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Our first story today is really an attempt by me to correct a series of weird articles that

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are circulating right now. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me in the comments.

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It'll be like a fun game where everyone's feelings get hurt.

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Last week, Microsoft called the TPM 2.0 hardware requirement for Windows 11 non-negotiable.

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But this week, a bunch of Reddit posts and articles went up claiming Microsoft had flip-flopped

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and we're now allowing the installation of Windows 11 on PCs that don't meet the official

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requirements. Now, I've seen some chatter on this topic in the last little bit, so my

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newsy sense went off. It was very unpleasant. It seems like the source of this idea is this

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PC World article published on Monday, which claims Microsoft is issuing instructions for

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installing Windows 11 on incompatible PCs. PC World says this article is translated from the

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original version that appeared on their German-language sister site,

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PC Welt, titled Microsoft erlaubt Installation von Windows 11 auf incompatiblen PCs.

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They didn't have to yell. I'm not sure why they're so angry. But both articles link to this Microsoft support article, which says nothing about

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allowing such installation and definitely doesn't give instructions for installing Windows 11.

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It actually only warns about compatibility issues and the lack of security updates you'll get

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if you do install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs, which you have been able to do using various

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workarounds since Windows 11 launched. This support article has been up for quite some time.

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I referenced it in our episode from a week ago, so I guess you could say this whole thing is

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my fault. Who put that in there? Day four and five of what turned out to be the 12 week days

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of OpenAI have come to pass, with day four's announcement being ChatGPT's Canvas notebook-like

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feature now being made available to all users, even those on the free tier. For day five,

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OpenAI's big announcement was the previously announced ChatGPT integration with Apple Intelligence,

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which was also announced by Apple today in what can only be described as the big tech equivalent

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to re-gifting. But it's worse, it's like Apple gave someone a gift and then OpenAI

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took it and wrapped it up again and gave it back. Here, I got you something.

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OpenAI did give out an Easter egg during the live stream, showing a calendar event for

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super secret AGI on their iPhone. You know, just a little tongue in cheek way to tease the thing

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Sam Altman says will usher in a post job society. It's just fun. As for Apple, that ChatGPT

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integration is part of software updates rolling out to iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS with support for

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Apple's image playground. So you can make little cartoon pictures and send them to your friends.

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Stunning! Is it Serkan? It's fine. iPhone users can also make GenMoji now to rectify the fact that

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no one thought to make a DJ octopus emoji. Among the arguably more useful changes,

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Apple Mail is finally getting categorization, and there are some tweaks to the reimagined

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Photos app that will hopefully save its designers from being lynched. Apple Intelligence also now

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supports localized English dialects in more countries, including the UK and Canada. So I'll

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now be telling Siri to order me a pop and a double double from Timmy's or she can take off like a

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as soon as I get an iPhone. Not to be left out, Google announced their first Gemini 2.0

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model Flash, which they say outperforms Gemini 1.5 Pro at twice the speed, etc, etc. Wake me up

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when they're self-aware. While we're not there yet, all of Google's main demos today involved

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agents, ones that can find out what the meta is for the game you're playing, an agent that will go

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browse the web for you to say find the contact email for a list of companies. But for now,

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only in your active browser tab, so it can keep checking if you're watching like a six-year-old.

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User! User! Watch this! Wow, good job! There's an agent for controlling a robot and a new coding

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agent called Jules. You know she's got tattoos. But the most interesting demo to me was Deep

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Research, a tool kind of similar to Notebook LM, but instead of just summarizing sources you've

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uploaded, it will search the web, compile sources on a topic, and then write a report. But what does

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school even need students for anymore? Get them out of there! Google also published an updated

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demo of its Project Astra Assistant deciphering laundry machine controls, which is a heck of a

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thing to trust an AI with, but it's definitely not a pre-made demo this time. We stopped doing that.

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Now I'm using these prototype glasses to test Project Astra hands-free.

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Sorry, you're using what now? Why didn't you bring that up before?

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What would I be without the quick bits? A shell of a man. Like a kind of mollusk.

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Microsoft is rolling out a couple things. One is the Experimental Windows Mixed Reality link

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app for Quest headsets, letting you set up multiple virtual monitors in 3D space.

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The other is nearly 400 PC games being added to the Xbox app on Windows, along with a new

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home layout and the Jump Back In section from the Xbox console dashboard. I mean,

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if that doesn't entice PC gamers to use the Xbox app, then I don't know, but it won't.

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General Motors has cut off funding for Cruise, the self-driving taxi startup it acquired back in

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2016. It'll absorb Cruise's assets and employees into GM's own division working on autonomous

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driving features for its consumer vehicles. Cruise staff reportedly got the memo the day

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that this was announced by GM, leading Cruise co-founder and former CEO Kyle Vogt to call the

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automaker a bunch of dummies. The Autopian writes this is yet another example of automakers learning

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they're not tech companies. But cars are machines. That's technology. Nope. They're art.

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That's nice. Meta social platforms including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp suffered a

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widespread outage today. At the time of writing, Meta hadn't given a specific reason for the outages

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beyond calling them a technical issue, which I guess is technically correct. As soon as reports

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started flooding in, Meta tweeted that they're working to get things back to normal because your

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dog needs to be using Meta AI or he won't know what the f**k is going on. Huh? Huh? This dog needs

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Meta AI. LG is exiting the Blu-ray player business and will no longer be making new players according

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to Flatpanel's HD and sure enough LG's site lists the last Blu-ray player the company announced,

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the UPK90, as discontinued. With Sony and Samsung also out of the market, Panasonic remains one of

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the few remaining companies who haven't quit yet. And while this is sad news for disc enthusiasts,

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I think we can all agree Blu-ray was a dumb name. CD, VHS, DVD, Blu-ray? We couldn't come up with a

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good acronym. Come on. And an AI company called Artisan has attracted criticism for advertising

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its services on San Francisco billboards with the slogan, Stop Hiring Humans. Telling companies to

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hire its AI sales rep agents, which it calls artisans, instead. When interviewed by SF Gate CEO

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Jaspar Carmichael Jack, which sounds like an AI-generated name, admitted the ads are somewhat

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dystopian. But so is AI, adding that you don't draw eyes with boring messaging. Fair point.

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And to be fair, you can't call this billboard boring. They even gave the AI laser eyes and

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included a spelling mistake as an example of human error. See, unlike humans,

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AIs won't make little mistakes like that. They may suggest that if you run out of gas,

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you could try filling your car up with melted cheese, but that could work. You won't even try it.

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Hey, why don't you try coming back here on Friday for more tech news? I mean,

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probably won't change your life for the better in unimaginable ways.

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Unless, uh...