1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,880 It's time for tech news, and you know what that means. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:09,080 I know what it means, but why don't you say it? So I know you know. 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,120 OpenAI just had a weekend that puts the one at Bernie's 4 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:15,840 to shame. The twists and turns have honestly made my head hurt, 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,760 but here's our summary. Late Friday evening, CEO Sam Altman 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,280 was fired by the four other members of the OpenAI board 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,560 while President Greg Brockman was removed as chairman. 8 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,000 They wanted an Altman. You're too much of a normal man. Upon hearing the news, Greg quit 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,560 and tweeted his account of recent events, implying, possibly unintentionally, 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:43,400 that OpenAI chief scientist and board member, Ilya Sutskiver, was the brutee in this Shakespearean drama. 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,560 Most of you will get that. What's that knife for, bro? You two brutes? 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,880 Shit. It's still not clear what the board's exact reasons 13 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:55,480 for the shakeup were, and the story is complicated by OpenAI's truly weird corporate structure, 14 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,360 where the non-profit board controls the capped profit company. 15 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:04,720 But some speculate that Sam seeking investment for a new AI chip company played a role 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,440 as OpenAI's board accused him of being not consistently 17 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:13,800 candid in his communications with them. Despite a later memo from OpenAI's COO, 18 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,580 Brad Lightcap, cool name, definitively claiming 19 00:01:17,580 --> 00:01:21,040 that Sam was not fired for malfeasance, 20 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:26,580 a French word meaning weasel. If that confused you, then you know how everyone, 21 00:01:26,620 --> 00:01:31,940 including the OpenAI board, felt this weekend. They apparently agreed to step down 22 00:01:31,940 --> 00:01:36,740 and bring back Sam and Greg, right before Microsoft swooped in 23 00:01:36,740 --> 00:01:41,620 and announced they'd hired Sam, Greg, and a bunch of other OpenAI employees. 24 00:01:41,620 --> 00:01:45,580 Right after that, OpenAI hired Twitch co-founder, 25 00:01:45,580 --> 00:01:52,780 Emmet Scheer, as interim CEO, replacing day and a half old interim CEO, Mura Murati, 26 00:01:52,780 --> 00:01:56,660 presumably because she just needed more experience, and her name sounds like a car. 27 00:01:56,660 --> 00:02:02,100 We can't have that. But really, Emmet may have been chosen because, like the safety-minded board members, 28 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:06,380 he said he wants AI development to slow down. 29 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:09,900 He also said that CEO jobs could be replaced by AI, 30 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:14,940 so slowing down means he could enjoy his new position for longer than five minutes, so that's probably. 31 00:02:14,940 --> 00:02:20,940 Emmet may soon be captain of a ghost ship, though, a letter from OpenAI employees threatening to resign 32 00:02:20,940 --> 00:02:24,420 unless the board steps down and brings back Sam. 33 00:02:24,420 --> 00:02:31,460 And calling back bars to the break room. And what? Was signed by 650 of the company's 770 employees 34 00:02:31,460 --> 00:02:35,300 on Monday morning, including Ilya Sutskiver. 35 00:02:35,300 --> 00:02:38,620 A2, Brute? What? Brute? 36 00:02:38,620 --> 00:02:43,660 You're back. What are you doing here? Confusingly, Ilya tweeted that he deeply regrets 37 00:02:43,660 --> 00:02:46,740 his participation in the board's actions. 38 00:02:46,740 --> 00:02:50,060 A tweet Greg reposted with a heart emoji. 