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Tech news is like your fingers, something you can count on.

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But unlike fingers, tech news is far less vulnerable to firework accidents.

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Apple's upcoming AI features may not impress or surprise

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those already familiar with AI tech, according to Mark Gurman.

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The only surprise may be that the features

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won't be fully on device. In his most recent Power On newsletter,

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Gurman discusses how Apple is apparently focusing on tools

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that people may actually want to use, generally a good idea.

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A big part of this is Project Grey Matter, an AI toolkit that Apple will integrate

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into its core apps like Safari, Photos, and Notes.

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It's probably similar to Microsoft's Co-Pilot,

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but with the revolutionary idea of not overusing the name Co-Pilot.

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Many familiar AI-powered features will be introduced by the fruit fraternity, including photo retouching

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and suggested email replies and messages. Apple also wants to generate smart recaps

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that will summarize users' missed notifications, text messages, notes, and other media.

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But while it's really exciting that Apple is doing what everyone else has already done,

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Tim and the team are apparently also backsliding

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on their promise to keep users' data on their devices for privacy.

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This comes after the company has repeatedly criticized

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its competitors for not keeping user data on device only.

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But Apple has to add AI.

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I mean, it's not like any consumers actually want it, but because every other company's already doing it,

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and if they don't, Tim Cook is gonna look like a loser.

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Cinder Pichai and Sachin Adele are gonna give him a swirling.

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He's gonna have flashbacks, it sucks. AMD's next motherboard chipset will be skipping a number,

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according to Chinese outlet Bench Life. AMD's current flagship chipset is X670,

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but it appears the company's follow-up will be X870,

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not X770, because apparently no one cares about consistent numbering anymore,

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which is evidenced by the fact we don't have an iPhone or Windows 9.

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You can skip them when you want to, it's a free country. The name was initially leaked earlier this year

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by YouTuber Moore's Law Is Dead, who also claimed that the boards will be shown off

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at this year's Computex. This would make sense, since AMD is giving

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the opening keynote at the event, which the company promises will showcase their next generation

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of high-performance PC. The Computex debut may also be part

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of the reason for the naming change. It seems Intel will also be debuting new MOBOs

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at the event, specifically the Z890 motherboard.

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AMD doesn't want their number to be smaller than Team Blues, everyone will point and laugh.

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See the Tim Cook example. It's all rock locker rooms, hazing at this point.

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Swirlies all around. This follows countless examples of tech companies

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changing their naming scheme to compete with other naming schemes.

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Just last week, a leaker claimed that AMD renamed their upcoming mobile chips

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from Ryzen AI 100 to Ryzen AI 300

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to appear bigger than Intel's upcoming core Ultra 200 CPUs.

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Frankly, I'm tired of manufacturers trying to appeal to us size queens.

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Many of us actually prefer a smaller form factor.

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I'm just gonna say, J-Growth at, ah. Ah.

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Samsung is denying a report citing quality issues

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with its high bandwidth memory or HBM products.

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Last week, Reuters published a report claiming that Samsung's HBM chips failed NVIDIA's quality tests

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due to problems with heat and power consumption. Frankly, I'm just surprised NVIDIA has efficiency standards.

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I mean, this is a big deal because HBM is used mostly in AI applications

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to process the massive amount of data generated.

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Since NVIDIA holds about 80% of the global AI hardware market,

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it would be a massive hit to Samsung's reputation

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if this Reuters report is true. And it might be.

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Samsung said its newest HBM products work fine with many processors,

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but doesn't specifically say that those products work

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with NVIDIA's processors, leading to speculation that Samsung

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is simply trying to save face. That would be understandable

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since memory is the only Samsung silicon anyone really cares about.

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I mean, Google will apparently be moving manufacturing for the tensor chips found in Pixel phones

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from Samsung to TSMC. Like Samsung's HBM products,

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the tensor processors the company manufacturers have had issues with thermals and power efficiency.

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Wait a second. But hold on, easy solution for Samsung.

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Just stop making everything you manufacture run hotter than the cast of Baywatch.

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So easy and simple, you should do it. Hey, I had some extra news lying around,

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so I made you these quick bits. Yeah, okay, so go on.

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Take them. ASUS has issued a second statement

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committing to improving their warranty and repairs process

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in response to customer backlash. In what kind of seems like an apology

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for the first apology it made two weeks ago in response to customer backlash.

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This time, the company got a lot more specific about its plans, mentioning video and photo documentation,

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accurate quotation, repairing instead of fully replacing specific components,

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leaving cosmetic damage unless asked to fix it,

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and overall trying to not address customers dealing with broken hardware

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by making their lives even worse. It seems like it should be obvious, but here we are.

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ASUS has also taken another whack at its ROG Ally handheld,

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and right on the heels of a leak about the upgraded ROG Ally X,

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news about another Windows handheld was revealed to Windows Central.

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Lenovo's reportedly working on a Legion Go Lite,

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powered by an AMD Z1 series processor, just like the OG Go.

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Windows Central says the Go Lite will feature some refinements,

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but doesn't go into specifics, leaving me no choice, but to assume it will be covered

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in some kind of exotic silk. When you play it, you have your pinkies up.

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In Space News, Boeing's long-troubled Starliner launch

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faced another setback, as NASA discovered both a helium leak

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and a design vulnerability that was in the Space Capsules propulsion system.

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Engineers have found a workaround for the propulsion issue, but the leak will still be there

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when Starliner launches on June 1st.

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That doesn't seem right. You know about it, you're not gonna fix it. Meanwhile, SpaceX, who has been beating Boeing for years,

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may have faced a setback in its next Starship launch

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after one of the company's Raptor 2 engines literally exploded.

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Man, say what you will about rocket failures, but it's kinda crazy that Boeing

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can't even fail as good as SpaceX. YouTube Music is rolling out a feature on Android

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that will allow users to search for songs by humming, singing, playing, or whistling them,

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similar to Shazam or even Google Search.

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But apparently it's faster than both of those and pretty accurate from the look of it,

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though far from 100%. At least for the Verge,

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the app interpreted a snippet of Tom Waits fumbling with the blues for Boom Boom Boomerang

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by D. Billions, what appears to be a bootleg,

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courgestani version of the Wiggles that somehow has more cumulative YouTube views

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than Taylor Swift. This is gonna be a great journalistic tool.

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And a Swiss startup called Final Spark is renting out online access

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to the world's first living processor.

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It's the Zerg, we made the Zerg. The service called Neuro Platform

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costs $500 per month per user for access

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to a computer made of 16 human brain organoids,

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3D cell masses of brain tissue.

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Okay. Three dozen universities are interested

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in Neuro Platform access for biocomputing research,

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but the bioprocessor is only good for experiments lasting several months

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since the organoids only live for 100 days.

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Do we bury them? Is there like a little cellular funeral?

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How do you handle this situation? What is, what are we doing here?

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I've been making some version of this show for about 10 years and things are getting weird, okay?

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And how will you handle coming back on Wednesday for more delightful tech news?

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I'm sorry, you have to come back. It is mandatory. I don't make the rules, okay?

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I just say them and then feel anxiety.