WEBVTT 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. 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 00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:21.360 woozy. Intel is reportedly working to finalize commitments from NVIDIA to have Team Blue's Foundry 00:00:21.360 --> 00:00:27.760 division manufacture Team Green's Gaming GPUs, an eerily perfect setup for the tech 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.160 industry version of the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones. 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:34.400 And Team Red isn't even involved. Intel, no get out of there! 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:39.760 The news comes from industry analyst Timothy Arcuri, who wrote in a note to investors 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:45.840 that securing foundry customers like NVIDIA, or less likely Broadcom, is a major goal of 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 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:59.880 GPU market to be extremely charitable towards Intel, the deal could make sense if only to 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:05.520 avoid the tariffs US President Trump may still place on chips made by NVIDIA's existing 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 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 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. 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:33.800 I gotta say, I did not have Radeon graphics cards are dominating the market, so NVIDIA 00:01:33.800 --> 00:01:39.040 and Intel have to team up to take them down on my 2025 bingo card. 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.240 Because I don't have a bingo card at all. That's gambling. 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:47.120 Lots of notable AI developments this week, with the arrival of new Gemini 2.5 thinking 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:52.120 models from Google DeepMind that the company says are mighty powerful, by which they mean 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.840 they're just slightly better on some common benchmarks. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.640 But a new benchmark could show that all the AI suck. 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 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 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.520 maintaining the consistency of characters and environments through multiple iterations. 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 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. 00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:35.960 Ba-doom, gotcha. Notably, guardrails for these image generators have been loosened. 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 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. 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:53.680 I didn't see how in the document. 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 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 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:13.600 joke in 2017. Eight years from parody to reality, is this normal? 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 00:03:18.880 --> 00:03:24.520 can actually control third-party accessories like wall lights and even change some of your 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 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.240 app and find and enable dark mode. 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:37.880 And how did NVIDIA make a more useful AI assistant for Windows PCs than Microsoft? 00:03:37.880 --> 00:03:43.680 Meanwhile, chatbot service character.ai, which is very popular among teens, as evidenced 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:49.000 by all those uplifting articles about the things it's done, has announced a new parental 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:55.800 insights feature which lets users under 18 send a weekly activity report to their parent 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:58.880 or guardian if they want to. 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:04.120 Uh, it's parental controls for the good kids that don't need them. 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, 00:04:09.160 --> 00:04:15.360 ARC-AGI2, which requires fluid intelligence to complete novel tasks instead of testing 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:20.640 AI's on their ability to solve problems that are probably in their training data somewhere. 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 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:31.240 before we all feel the AGI in the form of robot feet on our neck. 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:35.240 Did that news disquiet, disturb, or perturb you? 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:42.080 I'm sorry, these quick bits should feel much better entering your ocular and auditory orifices. 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 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:57.960 by some owners of the company's motherboards, while ASRock acknowledged some of its BIOS 00:04:57.960 --> 00:05:04.120 versions caused boot issues with, quote, random 9000 series CPUs. 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 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.520 caused burn damage on the CPU socket. 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 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:26.040 on the motherboard, but implied it was caused by debris in the socket, which they removed 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. 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:37.480 Unfortunately for ASRock, many are still calling for further investigation as 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:41.800 there was something in there, isn't it? Is a less than satisfying answer. 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.480 What was it? Well, I have some variety of gunk. 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 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:59.000 keyboard and, more importantly, an improved Windows search, which will only be available 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:05.400 on co-pilot plus PCs, because I guess Microsoft needed advanced neural networks to make search 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 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:18.120 an appeals court denied the tech giant's motion to testify about how much it would 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 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. 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 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 00:06:42.200 --> 00:06:47.240 stores had sold 8,653 vehicles in three days. 00:06:47.240 --> 00:06:50.280 That would be 120 EVs per hour. 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:57.240 The sales all happened the weekend before a previously announced pause in the EV rebates 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:02.120 program, so I can understand why all those Canadians rushed to get one before the deadline. 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 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:11.080 is essentially an aircraft carrier in space. 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:18.680 Awesomely referred to as an orbital carrier, the craft would actually hold, maintain, and release 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:23.000 satellites into orbit, which would save on having to launch them from Earth. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:29.480 However, the company didn't say they wouldn't also be used eventually for transporting squadrons 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:33.080 of starfighters, so I'm considering that a feature that's coming later on. 00:07:33.080 --> 00:07:38.920 Also arriving later, more tech news on Friday specifically because that's when tech news 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.600 happens next, because that's when I make the tech news happen. 00:07:44.360 --> 00:07:45.720 I think that's how it works.