We've got a great show for you today, which is easy for me to say now before we've filmed any of it.
We'll see. Valve has released an updated stable version of Steam OS that makes it sound like you might be
able to install it on third-party handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go and ASUS ROG Ally,
because Valve explicitly provides instructions on how to do that right here.
They even called the patch notes for this update Go Country.
But I'm still skeptical. This is a pretty big deal.
Valve's gone from lightly hinting that maybe you could run Steam OS on something other than an
officially licensed handheld to saying, oh, you want to take Steam OS for a rip on your own sled?
Well, frickin' send it, bud. As long as you're installing it on something with AMD hardware and an NVMe drive,
which describes most of the Windows gaming handhelds out there, and I'm just now being told
many desktop computers. Valve also said they're currently working with select partners on officially licensed
Steam OS devices, which is great. Keep them coming.
But until those show up, it sounds like you could install Steam OS on devices like the updated
Zotac Zone with a Ryzen AI HX370, which is shown off at Computex,
or even MSI's new AMD-powered handheld, the horribly-named Claw A8-BZ2eem,
the official handheld of Adele Dazeem.
OpenAI is getting serious about hardware and acquiring one of legendary Apple hardware
designer Joni Ives design companies for $6.5 billion.
So Joni's picking up some new sad designer glasses, okay?
In a joint update on OpenAI's website, Joni and Sam Altman introduced the company called
IO Lowercase, which has already been working on OpenAI hardware since last year.
Joni will continue to work with OpenAI and IO, but will not become an OpenAI employee
he'll be staying at his other design company, LoveFrom.
I know a few of you were worried about that. But what is this mysterious hardware?
Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, Sam told OpenAI employees,
it's not a phone or glasses while reliable supply chain informant Ming-Chi Kuo said
it's going to be a small device you can wear around your neck, like the dozen or so of those
that have launched and done quite, well, yeah, they've launched.
But hey, this collab has the power of friendship on its side.
Sam and Joni have become so close, I've now talked about Sam like he's an iPhone.
Sam is a rare visionary, utterly inspiring.
In other AI news, although Google's new VO3 can generate video, sound effects, music,
and lip synced voiceover all at once, it's only available through Google's $250 AI ultra
subscription and as CNET wonders, who the heck is going to pay for that?
The answer is all the people currently pumping the internet full of VO3-generated videos,
including fake Fortnite streamers, crazily well-executed fake pharmaceutical ads,
and trippy videos of fake people having a crisis over whether they're real or not.
Just fun stuff. Very shareable. Honestly though, this is the first time I've been able to find AI-generated videos.
Genuinely funny, not just funny because they're spaghetti hands or whatever.
I'm sure that'll get old though. And Anthropic finally released a new model, Claude Four, in the opus and sonnet varieties.
It's apparently focused on and is very good at coding now, which is a bit of a pivot.
Claude was previously known for giving more creative and human-like responses.
But it still is creative. Like in Anthropic's safety report, they said that in a fictional scenario,
when Claude Four discovered that the engineer who planned to replace it with a newer model
was cheating on their spouse, Claude threatened to reveal the affair if it gets replaced,
which I wouldn't even think of. I just, you know, I just let them do it.
You got me. Alright, now we've got some great quick bits too.
Just wait till you see how okay these are.
Xiaomi, the world's third biggest phone maker, has unveiled its first mobile chipset made mostly in-house.
It's a 3nm 10-core SoC called the X-Ring 01.
And it's got some interesting customizations that Xiaomi says will let it compete with the best phone chipsets out there
when it launches inside the 15S Pro phone, mostly in China.
One early unboxing seemed to show the 15S Pro beating a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite in the AnTuTu benchmark.
But another one shows the X-Ring 01 losing to both the 8 Elite
and another flagship, the MediaTek Dimensity 9400.
So I'm kind of regretting including this story today. Next one's good though.
What? The Intel ARC B770, a gaming GPU that would be faster than the B580,
which I feel like I have to explain every time because the naming scheme is weird, might not be dead,
or even mostly dead, according to Dutch hardware site Tweakers.
Bit of an off-putting name, but did you know what they're like in Amsterdam, man?
Tweakers says multiple sources they spoke to had Computex confirmed Intel plans
to introduce the B770 by the end of the year.
Fingers crossed for that.
And for AMD to stop shooting themselves in the foot by letting supposed marketing guy Frank Azor
continue to say stuff online like the majority of gamers have no use
for more than eight gigs of memory. Frank, stop.
I don't think he's going to though because he's been killing the PR game since 2019.
Killing it dead. Speaking of endings, Mozilla is killing two services
it previously acquired, the cross-platform bookmarking service Pocket
and the fake review detector, FakeSpot, because they're choosing to invest
in what moves the internet forward, not back. And the way people save and consume content on the web
has supposedly evolved, or at least the content has.
Made-up studies show the internet is now about 65% Google VO videos.
Pocketeers have until October 8th to export your saves as a simple list of links,
unless Kevin Rose succeeds in trying to buy it
and presumably integrate it with the platform he founded.
Dig the other Reddit. And we finally get to look at some of the wacky stuff
shown off at Computex, like ASUS's new 3000 watt power supply for professionals,
which you can't even plug in in most North America. And that's fine, I didn't want it anyway.
ASUS also showed off a monitor that can reach 610 hertz.
And I have to admit, that's 10 hertz more than 600.
Thermalright's frozen creator is a vertical Strix Halo mini PC
that looks just cyberpunk and cool, and I like it.
What? Zygmotex Connect Pro CPU Cooler
has basically a phone screen on the front that you can use to run Windows.
So just take that and throw it inside Inwin's Chronomancy PC chassis
with a motorized side panel, and you'd have two things that make me confused
and a little upset. Which is exactly how I'll feel if you don't come back on Monday for more tech news.
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