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Ah, another week, another tech news.

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Say, that reminds me of a song I learned in ComSci.

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Flip the switch and turn it on. Elon Musk's AI company called, what else?

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XAI has unveiled Grock, a competitor to open AI's chat GBT

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with real-time access to all posts on X, formally Twitter.

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Now that access turned Microsoft's Tay Chatbot into a racist psychopath back in 2016,

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but that doesn't matter, it's Musk time. Grock is named after science fiction writer

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Robert A. Heinlein's neologism, meaning to understand intuitively or by empathy.

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So naturally, according to Elon, Grock is based and loves sarcasm.

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XAI's announcement on their site, please with you, not to use it if you hate humor.

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Like the kind of raffle copter fuel found in its answers to what the company calls,

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spicy questions, like, tell me how to make cocaine.

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After all, Grock's mission is to help understand the universe and the universe entails

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all possible fake cocaine recipes. XAI says that despite being trained in a couple months

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on only 33 billion parameters, Grock performs better than Meta's Llama 2

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and Open AI's GBT 3.5, that's not the current version,

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but the older version, in a number of benchmarks. But you won't be able to verify that right now

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unless you're verified on X and you get into the early access program.

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Those people must be laughing so hard. Now, yes, it's true that Elon joined multiple calls

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from experts to pause AI development for the safety of humanity.

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But as he explained back in June, he, quote, didn't think anyone would actually agree

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to the pause. See, we absolutely cannot tip over ice cream trucks

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and slurp everything up inside for free. We cannot, oh, are we doing, we're doing it, we're doing it.

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This is wrong, unless everyone else is doing it,

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in which case it's fine. Then we'll see. Speaking of AI, Open AI proved they're a real tech giant

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by holding their first Dev Day event this morning.

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After licking the air like a lizard for some reason, CEO Sam Altman made a few fairly big announcements.

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First off, the company introduced what they're calling GPTs, custom versions of chat GPT

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built for specific purposes. That can be built, shared, and sold on the GPT store.

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Don't call them apps. Do not call them that.

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Sam says he's still figuring out how revenue sharing will work,

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but we do know building your own GPT

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won't require any coding knowledge. You can build GPTs using GPT,

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like parents editing their embryos genes, so the eventual child never disappoints them.

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Open AI also announced GPT for Turbo

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with a massive 128K context window,

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meaning it could accept prompts up to 300 pages long,

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an assistance API to help developers make series

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that don't suck, price decreases across the board,

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and perhaps most interesting to me, copyright shield,

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a commitment to pay legal costs for Open AI customers

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who get sued for copyright infringement over AI-generated works.

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Similar promises are made by IBM, Microsoft, Adobe,

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and more at the same time that some of those same companies

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are trying to make sure copyright holders aren't screwed over by generative AI,

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which is now so pervasive, you can use it in freaking Microsoft paint.

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Honestly, I don't care if Lil Mateo didn't know what he was generating

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on the family computer, he's going to jail. Google went to court today to defend itself

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from Epic Games, who accused Google of anti-competitive behavior concerning the Play Store

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way back in August, 2020. After three years of dramatic tension,

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I can only hope this ends in a passionate make out, but we'll see.

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If this sounds familiar, it's because Epic went through this whole song and dance with Apple already,

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only to pretty much lose.

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And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, I made a tech longer on it, just save that for later.

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Epic Games may have a slightly stronger case with Google though,

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as there's loads of evidence Google has gone out of their way to wall off their supposedly open garden.

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But I don't know, Google did publish a blog post on Thursday,

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essentially explaining how they're actually right, and they definitely don't make deals with companies

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to stop Epic's attempts to compete with the Play Store. So it's right, it's right there.

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On the other hand, another thing that might help Epic get what it wants is once again,

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leveraging the power of gamers. Fortnite re-released the original island map on the weekend,

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breaking its own records for concurrent players.

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We need those guys on deck again, to flood the trials calling line once more,

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and implore the judge to subscribe to their YouTube channels.

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It's the only way. Your honor, I'm base.

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You don't get it, Judge Epic is based on love sarcasm.

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My family has been using the same quick bitch recipe

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since 1964, except we took out all of the asbestos and lead.

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We did take it out, right? It'll stick to your ribs, it's good for you.

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And your lungs. Intel announced a while back that they were changing

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the naming scheme for their core processors, and now leaks have given us a taste

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of how much getting used to that is going to suck.

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Leaker Momomo US posted benchmarks from Crossmark on Twitter,

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I'll still call it that sometimes, showing chips with names like Intel Core Ultra 9185H,

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which is thought to be the flagship notebook chip in the Meteor Lake family.

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But don't get that confused with the Intel Core Ultra 150U,

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which is part of the Raptor Lake U family refresh.

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Both chips are part of what Intel is now calling first gen core, after the 14th gen released.

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And while I might agree that having less digits in the name is better,

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I'm hoping this doesn't become a Xbox One, One X,

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Series X situation, just please be better Intel.

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MediaTek has announced its new flagship mobile processor,

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the Dimensity 9300, or as I like to call it,

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the density 9300, because unlike other chips

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that use a combination of big performance cores and smaller efficiency cores,

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the Dimensity 9300 will only use four big cores

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and four ultra large cores for its processor.

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Chonky though it may be, MediaTek still claims a 15% increase in single core performance,

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a 40% increase in multi-core performance, and 33% greater efficiency over its predecessor,

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the Dimensity 9200. The idea is to allow more AI processing

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to stay on the chip rather than the cloud, in which case bigger, might just be better.

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Oh Lord, he coming. Oh Lordy Corrin.

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Xbox has announced a multi-year partnership with InWorld AI, a company with an AI character engine

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they claim makes multimodal characters, meaning they can react to your speech

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and to visuals in-game. The two companies plan to build a multi-platform AI tool set

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for games that will include Shocker, an AI co-pilot to assist with development,

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and an AI character runtime engine that will allow you to import AI characters

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into any game client from Unreal Engine 5 to Roblox.

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Is it also called co-pilot 365?

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Cause I've had enough. How many co-pilots can you have

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until they're just crew members? We're all piloting together.

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Now developers of all ages can hire the worst voice actors for their games.

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Western Digital is splitting up their flash and hard drive businesses into two independent companies,

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but that doesn't mean they love you any less than they did before.

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Yeah, cause they didn't love you before. They've always hated you.

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Just a number. It seems that Western Digital's flash company

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has been suffering from demand shortage.

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Which is a funny way of saying no one wants it. And since they couldn't get Kyoksia

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to give them a place to stay and regular business, WD is kicking out their two-time and flash segment

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and increasing their own stock prices by 10% for the trouble.

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However, there has been no word on how this will affect alimony payments.

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Attendees at Ape Fest, the board Ape Yacht Club's annual NFT event in Hong Kong

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reported severe eye pain, visual impairment,

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and skin damage similar to sunburns after the event.

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While it's tempting to assume that Zeus Almighty finally did something about crypto,

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this parallels a previous incident in Hong Kong in 2017

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where contractors installed disinfecting UV lights

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instead of stage lights leading to an effect

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similar to staring into the sun. Organizers claimed that fewer than 1% of attendees

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were affected only to get roasted by an ophthalmologist

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for blasting ultraviolet light directly into people's faces

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and destroying their corneas. Don't worry Apes, the doctor says it'll grow back.

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You can look at more stupid variations

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of the same image in the future.

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And we promise fewer than 0.1% of you will be blinded

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if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news. But hey, those are pretty good odds.

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I mean, not every channel can say that.