39 00:02:50,060 --> 00:02:53,740 Mura Murati also replied with a heart to Sam's tweet 40 00:02:53,780 --> 00:02:57,540 saying, I love OpenAI, so I don't know whether these people are actually still trying 41 00:02:57,540 --> 00:03:01,060 to be friends despite all the drama, or whether they just don't know what emojis mean. 42 00:03:01,060 --> 00:03:05,500 Now, here's the real kicker. The Verge claims multiple sources are saying 43 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,420 that Sam and Greg's Microsoft situation isn't a done deal 44 00:03:09,420 --> 00:03:13,340 and that they are still willing to return to OpenAI if the board resigns. 45 00:03:13,340 --> 00:03:16,980 And Sam did recently imply that the OpenAI team 46 00:03:16,980 --> 00:03:20,300 are all going to work together some way or the other. 47 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:25,100 As for Microsoft, well, they've invested billions in OpenAI, so whether they get Sam 48 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:29,300 or Sam returns to OpenAI with a new board, this is really a win-win for them. 49 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:33,780 And hey, how about a seat for old Satya while we're playing musical chairs, eh? 50 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:37,660 Ah, okay, back to work making a digital god. 51 00:03:37,660 --> 00:03:41,980 This whole thing sounds like the most hard to follow polycule I've ever heard of. 52 00:03:41,980 --> 00:03:46,860 Honestly, I'm just proud of myself for following it all the way through. Sunbird, the company nothing partnered with 53 00:03:46,860 --> 00:03:53,580 on their nothing chats iMessage compatible app for Android has apparently comically misrepresented 54 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:57,700 the security of their services. Multiple professional and amateur investigators 55 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:03,860 have claimed that the full contents of messages sent through Sunbird service are accessible in plain text 56 00:04:03,860 --> 00:04:09,540 by not only Sunbird, but by anyone with a smattering of hacker know-how, despite Sunbird claiming 57 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:12,980 not to collect any data because they use end-to-end encryption. 58 00:04:12,980 --> 00:04:17,140 On Twitter, Sunbird tried to dismiss security researchers' concerns, 59 00:04:17,180 --> 00:04:23,220 but all of their points seem to have been systematically refuted by a team from texts.com. 60 00:04:23,220 --> 00:04:27,100 When enough had been enough, nothing removed the chance beta 61 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:30,460 from the Play Store on Saturday, saying they were delaying the launch 62 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:35,220 to fix several bugs. In what, the Sunbird team's brains? 63 00:04:35,220 --> 00:04:38,780 These are probably like Southern Hemisphere bugs. Like rhino beetles. Yeah. 64 00:04:38,780 --> 00:04:41,980 And Sunbird themselves put their services on hold. 65 00:04:41,980 --> 00:04:45,300 Now this is another story where it's very unclear 66 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:49,820 what's actually going on. A text.com engineer was banned from Sunbird's Discord 67 00:04:49,820 --> 00:04:54,940 after making a tool that lets users delete Sunbird's copies of their stored data, 68 00:04:54,940 --> 00:04:58,180 which Sunbird is apparently storing. 69 00:04:58,180 --> 00:05:02,100 You know what, I think we better delay the launch though. Yeah, just let all blow over. 70 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:04,260 Yeah! Nice bits you got there. 71 00:05:05,380 --> 00:05:08,420 Be a shame if someone quickened them. 72 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:12,380 Reviews are out for AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 73 00:05:12,380 --> 00:05:16,540 and 7980X, and the general consensus is 74 00:05:16,540 --> 00:05:21,060 that these chips are sick AF. If your name isn't Brutus, that means they're good. 75 00:05:21,060 --> 00:05:26,300 Not only that, but they stand as a formidable and currently uncontested entry into the niche 76 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:29,660 of prosumer processors for high-end desktops. 77 00:05:29,660 --> 00:05:32,900 Ironically, a term coined by Intel doesn't feel good. 78 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:37,580 The top SKU, the 7980X model has 64 cores, 128 threads, 79 00:05:37,580 --> 00:05:42,500 a base block of 2.5 gigahertz and a turbo clock that can add up to 5.1 gigahertz. 80 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:46,820 Finally, a fitting heir to the Threadripper 3000 series. 81 00:05:46,820 --> 00:05:50,720 Here's hoping AMD won't get bored and completely skip a generation like they did 82 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:55,300 with the purely hypothetical Threadripper non-pro 5000 series. 