire GPU market.

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According to a new report from John Petty Research, which has NVIDIA sitting at 94%

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of all discrete graphics card shipments. For a hot second, there was hope

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that competition would make this not so. In Q4 2024, NVIDIA had diverted production

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to data center GPUs, and AMD was able to hold steady around 15%,

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but not for long. AMD is now sitting at 5%,

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while Intel is guarding that 1% market share they won last year with their life.

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It's sad, but as much as I love the idea of voting with one's wallet,

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the fact is that gamers see more value in the performance and features offered by GeForce.

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NVIDIA's action-packed 2009 film about a team of guinea pig commandos

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and it's accompanying video games still available on Steam for $26?

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That's like a whole combo at McDonald's. This economy, speaking of Steam,

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the Steam hardware survey appears to agree with this research.

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The RTX 5070 became the most popular card on Steam recently, though analysts suspect

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Chinese New Year internet cafe traffic and a Valve reporting bug

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may have inflated those numbers somewhat, but still. If you take a look at AMD's best card on the chart,

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it's in 17th place under a whole slew of NVIDIA's offerings.

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As a final insult, leaks suggest NVIDIA is planning a new RTX 5050 variant

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with nine gigabytes of VRAM, not even a nice, even eight gigabytes.

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Nine feels weird, but who's gonna stop them, huh?

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Now that's not to say AMD's out of the graphics game entirely, the newly announced NextGen Xbox console,

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codenamed Project Helix, which we talked about on GameLink yesterday,

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runs on an AMD chipset and will play PC games,

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making it a PC, and so many people are gonna buy this, and then that AMD share of GPUs will shoot up, okay?

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I know that's not how it works, just let me have this. Anthropic is vowing to sue the Pentagon

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over the company being designated a supply chain risk.

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Now this comes days after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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declared on Twitter that no contractor, supplier, or partner of the US military

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can do business with Anthropic, because Anthropic CEO, Dario Amade,

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refused to allow the Pentagon to use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans

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and the deployment of fully autonomous weapons systems, and that sucks.

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Amade responded yesterday to Hegseth on Anthropic's blog to say,

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he doesn't believe this designation is legally sound

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and that he has no choice, but to challenge it in court.

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Oof, I'm not sure if it's just me, but there's some serious heated rivalry energy

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coming off of Hegseth and Amade, except instead of hockey,

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it's mass surveillance and autonomous murder robots, and I'm not excited anymore.

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Despite going to war against the literal department of war,

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Anthropic has found itself with some notable allies.

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Senator Kirsten Gillbrand called the Pentagon's move

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short-sighted, self-destructive, and a gift to our adversaries, and Microsoft has stated that after reviewing

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the designation, it will continue to do business with Anthropic, which is good news

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because Anthropic is going to need that business. Now that, according to the AI industry,

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Sugar Daddy and Shovel Salesman, Jensen Wong,

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NVIDIA will be holstering the money gun it's had pointed at the AI bubble.

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It shoots money. Wong said at a Morgan Stanley conference this week

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that NVIDIA's recent investments in both open AI and Anthropic,

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30 billion and 10 billion respectively, are likely to be its last,

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and the whopping 100 billion open AI NVIDIA deal

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that Wong announced last September is officially dead.

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I guess that announcement about investing up to $100 billion

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was just something that Wong said in the heat of the moment and he never really meant it.

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So Anthropic might just survive, but XAI is in real trouble according to CEO

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and melting wax sculpture, Elon Musk. XAI just failed to block a California law

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passed in late 2024, requiring AI companies to publicly disclose

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what data they used to train their models. XAI's arguments cited everything from trade secrets

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to free speech, to the fact that people would just be kind of bored

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by all the stuff in the disclosures and like wouldn't even want to see them anyways.

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Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to convince US district judge, Jesus Bernal,

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who said XAI failed to show the law would force them to reveal any actual trade secrets

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and that the company traded in frequent abstractions and hypotheticals instead of real evidence of harm.

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The lawsuit will continue, but XAI has to comply with the law in the meantime,

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which could see Musk sharing information he'd rather open AI had no knowledge of.

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Information like who our sponsor is. Why do they know?

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Little fun fact before we head into the quick bits. I was joking before we don't read off a teleprompter.

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We make up the script as we go, okay? None of this is real.

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So, hmm, let's make up something about how Apple

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is now blocking US users from downloading ByteDances Chinese apps,

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even if they have a valid Chinese app store account.

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Before the TikTok US entity deal was reached,

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Apple had listed 11 ByteDance apps that would no longer be available in the US,

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starting January 19th, 2025, and it looks like that policy is now being enforced

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for the apps that weren't covered by the deal, which include Duyen, Dubau, Fanky Novel, Flipkut,

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Hypec, Lark, Quank, and Goth, Goath.

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Banning app seems bad. However, these are apps you think about

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so little you didn't even realize two of them were made up, and I guarantee you,

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it's not the ones you think. One thing that's luckily not made up

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is that Apple Music will be rolling out transparency tags

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for AI-generated music, labeling tracks across four categories

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depending on how much AI was involved in making them. The catch, it's entirely opt-in,

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meaning labels and distributors only have to disclose the use of AI tools

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if they feel like it, which is great, because record labels have such a long

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and storied history of being completely honest about everything.

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This is totally going to work, guys, and it will absolutely fix the platform 100%.

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The first MacBook Neo benchmarks just hit geek bench,

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and since the $599 laptop runs the same A18 Pro chip

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as the iPhone 16 Pro, the scores are nearly identical,

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sitting just 61 points ahead in single-core and 327 points ahead in multicore.

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According to Tom's guide, that puts single-core performance well ahead of the M1 MacBook Air.

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No doubt partially thanks to the newer three-nanometer process,

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though multicore is roughly the same. We've now got iPhones

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that are more powerful than MacBooks from a few years ago, so we're putting those phone chips back in MacBooks,

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which may be now one of the best bang for your buck options on the market from Apple.

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Times are wild. Wikipedia editors have discovered that a nonprofit called the Open Knowledge Association

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has been paying contractors to translate Wikipedia articles

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using chat GBT and Gemini, which is against Wikipedia's own rules.

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Unsurprisingly, those translations have been stuffing articles with hallucinated citations,

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fabricated sources, and paragraphs pulled from completely unrelated material.

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Wikipedia's response was to keep using them anyway, but with stricter oversight.

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The OKAs fix deploy a second AI

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to check the first AI's work. If you hallucinate a hallucination,

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is that hallucin-a-ception? Probably ask chat GBT.

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And Roblox is rolling out a real-time AI chat filter

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that doesn't just block profanity, it rephrases it.

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So instead of your messages appearing as a bunch of hashtags when you call someone a naughty word,

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the AI rewrites it into something civil

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while preserving your original intent, like turning hurry TF up into just hurry up, much better.

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The feature was developed with Roblox's Teen Council,

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a carefully selected group of teenagers who inadvertently became wise beyond their years

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after being groomed on Roblox. So now, when you announce to your Phantom Forces lobby,

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so now when you announce to your Phantom Forces lobby that you will in fact end their bloodlines

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because of what they've done, the AI can translate that internal rage

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into something about how you don't have to have kids to lead a fulfilling life,

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and I guarantee your life will be fulfilled if you come back on Monday for some more

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completely unscripted tech news that we say out loud as soon as it pops into our head.

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And thank goodness. Can you imagine if all of this stuff was true?