1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,600 Full Computex, Google I.O, Microsoft Build, 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:08,360 somehow even more stuff, you know, it's a good thing I had a nice relaxing long weekend 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:13,880 because it turns out what I was coming back to is tech news, hell, there's gnashing of teeth 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,080 and magic smoke. Let's start with the biggest news out of Computex, 5 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:20,680 new GPUs, AMD finally officially revealed 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:24,560 the RX9060XT will launch on June 5th 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:30,280 with an eight Gigabyte variant for 300 USD and a 16 Gigabyte version for 350. 8 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:33,320 That places the 16 gig one quite favorably 9 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:38,320 compared to NVIDIA's $380 RTX 5060 Ti 8 Gigabyte. 10 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:43,900 I just hope AMD isn't lying about it having 15% more gaming performance per dollar 11 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:48,160 because CEO Lisa Sue is a doctor and that would be medical malpractice. 12 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:54,400 AMD also announced new professional Threadripper 9000 series CPUs with up to 96 cores 13 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,280 and a Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU 14 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,660 with 32 gigabytes of VRAM, VRAM that is. 15 00:01:02,660 --> 00:01:05,800 Let's hope AMD provides drivers for their new GPUs 16 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:10,800 ahead of time so reviewers can do their job, which, you know, is normally what happens, 17 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:15,840 but you never know in these wacky times when, according to myriad tech reviewers, 18 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:19,720 NVIDIA only allowed some outlets to publish previews 19 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,420 ahead of the RTX 5060's launch on Monday 20 00:01:23,460 --> 00:01:28,100 under strict conditions, including being limited to testing certain games 21 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:31,940 and capping every email back to NVIDIA with Hale Jensen. 22 00:01:31,940 --> 00:01:37,060 Despite being at Computex, once the public drivers dropped hardware unboxed, 23 00:01:37,060 --> 00:01:43,180 stayed up through the night like champions to test the 5060 with some loaned parts from MSI 24 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:46,580 and some other proper reviews are starting to trickle out as well, 25 00:01:46,580 --> 00:01:51,580 which actually they don't make the $300 card look too bad 26 00:01:52,380 --> 00:01:57,180 in terms of price to performance, although the eight gigs of VRAM trips it up in places 27 00:01:57,180 --> 00:02:01,260 and MSRP is a social construct with no inherent meeting, 28 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:06,380 just like the concept of outside. Meanwhile, Intel didn't reveal more gaming cards, 29 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:10,340 instead unveiling the ARC Pro B50 and B60 30 00:02:10,340 --> 00:02:13,860 at around $300 and $500, respectively. 31 00:02:13,860 --> 00:02:18,540 That's a ballpark because they'll only be available inside pre-built workstations 32 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:25,100 in a variety of fun third-party designs, like the dual GPU version from Max Sun. 33 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:29,140 So cool. What's even cooler though is Intel's name 34 00:02:29,140 --> 00:02:33,940 for their new multi-GPU feature, Project Battle Matrix. 35 00:02:33,940 --> 00:02:39,580 Just fuck yeah. It'll allow up to eight ARC Pro GPUs to link together 36 00:02:39,580 --> 00:02:44,020 to make up to 192 gigabytes of pooled VRAM available 37 00:02:44,020 --> 00:02:47,600 for AI workloads. On paper, that's actually more capable 38 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,820 than an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000, which would still be much more expensive. 39 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:56,300 So watch out NVIDIA, you're going down any day now. 40 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:59,300 I feel it. Now it's Google's turn on the mic, 41 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:02,660 which is an appropriate thing to say, because at their IO conference, 42 00:03:02,660 --> 00:03:05,940 the tech giants showed off another existential crisis 43 00:03:05,940 --> 00:03:10,700 generator, I mean AI video generator. Their newest model, VO3, 44 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:14,160 can generate photorealistic video and sound effects 45 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,000 and lip synced spoken dialogue from a single prompt. 