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Sometimes technology can seem a bit dystopian and sad but it also gives us little gadgets with

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switches and clicky buttons and those and those are fun to you know.

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So as long as those are around I think we'll be fine.

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DeepSeq R1, the Chinese AI model that matches OpenAI's O1 for a fraction of the cost,

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has the entire AI world panicking, partially because it costs a fraction of what it takes to

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run O1 and it's open weights so you can run it locally.

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But investors really started to freak out when DeepSeq surged to the top of the free

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apps list on the iOS app store, passing chat GPT, threads and even block blast.

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As a victory lap, DeepSeq also dropped a multimodal model this morning called Motown.

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Nope, just wanted to keep the M's going. It's called Janus Pro which they say beats OpenAI's Dolly 3 on a couple of benchmarks

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that apparently still means something. The whole thing has investors shook, leading to massive drops in tech stocks across the board.

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Even NVIDIA dropped by a whopping 16% as confused, non-techy investors struggled to figure out

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whether this means companies still need literal shiploads worth of GPUs from Team Green.

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NVIDIA tried to explain through Bloomberg that AI models are still going to have to run on something,

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although it's unclear whether it's going to be DeepSeq R1 for much longer.

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The company says it's weathering a cyber attack, so it's limiting new signups,

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which were apparently only being allowed for users with a Chinese phone number,

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but that notice is now gone. Whether it comes back or not, DeepSeq has given American AI companies a kick in the pants,

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with Meta reportedly setting up war rooms to analyze DeepSeq's tech.

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Zuck needs to know how they did this. Did they learn Jujitsu and try to make Joe Rogan like them?

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What's their secret? Intel has released their highly anticipated second field update for their core Ultra 200S

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desktop processors, which the company promised would deliver a massive performance boost

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to the troubled Aero Lake lineup. To get the fix, you have to update to both a BIOS with Intel's new fixes,

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as well as update Windows 11 to the correct version.

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Making me wonder, who really did all the work here?

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Thankfully, KitGuru has already tested it out, and they first asked us to check ourselves.

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Because in Cinebench Multicore, the Core 9 Ultra 285K is right where it always was

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at the top of the chart, and I didn't know that. It also got a massive boost in Cyberpunk 2077, where it's actually better than its 14th gen

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predecessor now. Wow. It just goes to show that, oh, but it barely got better in other games,

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and in some of them the older chips actually improved more.

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Good news for everyone then. Gplay, a Bulgarian PC retailer, has revealed some interesting details about the mystery

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of AMD's Radeon RX9070 pseudo-launched. Gplay confirmed they do have RX9070 XTs in stock,

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despite AMD recently saying the cards would launch in March.

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They also hinted at the original pricing, which, when translated and calculated by

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videocards.com with a Z, indicates the RX9070 XT had an original MSRP of around $900,

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while the RX9070 non-XT would have been around $750, with an originally planned

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launch date of January 23rd before Intel and then NVIDIA came with low-priced competitor cards and

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just f**ked it all up. It's kind of what we all expected, but it just hits different being

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calmly explained by a Bulgarian in plaid. Here's a bone for the AMD fanboys, though.

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Team Red says the integrated GPU in their Ryzen AI Max 395 laptop APUs

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demolish the mobile versions of NVIDIA's RTX 4070 by up to 68%. Awesome! Can I plug it into my PC,

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though? No. So, now I get to press the quick bits button.

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Meta says their Meta AI chatbot will now personalize its responses using users' Facebook and

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Instagram account data, so it'll be able to give you activity recommendations based on things like

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the home city listed in your profile and photos that you've uploaded, whether you want it to or

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not. Yeah, Meta told TechCrunch that users won't be able to opt out of giving their AI a more

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personal touch. But Meta AI can also now remember things that you've explicitly told it in messages,

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and you can ask it to forget those things, like say you've already told Meta AI that you're vegan.

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You can delete that because it's so fun to keep reminding people. Google has taken down almost three years' worth of firmware images for the Pixel 4a

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previously hosted on a support page, only providing the most recent firmware,

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which many 4a users say has tanked their devices' batteries. Google did announce earlier this month

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that the update, which is required to improve stability, basically kills the battery. So

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they offered free battery replacements, or a payment of 50 bucks USD, or a $100 discount

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on the purchase of another Pixel phone, which is fine. I would just love to know what horrible

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risk Google is mitigating through basically forcing people to stop using a lot of otherwise

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perfectly good phones. All they have to say is that it's haunted and I'll be fine.

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Michigan has officially passed a bill into law requiring the American state's high schools

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to offer at least one in-person computer science class. It's a great step forward for

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technological literacy. It's just maybe a bit late, given that soon we're not going to have

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to use computers at all because open source Chinese AI is going to do all of our work for us.

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As long as we don't ask it about Tiananmen Square. Good job, Michigan.

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And a hardware modder going by Crastinator Pro has shown off his custom steam brick,

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so-called, because it's a steam deck with everything except the internals removed.

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He says he did this because A, the steam deck didn't fit in his backpack,

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and B, he is not a smart man. His words, not mine. The real reason is this guy only ever used a

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device made for handheld gaming by plugging it into a TV or his smart glasses. Now if you have

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any suggestions for stuff he should add to the brick, I'm going to stop you right there. He says

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it's not about adding, it's about removing. But he is considering giving it an assortment of hats.

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And I hope you wear the Techlinked Viewer hat once again on Wednesday because you'll come back

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for more tech news and you're not allowed to watch unless you wear the hat. What do you mean

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you haven't been wearing it this whole time? What are we doing?