WEBVTT 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? 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:08.800 Like there is a faint chance that I could give you too much tech news 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.640 and your head might explode from knowledge. 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, 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:21.680 when apparently AI interaction will be so great 00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:24.760 using mice and keyboards will be a foreign concept. 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.800 The world of sort of mousing around and keyboarding around and typing 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:32.320 will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to sort of use DOS. 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:37.000 That's according to Microsoft's corporate VP for enterprise and OS security. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:44.400 David Weston, maybe better known as Dwizzle. The captioning AI spelled Dwizzle with three Zs, 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:49.000 but the AIs of the future won't make those kind of mistakes, hopefully. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.960 Because apparently at that point we'll have already incinerated all the mice and keyboards. 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. 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 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:08.360 with early access to Microsoft's Xbox co-pilot assistant 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? 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:16.520 If you've always struggled to know a Kraken's tentacle 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:20.480 when you see one. One thing that may prompt me to ask an AI 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:25.280 what the I'm looking at are these limited edition Windows XP Crocs. 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:29.120 Microsoft is apparently making them to celebrate its 50th anniversary 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:32.120 by remembering when Windows was a real operating system 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, 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, 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. 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:54.960 It's been a wild week for AI. Google announced Genie 3, 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.440 their new frontier world model, which is what we're calling it 00:01:58.440 --> 00:02:01.920 when AIs can hallucinate a nice blurry little lucid dream 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, 00:02:05.880 --> 00:02:10.040 because Genie 3 is a massive improvement over Genie 2, 00:02:10.040 --> 00:02:16.200 generating higher fidelity worlds for longer. And although users with early access can describe a scene 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:19.280 and then play through the world's worst video game, 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:25.480 the model now has world memory, which means environments stay consistent when you look away, 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:30.000 a never before seen innovation. Honestly though, we have not seen other models 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:35.360 with this level of quality, summon men in chicken suits, obnoxious jet skiers, 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:41.680 or oblivious dragons on the fly, or seamlessly transition out of a VO3 video 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.280 into a playable flight game. 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:48.880 They don't want to call them games because there's something more. 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:52.080 Take this exchange. A DeepMind researcher tweeted a video 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:56.080 of staff playing with Genie 3. Someone replied to say, 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:00.360 oh, they thought this was like a video of people playing with Genie 3 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:05.000 that was generated by Genie 3. So wouldn't that be funny? 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:06.920 Oh, it can do that. 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:12.560 Whoa, this is fine. We're actually all gonna be fine probably. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:17.000 Although it was enough to make this Twitter wonder whether this is evidence 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.600 for Talbot's holographic universe. 00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:26.680 Better ask Grock. To Grock's credit, it does give a reasonable answer. 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.880 Like we're not peering into the fabric of reality here. 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 00:03:34.320 --> 00:03:40.760 and it very well might be like, hmm, maybe, totally could be a definite maybe. 00:03:40.760 --> 00:03:44.360 Oh, you're so smart. I love you. Speaking of open AI, 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.600 they actually released their first open models 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:50.960 since GPT-2 six years ago. 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:54.440 They're a pair of open weight models that can be run on your laptop 00:03:54.440 --> 00:03:57.680 and they're apparently pretty good. Although they're about to be eclipsed 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:01.920 by the release of GPT-5 probably on Tuesday 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:06.240 as evidenced by little clues like the company's head of applied research 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:10.280 tweeting this week that he's excited to see how the public receives GPT-5 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:15.840 and the main open AI account screaming, live stream Thursday, 10 a.m. 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 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:28.080 and that 11 Labs launched 11 music which generates AI music that's apparently cleared 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:31.680 for nearly all commercial uses. Okay, how's your head feeling? 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 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:40.480 and I will actually not stop. I am compelled onwards. 00:04:40.520 --> 00:04:46.440 US President Donald Trump took a break from winning his sixth golf championship in 2025 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 00:04:52.520 --> 00:04:56.920 on semiconductors made by companies that aren't building in the US. 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.400 TSMC is doing that, but Trump reportedly told them 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:04.560 that if they want the same 15% tariff as Japan and South Korea, 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:11.080 they'll have to buy half of Intel and invest another $400 billion in the US. 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 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:20.880 to US manufacturing and Epic Games in the EU stole all their Apple taxes. 00:05:20.880 --> 00:05:24.600 They're basically poor now. AMD has officially, but quietly, 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:28.440 announced the Radeon RX9060 non-XT 00:05:28.440 --> 00:05:32.440 and that's appropriate because this is a fairly modest card. 00:05:32.440 --> 00:05:38.280 Targeted at 1080p gaming with eight gigabytes of slower GDDR6 non-X memory, 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 00:05:44.200 --> 00:05:48.920 because what would be the point? This is what GPU releases look like now, I guess. 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.680 Okay, moving on. Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty Black Ops 7 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:56.160 will both require TPM support and secure boots 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.360 to be enabled on Windows 10 and 11 PCs 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:03.120 in order for their anti-cheat solutions to work properly, 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. 00:06:08.960 --> 00:06:12.080 Despite that though, more than 9,000 people were seen 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:15.160 queuing up for the upcoming Battlefield 6 beta. 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:19.520 That's almost as many players as there are currently playing Battlefield 2042. 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:24.520 IGN mistakenly wrote that it looks like EA may have a hit on its hands 00:06:24.520 --> 00:06:30.200 when really they just have 9,000 people whose optimism has survived somehow, 00:06:30.200 --> 00:06:34.160 EA's every attempt to destroy it. Hey, don't buy a pixel. 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.880 Right now, as Android Authority warns, there are new ones coming imminently on August 20th 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:43.320 and there's also the fact that besides the constant hardware issues 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:50.000 that seem to plague pixels perpetually, Google also just pulled refurbished Pixel 6As 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:54.280 from their store following an update meant to stop their batteries from exploding, 00:06:54.280 --> 00:06:59.000 which seems to have been successful at least some of the time. 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 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:08.880 with the back gestures. We don't think that should cause any explosions, 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:14.960 but we can't know. AI search company Perplexity actually has people defending it after Cloudflare 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:20.080 named and shamed the company earlier this week for trying to circumvent websites attempts 00:07:20.080 --> 00:07:25.360 to block the company's webcrawlers. But in an official response, Perplexity points out 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:30.520 that websites are sometimes trying to block bots that are sent by an AI assistant 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 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:38.160 this time anyway. And the difference is important. 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. 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:49.720 Ah, geez, don't start with, what are we discriminating against these poor bots now? 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:54.720 Or against tools like Google's AI Overviews which the tech giant says 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:59.640 is not killing click-through traffic to websites. No, they didn't provide any data 00:07:59.640 --> 00:08:02.920 to refute the growing pile of research that says the opposite. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:10.440 I mean, searches are up. Sure, no one's clicking anything, but searches are up. 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 00:08:15.960 --> 00:08:19.200 in their GPUs. Company representatives recently got summoned 00:08:19.200 --> 00:08:22.360 to testify in China after US lawmakers 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.880 proposed requiring such backdoors. And so NVIDIA wants to be clear. 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:32.720 They would always oppose backdoors. And especially the ones they'd be legally barred 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:36.640 from telling you about. Meanwhile, I'm not legally barred from saying 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:40.400 thanks for watching. No one has any say on whether I can say that. 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. 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. 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:54.200 And when we talked about it today, they had some twinkles in their eyes. 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:57.960 So I think it's gonna be good, okay? All right, okay, be back soon.