1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Before I give you the tech news, I just want to ask, is this what you really want? 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,800 Like there is a faint chance that I could give you too much tech news 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:12,640 and your head might explode from knowledge. 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:18,600 Microsoft has shared its radical vision for what Windows computing will look like in the year 2030, 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,680 when apparently AI interaction will be so great 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,760 using mice and keyboards will be a foreign concept. 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,800 The world of sort of mousing around and keyboarding around and typing 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,320 will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to sort of use DOS. 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,000 That's according to Microsoft's corporate VP for enterprise and OS security. 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,400 David Weston, maybe better known as Dwizzle. The captioning AI spelled Dwizzle with three Zs, 11 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:49,000 but the AIs of the future won't make those kind of mistakes, hopefully. 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,960 Because apparently at that point we'll have already incinerated all the mice and keyboards. 13 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,840 Don't worry gamers, you won't miss using yours. In fact, you won't even have to play. 14 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:04,680 Just tell the AI to play for you. Xbox insiders can get a taste of this bright future today 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,360 with early access to Microsoft's Xbox co-pilot assistant 16 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:13,520 in the Windows 11 Xbox app. You can ask it things like, what am I looking at? 17 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,520 If you've always struggled to know a Kraken's tentacle 18 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,480 when you see one. One thing that may prompt me to ask an AI 19 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,280 what the I'm looking at are these limited edition Windows XP Crocs. 20 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,120 Microsoft is apparently making them to celebrate its 50th anniversary 21 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,120 by remembering when Windows was a real operating system 22 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:37,760 instead of an ad delivery service. They even come with a six pack of XP themed gibbets, 23 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,520 the little ornaments you can stick on the Crocs. And if you didn't know that, I'm sorry, 24 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:49,000 you are not cool or hip enough to wear these. And besides, Microsoft employees apparently get first dibbets. 25 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,960 It's been a wild week for AI. Google announced Genie 3, 26 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,440 their new frontier world model, which is what we're calling it 27 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,920 when AIs can hallucinate a nice blurry little lucid dream 28 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,880 for you to stroll around in. I don't want to be too harsh right off the bat though, 29 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,040 because Genie 3 is a massive improvement over Genie 2, 30 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:16,200 generating higher fidelity worlds for longer. And although users with early access can describe a scene 31 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,280 and then play through the world's worst video game, 32 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,480 the model now has world memory, which means environments stay consistent when you look away, 33 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:30,000 a never before seen innovation. Honestly though, we have not seen other models 34 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,360 with this level of quality, summon men in chicken suits, obnoxious jet skiers, 35 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:41,680 or oblivious dragons on the fly, or seamlessly transition out of a VO3 video 36 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,280 into a playable flight game. 37 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:48,880 They don't want to call them games because there's something more. 38 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,080 Take this exchange. A DeepMind researcher tweeted a video 39 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,080 of staff playing with Genie 3. Someone replied to say, 40 00:02:56,080 --> 00:03:00,360 oh, they thought this was like a video of people playing with Genie 3 41 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,000 that was generated by Genie 3. So wouldn't that be funny? 42 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,920 Oh, it can do that. 43 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,560 Whoa, this is fine. We're actually all gonna be fine probably. 44 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,000 Although it was enough to make this Twitter wonder whether this is evidence 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,600 for Talbot's holographic universe. 46 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:26,680 Better ask Grock. To Grock's credit, it does give a reasonable answer. 47 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,880 Like we're not peering into the fabric of reality here. 48 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,320 It's an AI video. It's not that deep. You can give the same prompt to chatGPT 49 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:40,760 and it very well might be like, hmm, maybe, totally could be a definite maybe. 50 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,360 Oh, you're so smart. I love you. Speaking of open AI, 51 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,600 they actually released their first open models 52 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,960 since GPT-2 six years ago. 53 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,440 They're a pair of open weight models that can be run on your laptop 54 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,680 and they're apparently pretty good. Although they're about to be eclipsed 55 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,920 by the release of GPT-5 probably on Tuesday 56 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,240 as evidenced by little clues like the company's head of applied research 57 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:10,280 tweeting this week that he's excited to see how the public receives GPT-5 58 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:15,840 and the main open AI account screaming, live stream Thursday, 10 a.m. 59 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:22,600 There was so much AI stuff you may have missed that Anthropic squeezed a little 0.1 onto Claude Opus-4 60 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:28,080 and that 11 Labs launched 11 music which generates AI music that's apparently cleared 61 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,680 for nearly all commercial uses. Okay, how's your head feeling? 