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Yes! Ooh! Mm, mm, mm.

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Ha ha ha ha. Oh, damn. Bam, sucker.

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Oh, wow. Yeah.

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AMD has finally properly unveiled their new

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Radeon RX9070 and 9070XT graphics cards.

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And honestly, I'm glad they waited this long. The vibes were off at CES.

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And going through NVIDIA's dumpster fire of an RTX 50 series launch in the meantime,

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really makes you appreciate this launch more. Because the RX9070 will start at $550 U.S. dollars

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with the 9070XT starting at 600.

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Although it's pretty apparent that even after a two month delay, AMD was still unsure

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about the final prices. Their presentation stream has obvious audio replacements

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anytime they mention it. By our DNA4 is able to deliver fantastic performance

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for $150 less. But that price means that despite the 9070XT

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performing about 2% worse than the RTX 5070Ti,

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with Team Red's card, you get 23% more performance per dollar.

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And there are overclocked versions that perform much better,

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which will be available for way more than 600 bucks.

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But listen, these aren't like NVIDIA's Melty GPUs, okay?

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They'll all use standard eight pin power connectors.

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Although the Sapphire 9070XT Nitro Plus

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has a 12 volt two by six plug in the back, okay?

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That one gets its freak on a little bit, okay? But the rest are normal.

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According to AMD's benchmarks and slides and whatnot,

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their new FSR for upscaling tech is way better

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and will work with more than 30 games at launch.

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Although it is exclusive to the new

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RDNA4 based 90 series cards, boo.

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But there's lots to be excited about here, better encoding, better ray tracing,

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better AI capabilities. And both cards come with a healthy 16 gigabytes of VRAM.

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Check out the LTT video, I guess, for a more thorough breakdown

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and sit tight for proper reviews before the 90 series actually launches

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next Thursday, March 6th. And also maybe sit tight for an RX 9060,

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because as spotted by video cards with a Z, AMD reps said during their Chinese launch event,

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that card will be coming in Q2. And I had Dennis confirm it.

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Hmm, do I trust him? Also, there might be a higher end XTX model.

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We're getting carried away here, okay? Let's calm down. OpenAI finally launched the heavily teased GPT 4.5,

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but despite being their biggest model ever,

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the company described it as not a frontier model

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before removing that from the official documentation.

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AI people are kind of struggling to grok this release,

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because in some math and science benchmarks, GPT 4.5 does worse than XAI's grok 3.

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The new model doesn't seem very good on paper,

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but some users are agreeing with Sam Altman's claim

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that it's more emotionally intelligent.

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It's about the vibes, man. In the race to build a hyper-intelligent machine god,

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right now we're at the stage where we build a chatbot that's comfortable

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passing the duchy pond the left-hand side.

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Okay, but really, Sam, what gives? Why the low numbers?

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His answer, straight up, we're out of GP use.

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We don't know where they went. And other AI companies are giving excuses too.

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In a memo to employees, Google co-founder Sergey Brin wrote

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that we could totally have artificial general intelligence, or AGI, if you guys just worked 60 hours a week.

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He called it the sweet spot of productivity. Brin went on to say,

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don't work more than 60 hours a week,

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but also make sure you don't work less, or you could end up demoralizing your coworkers.

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And then we definitely won't make it to AGI.

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A term that Google DeepMind boss Demis Hasabis

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just admitted is becoming kind of a meaningless term

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while still somehow remaining very important.

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I don't know, there's just a vibe about it. Mozilla has once again changed language

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in their terms of service that really makes it sound

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like the company owns and will sell the personal data of Firefox users.

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Why would anyone think that when all they did was delete an explicit promise

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to never sell users personal data? Ah, you know what, I see it now.

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This isn't the first time that language in Mozilla's documentation

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has caused concern, but as in previous instances,

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it seems like Mozilla might just be really bad

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at doing words good. In responses on forums and to news outlets,

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the company has tried to clarify that they don't own Firefox user data.

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They aren't selling personally identifiable information

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and the non-exclusive royalty-free worldwide license

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to information gathered through Firefox is necessary for basic functionality,

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but many users remain skeptical, somewhat justifiably, given all that language.

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Oh, you already thought it was good and then QuickBits was through the hoop

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for the buzzer beater overtime snack?

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Ha, ha, ha, yeah. Instagram Reels users were surprised this week

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when many of their feeds turned into a never-ending scroll

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through gruesome videos of violence and dead bodies.

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After enough people were traumatized, Meta revealed that this wasn't a fun takeover collab

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with 4chan, but an error for which the tech giant apologized

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in a statement given to 404 Media and other outlets.

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Oopsies, hope your kid didn't grab your phone that day.

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What the? Microsoft has announced they're shutting down venerable video calling app Skype

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for good. Oh, well.

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Anyway, Meta, oh, they're back. They've shown off a second-gen prototype

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of their Aria smart glasses, which could lead to next-gen Meta ray bands

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with state-of-the-art sensors, including six degrees of freedom slam cameras.

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I don't know what those are. I just knew I wanted to say slam cameras at some point today,

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but Meta could face competition from an AI company called Sesame,

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who's creating their own smart glasses to host their own voice assistant,

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which is currently blowing journalists' minds with how natural it sounds

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and how much it wants to hear more about what they think.

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Easily pleased. This week, Warner Brothers shut down Monolith Productions,

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the studio behind the Shadow of Mordor franchise, which was loved for its nemesis system

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that generated unique orc villains that actually remembered

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how you frickin' embarrassed them in front of their orc buddies multiple times.

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But rather than let other studios use that system, WB just locked it behind a patent until 2036.

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And for the sake of contrast, EA just released the source code

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for four classic Command and Conquer games

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because, you know, they're insecure and need to hear praise.

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You're not tricking me, EA. And someone has invented Tastovision yet again.

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A team of international researchers published a study showing their prototype device

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called what else, eTaste. It could successfully reproduce complex flavor combinations

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by dispatching gels through an electromagnetic pump.

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This could allow you to try menu items before you order or taste the ocean salt

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off of Mario's torso. Ah, what, ah, I'm sorry, ah, I'm sorry.

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I'm sorry, that image just never left my brain. Why did Nintendo do that?

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Look, just come back on Monday for more tech news and let's just forget I ever said anything, okay?

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Any of it. As far as anyone else is concerned, we just both stood here and made facial expressions.

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There are some really good ones.