1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,760 O come ye tech news, joyful and disruptive, O come ye to Teck, LinkedIn, learn the news. 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:16,720 It's December 3rd. Is that too early for Christmas music? What's it? Oh, uh. Intel now owns 1% of the gaming GPU market. 3 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,000 Huzzah! We did it! Yes! 4 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:26,240 Now according to John Petty Research, Intel, the multi-billion-dollar tiny underdog of the 5 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:31,680 discrete GPU market has crawled its way up from a nearly 0% market share. 6 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:37,040 So although 1% is a minuscule foothold, at least they're on the mountain. 7 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:43,200 JPR also shows AMD has moved up to a 7% share of the gaming GPU market, 8 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,560 leaving NVIDIA to still control a whopping 92%. 9 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaking of AMD though, it's been reported that both their CPUs and GPUs are about to see 10 00:00:54,800 --> 00:01:00,880 price increases, with claims suggesting that AMD's 16GB cards could rise as much as $40. 11 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,440 However, the good news is that the 25% import tax on Chinese-made electronics that could have 12 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:13,600 spiked PC component costs even more has been delayed again all the way to November 2026, 13 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,200 so maybe you'll be able to afford a GPU after all. 14 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,400 If you do buy a new GPU, from Best Buy at least, hopefully it's actually a GPU. 15 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,960 And not just ROX, which is apparently what Redditor Nardead received. 16 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:30,960 Upon submitting a customer service claim, they were notified by Best Buy that 17 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:37,920 after its investigation, Best Buy would NOT be replacing or refunding the $1,200 purchase. 18 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,960 Talk about a ROCKY customer service experience. 19 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:47,760 Micron has announced it's killing its consumer memory brand crucial after 29 years, 20 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,680 but it's not because they don't love you. It's because they love money more. 21 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:57,360 The company says it needs to improve supply and support for larger strategic customers 22 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:03,680 in faster growing segments. Which is CorpoSpeak for AI Data Centers Equals Cash. 23 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,840 Ah, who got cha-ching cha-ching cha-ching? Bling bling coins. 24 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,000 Crucial products will continue shipping through February 2026. 25 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,720 Then it's Goodbye Forever to the brand that's been stuffing RAM into gaming PCs 26 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,720 since you cried to the I'm Still Here song from Treasure Planet 27 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,680 as it played on a demo TV in Radio Shack. Remember that? 28 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,440 I know you do. I was there. And it's not just Micron. 29 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,440 The memory market has gotten so chaotic that one report claims 30 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:37,360 Samsung Semiconductor Division is now negotiating supply contacts with themselves. 31 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:41,040 With LPDDR5X prices more than doubling this year, 32 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:46,160 Samsung can allegedly only fulfill about 70% of its existing DRAM orders. 33 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:51,200 They're renegotiating the contract terms with their own mobile division 34 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,200 to continue putting Samsung memory into Samsung devices. 35 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:03,760 You know, family dynamics. It's tough sometimes. Now Samsung released a statement saying they have not rejected certain customer requests. 36 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,600 But that's not really what we're talking about here, Samsung. Are you okay? 37 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:13,280 SK Hynix doesn't expect the shortage to be resolved until at least the first half of 2027. 38 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,840 But despite this, both Korean giants will not be ramping up production, 39 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:24,400 choosing to prioritize long-term profitability and to minimize the risk of oversupply. 40 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,600 Which is Corpo speak again for, Holy f**k, bubble my burst at any moment, taking the US economy with it, 41 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:33,280 and we have bunkers we're trying to finance. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 42 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,840 So if you're planning to upgrade your RAM anytime soon, 43 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,600 maybe take out a second mortgage. Or just accept that 16 gigs is plenty. 44 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:46,240 It's fine. It's definitely enough to play a pirated copy of the official treasure planet game 45 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,400 on a Game Boy Advance emulator. And that's all that matters. It's the only game. 46 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:55,120 That's good. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared a code red. 47 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:05,520 And not in the fun Mountain Dew way. Marshaling all hands to improve chat GBT as Google's Gemini 3 steamrolls past it in industry benchmarks. 48 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:11,440 Now that's according to a Wall Street Journal report, and it's a wild turning of the tables compared to three years ago. 49 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,920 When Google declared its own code red after chat GBT launched. 50 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:24,800 Since Gemini 3 rolled out on November 18th, monthly active users have surged to 650 million up from 450 million in July. 51 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,120 And in response, OpenAI is reportedly pulling back on extra bells and whistles, 52 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,600 like its pulse recommendation feature, additional AI agents for shopping and healthcare, 53 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,640 and plans to bake ads into chat GBT. 54 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:41,440 All the focus, all of their efforts on not getting bodied by Google. 55 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,560 Altman says they'll release a new reasoning model next week 56 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,160 that beats Gemini 3 in their internal evaluations. 