62 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,080 Got room for quick bits in there? If you feel any pressure at all, just tell me 63 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,480 and I will actually not stop. I am compelled onwards. 64 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:46,440 US President Donald Trump took a break from winning his sixth golf championship in 2025 65 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:52,520 because he's as good at that as Elon is at Diablo to announce he'd impose a 100% tariff 66 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:56,920 on semiconductors made by companies that aren't building in the US. 67 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,400 TSMC is doing that, but Trump reportedly told them 68 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,560 that if they want the same 15% tariff as Japan and South Korea, 69 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:11,080 they'll have to buy half of Intel and invest another $400 billion in the US. 70 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:16,480 I mean, it's the least you could do, Taiwan, be reasonable. I mean, Apple just committed another $100 billion 71 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,880 to US manufacturing and Epic Games in the EU stole all their Apple taxes. 72 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,600 They're basically poor now. AMD has officially, but quietly, 73 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,440 announced the Radeon RX9060 non-XT 74 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,440 and that's appropriate because this is a fairly modest card. 75 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:38,280 Targeted at 1080p gaming with eight gigabytes of slower GDDR6 non-X memory, 76 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:44,200 it will only be available through system integrators. I mean, it doesn't even have an MSRP 77 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,920 because what would be the point? This is what GPU releases look like now, I guess. 78 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,680 Okay, moving on. Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty Black Ops 7 79 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,160 will both require TPM support and secure boots 80 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,360 to be enabled on Windows 10 and 11 PCs 81 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,120 in order for their anti-cheat solutions to work properly, 82 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,960 which will make sure there's no cheating and everyone plays by the rules just like real war. 83 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,080 Despite that though, more than 9,000 people were seen 84 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,160 queuing up for the upcoming Battlefield 6 beta. 85 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,520 That's almost as many players as there are currently playing Battlefield 2042. 86 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:24,520 IGN mistakenly wrote that it looks like EA may have a hit on its hands 87 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:30,200 when really they just have 9,000 people whose optimism has survived somehow, 88 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,160 EA's every attempt to destroy it. Hey, don't buy a pixel. 89 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,880 Right now, as Android Authority warns, there are new ones coming imminently on August 20th 90 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,320 and there's also the fact that besides the constant hardware issues 91 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:50,000 that seem to plague pixels perpetually, Google also just pulled refurbished Pixel 6As 92 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,280 from their store following an update meant to stop their batteries from exploding, 93 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:59,000 which seems to have been successful at least some of the time. 94 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,480 So don't buy a pixel right now, but do download the update that fixes the issues 95 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:08,880 with the back gestures. We don't think that should cause any explosions, 96 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:14,960 but we can't know. AI search company Perplexity actually has people defending it after Cloudflare 97 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:20,080 named and shamed the company earlier this week for trying to circumvent websites attempts 98 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:25,360 to block the company's webcrawlers. But in an official response, Perplexity points out 99 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:30,520 that websites are sometimes trying to block bots that are sent by an AI assistant 100 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,120 to retrieve an answer for a user. They're not trying to scrape the data for training 101 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,160 this time anyway. And the difference is important. 102 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:43,680 I mean, this is a moral issue about who gets to access information on the open web. 103 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:49,720 Ah, geez, don't start with, what are we discriminating against these poor bots now? 104 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:54,720 Or against tools like Google's AI Overviews which the tech giant says 105 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:59,640 is not killing click-through traffic to websites. No, they didn't provide any data 106 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,920 to refute the growing pile of research that says the opposite. 107 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:10,440 I mean, searches are up. Sure, no one's clicking anything, but searches are up. 108 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:15,960 And NVIDIA has come out strongly against the idea of putting backdoors or kill switches or spyware 109 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,200 in their GPUs. Company representatives recently got summoned 110 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,360 to testify in China after US lawmakers 111 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,880 proposed requiring such backdoors. And so NVIDIA wants to be clear. 112 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:32,720 They would always oppose backdoors. And especially the ones they'd be legally barred 113 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,640 from telling you about. Meanwhile, I'm not legally barred from saying 114 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,400 thanks for watching. No one has any say on whether I can say that. 115 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:45,400 And it feels good, but not as good as it would feel if you came back on Friday for more tech news. 116 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:51,200 I won't actually be here on Friday or on Monday, but listen, Adam and Elijah are writing. 117 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,200 And when we talked about it today, they had some twinkles in their eyes. 118 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,960 So I think it's gonna be good, okay? All right, okay, be back soon.