WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 Full Computex, Google I.O, Microsoft Build, 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 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 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:17.080 and magic smoke. Let's start with the biggest news out of Computex, 00:00:17.080 --> 00:00:20.680 new GPUs, AMD finally officially revealed 00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:24.560 the RX9060XT will launch on June 5th 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:30.280 with an eight Gigabyte variant for 300 USD and a 16 Gigabyte version for 350. 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:33.320 That places the 16 gig one quite favorably 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:38.320 compared to NVIDIA's $380 RTX 5060 Ti 8 Gigabyte. 00:00:38.680 --> 00:00:43.900 I just hope AMD isn't lying about it having 15% more gaming performance per dollar 00:00:43.900 --> 00:00:48.160 because CEO Lisa Sue is a doctor and that would be medical malpractice. 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:54.400 AMD also announced new professional Threadripper 9000 series CPUs with up to 96 cores 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:58.280 and a Radeon AI Pro R9700 GPU 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.660 with 32 gigabytes of VRAM, VRAM that is. 00:01:02.660 --> 00:01:05.800 Let's hope AMD provides drivers for their new GPUs 00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:10.800 ahead of time so reviewers can do their job, which, you know, is normally what happens, 00:01:10.800 --> 00:01:15.840 but you never know in these wacky times when, according to myriad tech reviewers, 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.720 NVIDIA only allowed some outlets to publish previews 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:23.420 ahead of the RTX 5060's launch on Monday 00:01:23.460 --> 00:01:28.100 under strict conditions, including being limited to testing certain games 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:31.940 and capping every email back to NVIDIA with Hale Jensen. 00:01:31.940 --> 00:01:37.060 Despite being at Computex, once the public drivers dropped hardware unboxed, 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 00:01:43.180 --> 00:01:46.580 and some other proper reviews are starting to trickle out as well, 00:01:46.580 --> 00:01:51.580 which actually they don't make the $300 card look too bad 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 00:01:57.180 --> 00:02:01.260 and MSRP is a social construct with no inherent meeting, 00:02:01.260 --> 00:02:06.380 just like the concept of outside. Meanwhile, Intel didn't reveal more gaming cards, 00:02:06.380 --> 00:02:10.340 instead unveiling the ARC Pro B50 and B60 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:13.860 at around $300 and $500, respectively. 00:02:13.860 --> 00:02:18.540 That's a ballpark because they'll only be available inside pre-built workstations 00:02:18.540 --> 00:02:25.100 in a variety of fun third-party designs, like the dual GPU version from Max Sun. 00:02:25.100 --> 00:02:29.140 So cool. What's even cooler though is Intel's name 00:02:29.140 --> 00:02:33.940 for their new multi-GPU feature, Project Battle Matrix. 00:02:33.940 --> 00:02:39.580 Just fuck yeah. It'll allow up to eight ARC Pro GPUs to link together 00:02:39.580 --> 00:02:44.020 to make up to 192 gigabytes of pooled VRAM available 00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:47.600 for AI workloads. On paper, that's actually more capable 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:52.820 than an NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000, which would still be much more expensive. 00:02:52.820 --> 00:02:56.300 So watch out NVIDIA, you're going down any day now. 00:02:56.300 --> 00:02:59.300 I feel it. Now it's Google's turn on the mic, 00:02:59.300 --> 00:03:02.660 which is an appropriate thing to say, because at their IO conference, 00:03:02.660 --> 00:03:05.940 the tech giants showed off another existential crisis 00:03:05.940 --> 00:03:10.700 generator, I mean AI video generator. Their newest model, VO3, 00:03:10.700 --> 00:03:14.160 can generate photorealistic video and sound effects 00:03:14.160 --> 00:03:18.000 and lip synced spoken dialogue from a single prompt. 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:23.220 I am an idiot sandwich. 00:03:23.220 --> 00:03:27.820 I'm not sure I can go on. 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 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:36.200 with Google's synth ID. Now that might make it easier 00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:39.280 to identify non-consensual intimate images, 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.280 including deep fakes, which were just made illegal 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:47.000 with the passing of the take it down act, a seemingly well-intentioned law 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:51.080 that privacy groups are concerned could be used for censorship. 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 00:03:56.920 --> 00:04:00.800 or in the new Google Flow AI video editing tool 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.980 for subscribers to Google AI Ultra, 00:04:03.980 --> 00:04:08.000 a brand new all-you-can-slop $250 plan 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.360 that also has YouTube premium in there, just for fun. 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.080 Google did their usual thing where they mixed together a whack ton of announcements 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:18.560 for things you can try now, along with things that exist 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:22.800 in a liminal non-real dimension known as the coming months. 