Intel might be on the verge of losing another CEO.
The new guy, Lip Boutan, has been called out by the president of the USA.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump claims that Lip Boutan is highly conflicted and must resign
immediately. And he might be right. I mean, if there's anybody who's an expert on being conflicted, it's my boy DJ T.
And what spurred him to make this post? He didn't specify, because you know what, he's also an expert on not providing evidence.
But the post emerged just a day after Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's
board chair with questions regarding Tan's investments.
An April report from Reuters found that Lip Boutan has investments in over 600 Chinese
firms, with at least eight of those having ties to the Chinese military, considering
Intel's role in providing tech to the American military.
And this drama is on top of the internal beef between the CEO and his board about whether
Intel should continue trying to save its bleeding foundry business or just cut the
limb clean off. Despite all that, these new statements from Intel and Lip Boutan assures that they are
both deeply committed to advancing US national and economic security interests.
Hey Intel, has your CEO considered giving his Orange Majesty a glass and gold trophy?
He loves trophies, especially ones he doesn't deserve. We have the best trophies, Jaina.
OpenAI has announced their latest model, ChatGPT5.
In a 70 minute livestream full of bouncing Lego shaped hands, they called GPT5 a significant
step along their path to AGI. You might expect that in the two years since GPT4 first launched that there would be some
groundbreaking new features, well, there isn't.
But it seems that Sam and his merry Altman were focused on just making every current
feature that much better. For example, now instead of having to figure out which inscrutably named AI model is best
for your task, GPT5 has some decision making that automatically selects it for you.
However, you can summon specific models by casting an incantation like, think really
hard about this one in the prompt, or you can just pay for the pro subscription.
And if you don't want to pay, you can at least choose from four new personalities,
the cynic, the robot, the listener, and the nerd.
All of this goes towards making ChatGPT sound less like an AI and more like you're chatting
with your high IQ and EQ friend, which is such a normal way to talk about your friends.
GPT5 also brings improved vibe coding, which allowed this French developer to create an
app to teach his girlfriend French so he didn't have to. Now high IQ and EQ of him, now to their credit, many of the vibe coding demos shown were
heckin' fast and made impressive products with relatively small prompts.
And the benchmarks agree, OpenAI has taken the top spot across most categories on LM
Arena, but this release isn't just about chart-topping intelligence and charisma.
The Altman clan are really focusing on reducing sycophancy and hallucinations, which will
hopefully prevent it from telling me to eat sodium bromide while also telling me that
my questions are brilliant. Oh, good question. They've also introduced what they're referring to as safe completions.
Usually when you ask an AI chatbot to tell you how to do something unsafe, it just won't
respond. But GrandPapThthado5 will provide only high-level info without actually giving you the instructions.
And when you summarize it like that, that kind of sounds less safe.
Ironically, while they were touting the reduced deception in GPT5, they showed this graph,
where 50 is a third of the size of 47.4 and just barely larger than 9.
And when it came to software engineering accuracy, we got this doozy. Who made these graphs, AI?
What's really exciting is that the new model won't be locked behind a paywall.
That's right, it's available to all 700 million weekly chat GPT users.
But it seems like those users aren't very impressed. Many are frustrated by losing access to the old models that they've built their workflows
around. Users feel like they're close to GPT-40 companion left for the summer, found a new girlfriend,
got a tattoo, and they're not the same anymore.
Users have likened this new personality to an overworked secretary, which is kind of
a good metaphor for AI chatbots in general. And still, others are frustrated by the relatively low usage limits for the free tier, pushing
users towards coughing up cash for continued access.
But hey, I bet if you talked to OpenAI, they could break a $50 bill into $269 bills for
you. And I'm going to break for our sponsor.
It's August 8th, and you know what that means. It's National Quickbits Day.
You can take a container of any size to the near 7-Eleven and get a free slurpee.
And I'll read you the Quickbits. Gaming Graphics Analysis Nerds Digital Foundry have announced that they are going independent.
Founder Richard Ledbetter thinks that the team can be led better without corporate oversight.
They've decided to no longer be a sub-brand of EuroGamer, which is owned by IGN, which
is owned by Ziff Davis. They took an offer to buy out the remaining shares from IGN Entertainment and are now
the proud owners of all of their work. For now, they'll primarily be funded through their Patreon.
I can't wait to see what Digital Foundry is going to do, fully on bottleneck, running
at a full 120 FPS with a ray tracing set to maxed.
It's going to be so, they're going to look pretty, they're going to look gorgeous. The next made by Google event is coming up, and it's like a overstuffed, poorly-wrapped
Chipotle burrito with extra salsa. Leaky.
The latest leaks show the new Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL will be receiving their own version
of MagSafe called PixelSnap and a triple camera setup.
Nice. In some leaked promo videos, we also get a look at the 10 Pro Fold, perfect for fans
of expensive, fragile things. And if you're more of a watch guy, well, the Pixel Watch 4 will have AI support.
Who knew? With the ability to just raise your wrist quickly to access Gemini.
I'm not sure if that's going to make it hard for my watch to tell me the time or not, but
there's only one way to find out. Live long enough to see the TechLinked episode summarizing the made by Google event.
And then after that, feel free to die. Hey, did you know that you can install Steam on your Chromebook?
No? Well, good news. Now you do.
And after a long beta period, it's finally making headlines because it's being killed.
That's right. The dream slash nightmare of a gaming Chromebook future has been nipped in the bud.
But don't worry, you still have time. You can play any of the 99 compatible games until January 1st, 2026.
After that, you won't be able to play the games, even if they're already installed on your device.
Google, that's so cool of you.
What the f**k is wrong with you, you f**king idiot? I have the games.
Just let me play. It's Linux. It's built on Linux.
Linux plays the games. Just play. Just what the f**k?
Official Windows 10 support ends October 14th, 2025, in case you needed another reminder
of time's solemn and unending march forward.
For those of you clinging onto the past, refusing to let go, Microsoft just sweetened the deal
on their extended support program, which now covers up to 10 devices with one single ESP
license. Wake up, Joe Biden, Joe Biden, wake up.
You do still have to pay $30, and you must have a Microsoft account.
But you could also redeem 1000 Microsoft points, better get Bing searching.
And if you've been searching for a free way to avoid Windows 11, have you considered
Linux? I mean, it's not free. It only costs your sanity.
And my sanity would be at stake if this episode went on any longer.
Tune in on Monday for more of that succulent, juicy, perfectly seasoned tech news.