57 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,600 Evaluations like, who is Sam's favorite boy? 58 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,600 And who thinks Sam is absolutely rocking those crew next letters? 59 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:01,760 It better be you new chat GBT. Meanwhile, Google is using its definitely superior AI 60 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,560 to replace headlines in Google's Discover Feed with unrelated clickbait. 61 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,720 For example, it turned this headline about a Baldur's Gate 3 in-game exploit 62 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,160 into, BG3 players exploit children. 63 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:22,000 All while Grock limps along in the back of the pack as it justifies genocides to save Elon Musk's brain from theoretical vaporization. 64 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,840 So, AI's going great everyone. Everything's gonna be fine. 65 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:30,240 Especially if you check out our sponsor, Time for quick bits, five stories, 30 seconds each, 66 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:36,880 zero time to process your emotions. Let's go! India's government has decided not to force all new phones shipped in the country 67 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,160 to come pre-installed with a government-made cybersecurity app. 68 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,440 The government drew sharp criticism over the plan from the public 69 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,040 and from Apple, who reportedly refused to go along with it, 70 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,400 saying the mandate didn't jive with its privacy policies. 71 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,680 And that's not a quote, but just imagine Tim Cook talking about stuff not jiving with him. 72 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:00,240 I think he would. Sorry, Linda. That ain't gonna jive this time. 73 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:08,720 I'm really happy about this because when I'm in India, the only thing I want immediately installed is some delicious shahi paneer 74 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:17,120 and naan in my belly, you know what I'm saying? So, Samsung just introduced the Galaxy Z tri-fold, its first triple-fold phone. 75 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,240 The tri-fold is thin and pocketable, like a phone. 76 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,560 Powered by a customized Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, 77 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:30,480 but unlike a phone that is not like this phone, it folds out into a full 10-inch screen. 78 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:35,600 As the first tri-fold phone that I'm aware of to have an official North American release planned, 79 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:43,280 it's gonna cost you, though, with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage priced at $2,449. 80 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:50,480 When it comes to the tri-fold, the real question is, who's gonna fold and pay those prices? Probably a surprising amount of people. 81 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:55,280 New York now has a new law that forces retailers to disclose when they use 82 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:59,920 consumers' personal data to set prices, aka surveillance pricing. 83 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:05,840 Online shoppers in the US state are now seeing a blunt new line under some prices. 84 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:09,760 This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data. 85 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,040 The law is probably clinging a lot of people into the fact that this apparently 86 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,960 has already been happening. Now, you'll know when you might be paying more just because your profile is yelling, 87 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,680 Hey, I'm shopping here and I have very low price sensitivity. 88 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:25,440 Also, I'm from New York, by the way. 89 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:33,840 Android 16 is getting a batch of new features, including AI notification summaries and an AI-powered 90 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:39,280 notification organizer. Kind of a wild move considering how poorly Apple's initial attempt 91 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:45,760 at the same feature went. It was suspended after a BBC complaint about factual errors in their 92 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:50,480 news alerts. So your notifications are about to lie to you and your Google Home app is getting 93 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,680 worse, because sadly, some features are being quietly removed, like the Call Home feature, 94 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,960 which used to let you call your Google Home devices from your phone. 95 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:04,560 This has left a lot of parents, including mine, frustrated because their easy check-in method is gone. 96 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:09,200 I don't care the dinner is in five minutes, mom, I'm almost finished the solar server level on 97 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:13,920 Treasure Planet. Oh, you're so annoying. I should have moved out already, probably. 98 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:22,400 And robotics company Engine AI just unveiled the T-800. Yes, it's named after that T-800, 99 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:29,280 a 1.73 meter humanoid robot that, in their video, kicks in a pair of saloon doors and then starts 100 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:35,200 throwing spin kicks like my 14-year-old cousin after a white monster energy drink. It's scary, 101 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:42,240 the kid. The video also has the T-800 walk by a smaller robot about the size of Unitree's popular 102 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:48,480 G1 robot, and Unitree took that personally. They responded by dropping a video of their 103 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:56,320 1.8 meter H1 robot absolutely wailing on the 1.3 meter G1. And I'm not sure what they were hoping 104 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:01,680 for, but it looks like a fully grown adult beating up a fourth grader. So if my cousin shows up at 105 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:06,960 your Christmas party with a white monster, you know who to call. Unitree, eliminate the threat 106 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:12,880 of children forever. And that's a wrap. See you Friday for more tech news, more AI chaos, 107 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:17,680 and probably more reasons to wonder if we're living in a simulation that's running out of memory. 108 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,800 It's getting a little confused. Just kidding.