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:26.880 So here's the stuff that's available now-ish. For AI subscribers, 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:32.800 Gemini is finally getting baked into Chrome and Gemini is going to start adapting its responses 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:37.920 using your personal context, just like Apple said Siri would do 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.960 before they scrubbed most of their online references to it. 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:45.360 Google said this will allow you to generate more personalized replies in Gmail 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:48.840 so you can be a better friend who tricks your loved ones 00:04:48.840 --> 00:04:53.040 into thinking you took the time to write a reply when you didn't. 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:58.280 They look so dumb right now. This is friendship. Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing 00:04:58.280 --> 00:05:01.360 is now available for everyone, which is cool, 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. 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:11.540 That's good, keep it contained. A beta for real-time speech translation 00:05:11.540 --> 00:05:16.100 is available in Google Meet and developers are getting new coding agents and tools, 00:05:16.100 --> 00:05:22.540 including jewels, stitch, and the very literally named Gemini Code Assist. 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 00:05:28.420 --> 00:05:31.860 with support for Anthropics model context protocol, 00:05:31.860 --> 00:05:35.580 which is catching on as a kind of USBC of AI, 00:05:35.580 --> 00:05:38.980 allowing models and systems to speak politely with each other, 00:05:38.980 --> 00:05:42.220 helping Google's AI ultra-exclusive project, 00:05:42.220 --> 00:05:46.260 Mariner, computer use agent, use computers, 00:05:46.260 --> 00:05:49.700 which it needs to do. Now, for the coming later stuff, 00:05:49.700 --> 00:05:53.860 when Mariner is less experimental, it'll roll out more widely in the Gemini app 00:05:53.860 --> 00:05:56.960 as agent mode, not to be confused, 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:00.900 with AI mode in search, which will be updated with a lighter version 00:06:00.900 --> 00:06:05.020 of deep research called Deep Search and also with Search Live, 00:06:05.020 --> 00:06:08.700 which is just Gemini Live, but in search. I swear they are trying to annoy us. 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. 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 00:06:16.820 --> 00:06:21.860 as the other person, known as Project Starline is now Google Beam 00:06:21.860 --> 00:06:26.300 and will be rolling out in some form later this year. And also Google confirmed 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:30.220 they're working on an enhanced desktop mode in Android 16, 00:06:30.220 --> 00:06:33.620 which still makes me happy, despite Android desktop modes 00:06:33.620 --> 00:06:35.620 never really working out for anyone. 00:06:36.620 --> 00:06:40.860 But it might work for us, just like our sponsor. 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. 00:06:47.220 --> 00:06:51.580 At their build dev conference, Microsoft also announced a whack ton of stuff, 00:06:51.580 --> 00:06:56.020 but thankfully most of it is too niche and I could safely skip some of it, 00:06:56.020 --> 00:06:59.580 except for Windows 11 getting MCP support, 00:06:59.580 --> 00:07:05.340 which will make it much easier to let AI assistants actually control your PC. 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, 00:07:12.260 --> 00:07:16.460 which will make it easier for AIs and websites to all talk to each other. 00:07:16.460 --> 00:07:20.980 It's described as kind of the HTML for the agentic web, 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. 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:30.880 And see, I probably could have skipped that too. It's really niche. 00:07:30.880 --> 00:07:36.340 Linux people, yes it is. I can't believe this story is way down here, 00:07:36.340 --> 00:07:40.820 but Fortnite is back on the iOS app store in the US 00:07:40.820 --> 00:07:44.780 with support for external payment options with no Apple fees. 00:07:44.780 --> 00:07:48.700 This is crazy. Five years after intentionally getting kicked off 00:07:48.700 --> 00:07:55.800 the app store and suing Apple over it, Epic Games actually won for now. 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:59.300 Although it seems like this might stick just because everyone's just fed up with Apple 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 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. 00:08:10.300 --> 00:08:15.300 And when the judge saw it, she was like, no, do it now, you turds. 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, 00:08:20.180 --> 00:08:24.020 about three years ago, I'm just saying. We've seen laptop tablet things 00:08:24.020 --> 00:08:28.380 with one big foldable display before, but Huawei's looks real fancy. 00:08:28.420 --> 00:08:34.380 The MateBook Fold Ultimate Design is a 13 inch foldable tablet that when unfolded 00:08:34.380 --> 00:08:39.300 is just 7.3 millimeters thick, thinner than an iPhone 16. 00:08:39.300 --> 00:08:43.420 It runs Huawei's Harmony OS and is only available in China for the equivalent 00:08:43.420 --> 00:08:46.740 of $3,300, but I just like knowing it's out there. 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 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. 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, 00:09:03.140 --> 00:09:06.380 cooling these sweaty hands of many a thankful gamer, 00:09:06.380 --> 00:09:10.340 but it is the first one with a fan, the color of old hospital walls. 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? 00:09:14.980 --> 00:09:19.140 Was that too rude to Noctua? I don't, there's a ton of Computex stuff, 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 00:09:23.300 --> 00:09:27.060 and then come watch my show. It's a reasonable request.