46 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,220 I am an idiot sandwich. 47 00:03:23,220 --> 00:03:27,820 I'm not sure I can go on. 48 00:03:27,820 --> 00:03:32,720 I am also not sure I can go on, but at least it's all marked right in the metadata 49 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,200 with Google's synth ID. Now that might make it easier 50 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,280 to identify non-consensual intimate images, 51 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,280 including deep fakes, which were just made illegal 52 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:47,000 with the passing of the take it down act, a seemingly well-intentioned law 53 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,080 that privacy groups are concerned could be used for censorship. 54 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:56,920 There's lots to talk about there, but there's no time. Google VO3 is available in the Gemini app 55 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,800 or in the new Google Flow AI video editing tool 56 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,980 for subscribers to Google AI Ultra, 57 00:04:03,980 --> 00:04:08,000 a brand new all-you-can-slop $250 plan 58 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,360 that also has YouTube premium in there, just for fun. 59 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:15,080 Google did their usual thing where they mixed together a whack ton of announcements 60 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,560 for things you can try now, along with things that exist 61 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,800 in a liminal non-real dimension known as the coming months. 62 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,880 So here's the stuff that's available now-ish. For AI subscribers, 63 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:32,800 Gemini is finally getting baked into Chrome and Gemini is going to start adapting its responses 64 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:37,920 using your personal context, just like Apple said Siri would do 65 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,960 before they scrubbed most of their online references to it. 66 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:45,360 Google said this will allow you to generate more personalized replies in Gmail 67 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,840 so you can be a better friend who tricks your loved ones 68 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:53,040 into thinking you took the time to write a reply when you didn't. 69 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,280 They look so dumb right now. This is friendship. Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing 70 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:01,360 is now available for everyone, which is cool, 71 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:07,120 while AI mode is getting a wider rollout to infect more search queries in the US only. 72 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:11,540 That's good, keep it contained. A beta for real-time speech translation 73 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:16,100 is available in Google Meet and developers are getting new coding agents and tools, 74 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:22,540 including jewels, stitch, and the very literally named Gemini Code Assist. 75 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:28,420 It didn't get a nickname, not cool enough yet. Google also updated the Gemini API and SDK 76 00:05:28,420 --> 00:05:31,860 with support for Anthropics model context protocol, 77 00:05:31,860 --> 00:05:35,580 which is catching on as a kind of USBC of AI, 78 00:05:35,580 --> 00:05:38,980 allowing models and systems to speak politely with each other, 79 00:05:38,980 --> 00:05:42,220 helping Google's AI ultra-exclusive project, 80 00:05:42,220 --> 00:05:46,260 Mariner, computer use agent, use computers, 81 00:05:46,260 --> 00:05:49,700 which it needs to do. Now, for the coming later stuff, 82 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:53,860 when Mariner is less experimental, it'll roll out more widely in the Gemini app 83 00:05:53,860 --> 00:05:56,960 as agent mode, not to be confused, 84 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,900 with AI mode in search, which will be updated with a lighter version 85 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:05,020 of deep research called Deep Search and also with Search Live, 86 00:06:05,020 --> 00:06:08,700 which is just Gemini Live, but in search. I swear they are trying to annoy us. 87 