83 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:58,700 It's leaving the throne unfilled. It's not right. Drop your crown, King. 84 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:02,220 Here. YouTube seems to be intentionally slowing itself down 85 00:06:02,220 --> 00:06:05,380 on Firefox and Safari, at least for some users. 86 00:06:05,380 --> 00:06:10,140 It looks like a hard-coded five-second delay that disappears when the site is fooled 87 00:06:10,140 --> 00:06:13,740 into thinking it's running on Chrome. Now, it's tempting to assume that Google 88 00:06:13,740 --> 00:06:17,500 is simply punishing users for using a competing browser, 89 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:23,180 but it's also plausible that this is a bug introduced by Google's heavy-handed ad block filtering. 90 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:26,240 Always remember, hand lawns razor and never attribute to malice 91 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,060 what can adequately be explained by neglect or incompetence, 92 00:06:30,060 --> 00:06:33,300 except in this case, it's, you know, it's Google. 93 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:37,500 I've done this before, but we don't know. NVIDIA and SK Hynex are working together 94 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:41,820 on a new GPU design, according to Korean news site, Joong-ang. 95 00:06:41,820 --> 00:06:47,120 The design would have HBM-4 memory chips stacked directly on top of the GPU, 96 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:51,180 like a hat that makes you much better at remembering what you said to Amanda in fourth grade. 97 00:06:51,180 --> 00:06:57,260 Like, what were you thinking? Get it off. This structure sounds similar to AMD's 3D Vcash 98 00:06:57,260 --> 00:07:01,380 used in the company's X3D processors, which are really good at gaming 99 00:07:01,380 --> 00:07:04,980 because they help you remember where the bomb sites are in Counter-Strike 2. 100 00:07:04,980 --> 00:07:08,020 That's what I think they do. I don't design processors. 101 00:07:08,020 --> 00:07:11,180 And, you know, Valorant for the win. I don't play that either. 102 00:07:11,180 --> 00:07:14,900 Details of Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake MX have leaked, 103 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:19,660 showing that the CPU, GPU, and memory will all be on the same SOC, 104 00:07:19,660 --> 00:07:23,140 like Apple's unified memory architecture. Ooh. 105 00:07:23,140 --> 00:07:27,380 Whoa. No, my watch. Stop that. This will be the first commercial release 106 00:07:27,380 --> 00:07:32,340 of the technology that Intel showed off to the press earlier this year at their Arizona fab. 107 00:07:32,340 --> 00:07:36,700 This leak is so big, it almost makes you forget that Meteor Lake U, 108 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:39,880 the architecture Lunar Lake MX is meant to replace, 109 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:45,360 hasn't actually been officially released yet, despite Intel's promise of a 2023 launch. 110 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,520 But I haven't forgotten, Pat. Your mind tricks don't work on me. 111 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,520 And if you paper launch the Meteor Lake U, I'm not sending you a Christmas card this year. 112 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:59,280 Oh my God, I came out of nowhere. You're getting cold. An auto tech company, Vallejo, 113 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,480 is suing NVIDIA after a video call Gaff 114 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:08,600 exposed a Ledge Trade secret theft. Basically, a Vallejo employee left for a job in NVIDIA 115 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,680 and took Vallejo's work with him. 116 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:16,320 This came to light months later when he accidentally screen-shared stolen code 117 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,800 during a video call with Vallejo employees, all because one employee couldn't make 118 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,060 a normal video call mistake, like forgetting to wear clothes. 119 00:08:25,060 --> 00:08:29,440 It wouldn't be nearly as embarrassing or criminal. And you shouldn't forget to come back on Wednesday 120 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,720 for more tech news. Also, you know, 121 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,760 gotta put some pants on. Just basic, basic respect for me.