WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.320 In an effort to look cooler, I've been learning to read tech news off a teleprompter 00:00:03.320 --> 00:00:08.360 while wearing sunglasses. Unfortunately, it didn't work. 00:00:08.360 --> 00:00:15.280 I can't see. NVIDIA is closer than ever to owning the entire GPU market. 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:20.320 According to a new report from John Petty Research, which has NVIDIA sitting at 94% 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:24.840 of all discrete graphics card shipments. For a hot second, there was hope 00:00:24.840 --> 00:00:30.680 that competition would make this not so. In Q4 2024, NVIDIA had diverted production 00:00:30.680 --> 00:00:35.120 to data center GPUs, and AMD was able to hold steady around 15%, 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:38.880 but not for long. AMD is now sitting at 5%, 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:44.460 while Intel is guarding that 1% market share they won last year with their life. 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:48.640 It's sad, but as much as I love the idea of voting with one's wallet, 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.400 the fact is that gamers see more value in the performance and features offered by GeForce. 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:58.360 NVIDIA's action-packed 2009 film about a team of guinea pig commandos 00:00:58.360 --> 00:01:03.240 and it's accompanying video games still available on Steam for $26? 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:08.080 That's like a whole combo at McDonald's. This economy, speaking of Steam, 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:11.500 the Steam hardware survey appears to agree with this research. 00:01:11.500 --> 00:01:17.120 The RTX 5070 became the most popular card on Steam recently, though analysts suspect 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:21.320 Chinese New Year internet cafe traffic and a Valve reporting bug 00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:26.660 may have inflated those numbers somewhat, but still. If you take a look at AMD's best card on the chart, 00:01:27.420 --> 00:01:31.140 it's in 17th place under a whole slew of NVIDIA's offerings. 00:01:31.140 --> 00:01:37.020 As a final insult, leaks suggest NVIDIA is planning a new RTX 5050 variant 00:01:37.020 --> 00:01:42.380 with nine gigabytes of VRAM, not even a nice, even eight gigabytes. 00:01:42.380 --> 00:01:45.400 Nine feels weird, but who's gonna stop them, huh? 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:50.800 Now that's not to say AMD's out of the graphics game entirely, the newly announced NextGen Xbox console, 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:54.100 codenamed Project Helix, which we talked about on GameLink yesterday, 00:01:54.100 --> 00:01:57.300 runs on an AMD chipset and will play PC games, 00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:03.140 making it a PC, and so many people are gonna buy this, and then that AMD share of GPUs will shoot up, okay? 00:02:03.140 --> 00:02:08.180 I know that's not how it works, just let me have this. Anthropic is vowing to sue the Pentagon 00:02:08.180 --> 00:02:11.740 over the company being designated a supply chain risk. 00:02:11.740 --> 00:02:14.860 Now this comes days after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth 00:02:14.860 --> 00:02:19.900 declared on Twitter that no contractor, supplier, or partner of the US military 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:23.740 can do business with Anthropic, because Anthropic CEO, Dario Amade, 00:02:23.740 --> 00:02:27.460 refused to allow the Pentagon to use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans 00:02:27.460 --> 00:02:31.140 and the deployment of fully autonomous weapons systems, and that sucks. 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:35.180 Amade responded yesterday to Hegseth on Anthropic's blog to say, 00:02:35.180 --> 00:02:38.220 he doesn't believe this designation is legally sound 00:02:38.220 --> 00:02:42.020 and that he has no choice, but to challenge it in court. 00:02:42.020 --> 00:02:47.220 Oof, I'm not sure if it's just me, but there's some serious heated rivalry energy 00:02:47.220 --> 00:02:50.380 coming off of Hegseth and Amade, except instead of hockey, 00:02:50.380 --> 00:02:54.860 it's mass surveillance and autonomous murder robots, and I'm not excited anymore. 00:02:54.860 --> 00:02:58.700 Despite going to war against the literal department of war, 00:02:58.700 --> 00:03:01.740 Anthropic has found itself with some notable allies. 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:04.900 Senator Kirsten Gillbrand called the Pentagon's move 00:03:04.900 --> 00:03:10.100 short-sighted, self-destructive, and a gift to our adversaries, and Microsoft has stated that after reviewing 00:03:10.100 --> 00:03:14.100 the designation, it will continue to do business with Anthropic, which is good news 00:03:14.100 --> 00:03:18.860 because Anthropic is going to need that business. Now that, according to the AI industry, 00:03:18.860 --> 00:03:22.020 Sugar Daddy and Shovel Salesman, Jensen Wong, 00:03:22.020 --> 00:03:26.620 NVIDIA will be holstering the money gun it's had pointed at the AI bubble. 00:03:26.620 --> 00:03:30.700 It shoots money. Wong said at a Morgan Stanley conference this week 00:03:30.700 --> 00:03:34.460 that NVIDIA's recent investments in both open AI and Anthropic, 00:03:34.460 --> 00:03:39.220 30 billion and 10 billion respectively, are likely to be its last, 00:03:39.220 --> 00:03:42.620 and the whopping 100 billion open AI NVIDIA deal 00:03:42.620 --> 00:03:46.480 that Wong announced last September is officially dead. 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:50.440 I guess that announcement about investing up to $100 billion 00:03:50.440 --> 00:03:53.840 was just something that Wong said in the heat of the moment and he never really meant it. 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:59.600 So Anthropic might just survive, but XAI is in real trouble according to CEO 00:03:59.600 --> 00:04:05.200 and melting wax sculpture, Elon Musk. XAI just failed to block a California law 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:09.320 passed in late 2024, requiring AI companies to publicly disclose 00:04:09.320 --> 00:04:15.560 what data they used to train their models. XAI's arguments cited everything from trade secrets 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:18.920 to free speech, to the fact that people would just be kind of bored 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:22.640 by all the stuff in the disclosures and like wouldn't even want to see them anyways. 