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:13,340 But look, let's not let them, okay? Because there are a couple actually cool things shown off. 88 00:06:13,340 --> 00:06:16,820 Google's hyper-realistic video call tech that makes it feel like you're in the same room 89 00:06:16,820 --> 00:06:21,860 as the other person, known as Project Starline is now Google Beam 90 00:06:21,860 --> 00:06:26,300 and will be rolling out in some form later this year. And also Google confirmed 91 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:30,220 they're working on an enhanced desktop mode in Android 16, 92 00:06:30,220 --> 00:06:33,620 which still makes me happy, despite Android desktop modes 93 00:06:33,620 --> 00:06:35,620 never really working out for anyone. 94 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:40,860 But it might work for us, just like our sponsor. 95 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:47,220 All right, you're not quite caught up in everything yet. There's still the quick bits, just hold on. 96 00:06:47,220 --> 00:06:51,580 At their build dev conference, Microsoft also announced a whack ton of stuff, 97 00:06:51,580 --> 00:06:56,020 but thankfully most of it is too niche and I could safely skip some of it, 98 00:06:56,020 --> 00:06:59,580 except for Windows 11 getting MCP support, 99 00:06:59,580 --> 00:07:05,340 which will make it much easier to let AI assistants actually control your PC. 100 00:07:05,340 --> 00:07:12,260 When you want them to, did they put that in the code? That seems important. MCP is also a big part of Microsoft's NL web initiative, 101 00:07:12,260 --> 00:07:16,460 which will make it easier for AIs and websites to all talk to each other. 102 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:20,980 It's described as kind of the HTML for the agentic web, 103 00:07:20,980 --> 00:07:27,860 which sounds like a spider-verse plot element. Also the Windows subsystem for Linux is now open source. 104 00:07:27,860 --> 00:07:30,880 And see, I probably could have skipped that too. It's really niche. 105 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:36,340 Linux people, yes it is. I can't believe this story is way down here, 106 00:07:36,340 --> 00:07:40,820 but Fortnite is back on the iOS app store in the US 107 00:07:40,820 --> 00:07:44,780 with support for external payment options with no Apple fees. 108 00:07:44,780 --> 00:07:48,700 This is crazy. Five years after intentionally getting kicked off 109 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:55,800 the app store and suing Apple over it, Epic Games actually won for now. 110 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,300 Although it seems like this might stick just because everyone's just fed up with Apple 111 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:04,460 at this point. In their letter to Epic last week, Cupertino said they were denying Epic's 112 00:08:04,460 --> 00:08:10,300 Fortnite app submission until after their request for a stay on the judge's order was reviewed. 113 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:15,300 And when the judge saw it, she was like, no, do it now, you turds. 114 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:20,180 If you're curious about the history of all of this, I made a big old tech longer video somewhere, 115 00:08:20,180 --> 00:08:24,020 about three years ago, I'm just saying. We've seen laptop tablet things 116 00:08:24,020 --> 00:08:28,380 with one big foldable display before, but Huawei's looks real fancy. 117 00:08:28,420 --> 00:08:34,380 The MateBook Fold Ultimate Design is a 13 inch foldable tablet that when unfolded 118 00:08:34,380 --> 00:08:39,300 is just 7.3 millimeters thick, thinner than an iPhone 16. 119 00:08:39,300 --> 00:08:43,420 It runs Huawei's Harmony OS and is only available in China for the equivalent 120 00:08:43,420 --> 00:08:46,740 of $3,300, but I just like knowing it's out there. 121 00:08:46,740 --> 00:08:53,500 And Noctua has teamed up with Pulsar to build a version of the second company's Feynman F01 122 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:57,780 with a built-in Noctua fan. It's a mouse, by the way, I probably should have said that. 123 00:08:57,820 --> 00:09:03,140 It's not the first mouse with a fan. The Marsback Zephyr Pro has been around for a few years, 124 00:09:03,140 --> 00:09:06,380 cooling these sweaty hands of many a thankful gamer, 125 00:09:06,380 --> 00:09:10,340 but it is the first one with a fan, the color of old hospital walls. 126 00:09:10,340 --> 00:09:14,980 I mean, how could you say no? And how could you say no to coming back for more tech news on Friday? 127 00:09:14,980 --> 00:09:19,140 Was that too rude to Noctua? I don't, there's a ton of Computex stuff, 128 00:09:19,140 --> 00:09:23,300 at least that we didn't cover today. So don't go online for a couple of days 129 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:27,060 and then come watch my show. It's a reasonable request.