WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.520 The phrase green bubbles used to make me think of the beer some people add green food coloring to 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:10.560 on St. Patrick's Day and I don't know why because I don't think he would have stood for that. 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:17.360 Apple has finally added support for rich communication services or RCS to the iOS 18 beta 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:22.560 allowing both iPhone and Android users the opportunity to experience what it's like to 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:28.640 receive a photo that doesn't look like it was taken on a palm pilot. Yep, iMessage now graciously 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:34.560 lets both types of users send high-quality media, start group chats, see typing indicators, and 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:41.600 even read receipts. What it doesn't do is change Android messages from green to blue. So no, Gizmodo, 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:47.360 the green bubble nightmare is not over. Although now it is more like a fever dream. 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:52.960 Need to go to the hospital. While this is arguably one of the most impactful feature drops announced 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:58.880 at WWDC, Apple dedicated a single sentence to it in the press release mentioning a better 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:05.040 experience when messaging contacts who do not have an Apple device. You may know them by their 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:11.040 other name, most people. Now this is a beta so there are some quirks. For example, RCS isn't yet 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:17.200 supported if your iPhone is on an MVNO network like Google Fi. But can you blame Google for not 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:20.880 having this ready on their own network? They've been texting Apple to see if they want to come 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:27.920 over for years and then suddenly they show up at the door? How did it get so messy? One second. 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:35.760 YouTube has begun rolling out new features for premium users, including the jump ahead button 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:41.840 after a limited testing phase. Premium subscribers on Android in the US will see the button when 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:46.720 double tapping to skip forward in a video. YouTube says instead of doing that manually, 00:01:46.720 --> 00:01:51.840 you can just tap the button and it'll take you right where you want to go. What's that? 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:57.600 How does the button know where you want to go? What are you, a free thinking individual with 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:02.880 your own preferences and opinions? Get out of here. YouTube's also bringing back its conversational AI 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:07.120 for premium users, which can answer questions about the content of a video like, 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:11.680 Hey, conversational AI, what was in that part that I skipped over? Ah, you weren't looking for 00:02:11.920 --> 00:02:17.120 that. Don't worry about it. The YouTube app also now supports viewing shorts in picture in picture 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.800 mode for subway surfers fans and apparently more types of YouTube premium plans are on the way 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.160 with new ways to share your benefits with friends who don't have an AI to tell them the only parts 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:35.040 of a video that are worth watching. Those poor people. The CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleiman, 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:41.200 went a bit viral this week for calling web content freeware that AI companies are totally 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:47.200 fine to train their AI models on under the social contract of fair use that has been standard 00:02:47.200 --> 00:02:53.520 since the nineties. And while calling what is in many cases copyrighted works, freeware 00:02:54.240 --> 00:03:00.400 seems bad. His core argument there is defendable and really nothing new. That's how all the big 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:07.680 LLMs have been trained. But he also called it a gray area when websites explicitly tell web 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:14.000 crawlers not to scrape their sites for content. A quote I could easily work into a joke about consent, 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:20.800 but I won't because I told myself no. Suleiman said the gray stuff will work its way through 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:26.640 the courts. And he's right. The nonprofit behind Mother Jones and the reveal radio show, 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:32.720 the center for investigative reporting just sued Microsoft and open AI for copyright violations. 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:39.200 The same day open AI added Time Magazine to the list of outlets it's formed content partnerships 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:44.560 with. An acknowledgement of the grayness of the copyright question. But as for AI search company 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:50.560 Perplexity, well, given their recent plagiarism scandals, it seems like they don't care as much 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:55.760 which shade of gray the chips land on, which kind of tracks with the fact that its CEO told 00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:00.640 Lex Friedman his company got its start by making fake academic accounts so they could 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:05.440 scrape Twitter's data to use in their product. I think it's well past time a trustworthy, 00:04:05.440 --> 00:04:10.800 morally upstanding entity investigated these guys. Amazon. They'll let us know whether 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:16.320 Perplexity staff have access to enough fabric lined weeping booths. There aren't merely enough 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:19.360 people here peeing in bottles. You need to do something about this. Okay, now you're gonna 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.920 want to get in a more stable stance for when these quick bits come through, okay? And when they hit 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:29.520 shit, don't don't push back. Just let them go because you do not want to make these things angry. 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:34.080 Due to a glitch with Apple Pay, many Hungarian iPhone users found themselves 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:39.280 getting mistakenly charged for payments they never made. Thankfully, it seems that affected 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:44.400 customers will be reimbursed in the coming week. While typically these charges were only small 00:04:44.400 --> 00:04:49.120 amounts, some users found themselves getting charged several times in a row, with one user 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:55.680 getting charged for nearly $1,500 across 74 transactions in the space of five minutes 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:00.240 before the bank blocked any further withdrawals. It's like your bank account deciding on your 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:05.920 behalf that you deserve a little treat. A little treat. A little treat. Oh, I see. 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:12.320 Intel has shown off a prototype optical interconnect chip that could allow server 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:18.080 processors to support up to four terabits per second interlinks. Interlinked. Interlinked, 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:22.800 sorry. It's still early days for the prototype, but Intel is apparently working with select 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:28.480 customers on incorporating it into SoC designs. Thomas Lielberg, a director on the project, 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:34.480 said that server needs are straining the capabilities of electrical IO designs, and that 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:39.920 servers also look super, super boring right now, so we need to get some laser action in their stat. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:46.400 Oh no, servers are getting boring? Somebody play Sandstorm. OpenAI has announced a new AI model 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:52.160 intended to critique Chachi BT and help human trainers spot errors in its output. 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:57.840 They called it CriticGPT, so don't worry AI skeptics, AI can now do your job too. 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:04.240 The same day Google announced a partnership with Data Services giant Moody's, which should 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:10.080 help Google's enterprise customers to create AI chatbots grounded in facts instead of what they 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:16.640 were previously grounded in, 4chan green text stories. I for one celebrate our AI overlords 00:06:16.640 --> 00:06:22.480 attempts to not blatantly make s**t up. The FCC has been inundated with complaints against 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:27.600 T-Mobile following the company's decision to raise prices for cellular customers to whom it 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:33.840 repeatedly and explicitly promised a lifetime price freeze. However, it turns out that in a 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:40.480 separate FAQ, the only real guarantee in the Uncarrier's Uncontract was to pay customers 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:46.720 final phone bill if they decided to cancel following their inevitable betrayal. It was 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:52.080 always a little fiscally dubious for T-Mobile to promise so many of its customers a lifetime 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:57.760 price freeze back in 2017, unless for some reason it thought that most of those customers were going 00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:02.480 to die in a terrible plague only a few years later. I'm just saying T-Mobile are psychic. 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:08.880 And a computer comprised of plastic cubes which can change its pattern to represent data 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:15.200 without using any electricity has been developed by researchers at North Carolina State University. 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:22.480 Why? I don't know, seems weird. The design was inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:28.880 which I can only describe as origami remastered. Binary ones and zeros are represented in the 00:07:28.880 --> 00:07:35.280 positions of the component cubes, which can be pushed up and down either manually or using magnets. 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:39.680 We've got a long way to go before we can use these to fight back against autonomous robot 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.240 dogs with guns, but hey, it's a good start. And even better start would be you coming back on 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:50.640 Monday for a talk linked episode I recorded with Jonathan Horst of Mac Address. We argue about 00:07:50.640 --> 00:07:53.680 Apple and the safety of motorcycles. Go check it out.