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:27.680 Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to convince US district judge, Jesus Bernal, 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:32.880 who said XAI failed to show the law would force them to reveal any actual trade secrets 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:39.240 and that the company traded in frequent abstractions and hypotheticals instead of real evidence of harm. 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:43.800 The lawsuit will continue, but XAI has to comply with the law in the meantime, 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:48.720 which could see Musk sharing information he'd rather open AI had no knowledge of. 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.800 Information like who our sponsor is. Why do they know? 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:56.560 Little fun fact before we head into the quick bits. I was joking before we don't read off a teleprompter. 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:00.640 We make up the script as we go, okay? None of this is real. 00:05:00.640 --> 00:05:04.800 So, hmm, let's make up something about how Apple 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:09.120 is now blocking US users from downloading ByteDances Chinese apps, 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.560 even if they have a valid Chinese app store account. 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:15.720 Before the TikTok US entity deal was reached, 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.920 Apple had listed 11 ByteDance apps that would no longer be available in the US, 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:25.160 starting January 19th, 2025, and it looks like that policy is now being enforced 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:32.480 for the apps that weren't covered by the deal, which include Duyen, Dubau, Fanky Novel, Flipkut, 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.880 Hypec, Lark, Quank, and Goth, Goath. 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:41.520 Banning app seems bad. However, these are apps you think about 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:45.640 so little you didn't even realize two of them were made up, and I guarantee you, 00:05:45.640 --> 00:05:49.360 it's not the ones you think. One thing that's luckily not made up 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.380 is that Apple Music will be rolling out transparency tags 00:05:52.380 --> 00:05:56.240 for AI-generated music, labeling tracks across four categories 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:01.960 depending on how much AI was involved in making them. The catch, it's entirely opt-in, 00:06:01.960 --> 00:06:06.600 meaning labels and distributors only have to disclose the use of AI tools 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:10.120 if they feel like it, which is great, because record labels have such a long 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:13.160 and storied history of being completely honest about everything. 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:18.120 This is totally going to work, guys, and it will absolutely fix the platform 100%. 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.240 The first MacBook Neo benchmarks just hit geek bench, 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:26.240 and since the $599 laptop runs the same A18 Pro chip 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:30.000 as the iPhone 16 Pro, the scores are nearly identical, 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:35.320 sitting just 61 points ahead in single-core and 327 points ahead in multicore. 00:06:35.320 --> 00:06:41.440 According to Tom's guide, that puts single-core performance well ahead of the M1 MacBook Air. 00:06:41.440 --> 00:06:44.720 No doubt partially thanks to the newer three-nanometer process, 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:48.480 though multicore is roughly the same. We've now got iPhones 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:53.440 that are more powerful than MacBooks from a few years ago, so we're putting those phone chips back in MacBooks, 00:06:53.440 --> 00:06:57.800 which may be now one of the best bang for your buck options on the market from Apple. 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:03.480 Times are wild. Wikipedia editors have discovered that a nonprofit called the Open Knowledge Association 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.960 has been paying contractors to translate Wikipedia articles 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:11.640 using chat GBT and Gemini, which is against Wikipedia's own rules. 00:07:11.640 --> 00:07:16.000 Unsurprisingly, those translations have been stuffing articles with hallucinated citations, 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.680 fabricated sources, and paragraphs pulled from completely unrelated material. 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:25.760 Wikipedia's response was to keep using them anyway, but with stricter oversight. 00:07:25.760 --> 00:07:29.280 The OKAs fix deploy a second AI 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:33.720 to check the first AI's work. If you hallucinate a hallucination, 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:37.680 is that hallucin-a-ception? Probably ask chat GBT. 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:41.360 And Roblox is rolling out a real-time AI chat filter 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:44.880 that doesn't just block profanity, it rephrases it. 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:49.280 So instead of your messages appearing as a bunch of hashtags when you call someone a naughty word, 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:52.280 the AI rewrites it into something civil 00:07:52.280 --> 00:07:59.360 while preserving your original intent, like turning hurry TF up into just hurry up, much better. 00:08:00.100 --> 00:08:03.640 The feature was developed with Roblox's Teen Council, 00:08:03.640 --> 00:08:08.960 a carefully selected group of teenagers who inadvertently became wise beyond their years 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:13.520 after being groomed on Roblox. So now, when you announce to your Phantom Forces lobby, 00:08:14.520 --> 00:08:20.200 so now when you announce to your Phantom Forces lobby that you will in fact end their bloodlines 00:08:20.200 --> 00:08:23.920 because of what they've done, the AI can translate that internal rage 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:28.280 into something about how you don't have to have kids to lead a fulfilling life, 00:08:28.280 --> 00:08:32.920 and I guarantee your life will be fulfilled if you come back on Monday for some more 00:08:32.920 --> 00:08:37.840 completely unscripted tech news that we say out loud as soon as it pops into our head. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:42.760 And thank goodness. Can you imagine if all of this stuff was true?