1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,200 Ah, I have so much tech news to give you, but I don't know if you're ready. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:14,360 Some of it may unsettle you, cause you some discomfort might make you feel a little bit 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:21,360 woozy. Intel is reportedly working to finalize commitments from NVIDIA to have Team Blue's Foundry 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:27,760 division manufacture Team Green's Gaming GPUs, an eerily perfect setup for the tech 5 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,160 industry version of the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones. 6 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,400 And Team Red isn't even involved. Intel, no get out of there! 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:39,760 The news comes from industry analyst Timothy Arcuri, who wrote in a note to investors 8 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:45,840 that securing foundry customers like NVIDIA, or less likely Broadcom, is a major goal of 9 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:53,880 the company's new CEO, Litbu Tan. Even if NVIDIA doesn't love the idea of having their chips made by a competitor in the gaming 10 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:59,880 GPU market to be extremely charitable towards Intel, the deal could make sense if only to 11 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:05,520 avoid the tariffs US President Trump may still place on chips made by NVIDIA's existing 12 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:12,800 partner TSMC. And who knows, maybe Intel could help NVIDIA stock more than like four graphics cards 13 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:21,560 at each retailer. Scalping and supply issues are part of why AMD sold 10 times more RX9070 XTs in the first 14 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:28,520 week than its predecessors. Or at least, that's what CEO Dr. Lisa Su said in an interview with ASUS China. 15 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:33,800 I gotta say, I did not have Radeon graphics cards are dominating the market, so NVIDIA 16 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:39,040 and Intel have to team up to take them down on my 2025 bingo card. 17 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,240 Because I don't have a bingo card at all. That's gambling. 18 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:47,120 Lots of notable AI developments this week, with the arrival of new Gemini 2.5 thinking 19 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:52,120 models from Google DeepMind that the company says are mighty powerful, by which they mean 20 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,840 they're just slightly better on some common benchmarks. 21 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,640 But a new benchmark could show that all the AI suck. 22 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:07,560 Hold on, that's for the end of the story. OpenAI finally rolled out native image generation for ChatGPT's 4.0 model, meaning it no longer 23 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:15,080 needs to use Dali for that. The update has made ChatGPT shockingly good at reproducing text in generated images while 24 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,520 maintaining the consistency of characters and environments through multiple iterations. 25 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:24,680 It's a feature that OpenAI has apparently been holding onto since 4.0 was unveiled nearly 26 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:30,760 a year ago. I guess they decided to wait until two weeks after Google launched the same thing in Gemini. 27 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,960 Ba-doom, gotcha. Notably, guardrails for these image generators have been loosened. 28 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:42,320 OpenAI's system card for GPT-4.0 says they're not blocking the capability to generate public 29 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:50,480 figures as long as their adults. And public figures who wish for their depiction not to be generated can opt out. 30 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,680 I didn't see how in the document. 31 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:02,040 I guess try DMing Sam. Guess what, there's more. NVIDIA is now rolling out Project Geassist, its AI assistant that can run locally on your 32 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:07,600 GPU and is apparently named after the company's fake AI assistant from their April Fool's 33 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:13,600 joke in 2017. Eight years from parody to reality, is this normal? 34 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,880 The real Geassist won't play games for you, but in addition to giving gaming tips, it 35 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:24,520 can actually control third-party accessories like wall lights and even change some of your 36 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:30,000 PC settings if you ask it to, instead of just telling you that you can open the settings 37 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,240 app and find and enable dark mode. 38 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,880 And how did NVIDIA make a more useful AI assistant for Windows PCs than Microsoft? 39 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:43,680 Meanwhile, chatbot service character.ai, which is very popular among teens, as evidenced 40 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:49,000 by all those uplifting articles about the things it's done, has announced a new parental 41 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,800 insights feature which lets users under 18 send a weekly activity report to their parent 42 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,880 or guardian if they want to. 43 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:04,120 Uh, it's parental controls for the good kids that don't need them. 44 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:09,160 Now in case you're worried that AI is getting too smart, too fast, there's a new benchmark, 45 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:15,360 ARC-AGI2, which requires fluid intelligence to complete novel tasks instead of testing 46 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:20,640 AI's on their ability to solve problems that are probably in their training data somewhere. 47 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:26,120 And nearly every model is horrible at this new test, so we should have some time left 48 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:31,240 before we all feel the AGI in the form of robot feet on our neck. 49 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,240 Did that news disquiet, disturb, or perturb you? 50 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:42,080 I'm sorry, these quick bits should feel much better entering your ocular and auditory orifices. 51 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:52,680 Why did I say it like that? ASRock has published a slightly confusing update after investigating issues experienced 52 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,960 by some owners of the company's motherboards, while ASRock acknowledged some of its BIOS 53 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:04,120 versions caused boot issues with, quote, random 9000 series CPUs. 54 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:11,360 They say their new BIOS 3.20 fixes that issue, and it's not related to the other issue that 55 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,520 caused burn damage on the CPU socket. 56 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:19,600 They didn't exactly say what could have caused multiple users to report burnt CPUs and pins 57 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:26,040 on the motherboard, but implied it was caused by debris in the socket, which they removed 58 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:32,920 leading to the system passing long-term stress tests, so there was just some, you know, stuff. 59 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,480 Unfortunately for ASRock, many are still calling for further investigation as 60 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,800 there was something in there, isn't it? Is a less than satisfying answer. 61 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,480 What was it? Well, I have some variety of gunk. 62 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:51,560 Some promising Windows 11 features have popped up in a new preview build, including a controller-friendly 63 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:59,000 keyboard and, more importantly, an improved Windows search, which will only be available 64 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,400 on co-pilot plus PCs, because I guess Microsoft needed advanced neural networks to make search 65 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:13,320 almost as useful as it was in Windows 7. Apple has once again been barred from participating in Google's upcoming antitrust hearing after 66 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:18,120 an appeals court denied the tech giant's motion to testify about how much it would 67 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,200 suck for them to lose the $20 billion Google pays them every year to be Safari's default 68 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:28,120 search engine. This is so sad. They just want to be together for the hearing and conduct shady deals. 69 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:34,520 I ship them. Canada has banned Tesla from receiving any federal electric vehicle rebates in the future 70 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:42,200 weeks after the company filed for $43.1 million in rebates, claiming that four of its Canadian 71 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,240 stores had sold 8,653 vehicles in three days. 72 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,280 That would be 120 EVs per hour. 73 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:57,240 The sales all happened the weekend before a previously announced pause in the EV rebates 74 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,120 program, so I can understand why all those Canadians rushed to get one before the deadline. 75 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:07,960 And a company called Gravidx has been awarded funding by the US Space Force to develop what 76 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,080 is essentially an aircraft carrier in space. 77 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:18,680 Awesomely referred to as an orbital carrier, the craft would actually hold, maintain, and release 78 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:23,000 satellites into orbit, which would save on having to launch them from Earth. 79 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:29,480 However, the company didn't say they wouldn't also be used eventually for transporting squadrons 80 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,080 of starfighters, so I'm considering that a feature that's coming later on. 81 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,920 Also arriving later, more tech news on Friday specifically because that's when tech news 82 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:42,600 happens next, because that's when I make the tech news happen. 83 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:45,720 I think that's how it works.