Hell yeah, you know what time it is. All right, baby, keep on rolling.
Unless you're somehow watching this on a computer with no clock, in which case, you don't.
Apple has once again edged out Microsoft for the top spot of the world's most valuable company
in terms of total market capitalization, which is share price times shares outstanding.
Only one short week after they themselves were briefly bumped into third by NVIDIA.
Apple's stock price shot up following what some are calling the best WWC ever.
In no small part, due to Apple finally unveiling its plans to integrate AI into iOS and macOS.
That's so many letters. Despite the Wall Street Ballyhoo, Apple's approach to AI remains cautious.
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Tim Cook said that they've done everything
they currently can to address AI hallucinations. But in all honesty, that's short of 100%.
I would never say it's 100%. That wasn't Tim Cook's voice.
Wise, considering that Google's AI overviews
are still recommending that people eat glue, citing the news reports of its own
earlier culinary recommendations, without clarifying that it was wrong.
In response to Apple's relatively limited chat GPT integration, Elon Musk took to Twitter,
I'm still calling it that, claiming he would ban his employees from using Apple devices at work,
and claiming incorrectly that Apple isn't smart enough
to make their own in-house LLM. This tweet had a community note,
but sadly it has since been voted down by Musk's ever-loyal parasocial brain rot brigade.
The day following the outburst, Musk quietly dropped his ongoing legal case
against OpenAI for breach of contract. Apparently in response to OpenAI,
publishing several emails from Musk that directly contradict the claims made in his complaint.
A guy like him hates facts. Google did try to slow down the Apple Intelligence
hype train, however, dropping a major update for Pixel phones compatible with Android 14.
This included the usual fixes, stability improvements, and critical security updates.
However, Google is also extending the AI features previously available only to the Pixel 8 Pro
to the 8 and 8a. They'll also be expanding their repertoire
of on-device AI features, including AI-powered live threat detection.
This may indicate that with the new lightweight Gemini Nano, Google has overcome at least some hardware
limitations to its AI integration ambitions.
Other security features include a cellular interception
warning and a lockdown mode that prevents juice jacking,
which is either a largely hypothetical cyber attack using publicly available charging outlets
to spread malware, or the crime of stealing a small child's juice box,
or a steroid powered,
editor just cut me off. Sadly, in order to bring these new features to life,
Google had to sacrifice another service to power their foul necromancy.
And thus the Google Pay app has died, so the anti-juice jacking lockdown might live.
Google Pay app is dead, long live Google Wallet.
The European Union has imposed an additional 38% tariff
on electric vehicles imported from China, bringing the added tax on Chinese EVs to 48%.
That might sound crazy high, but this actually follows a White House decision last month
to quadruple tariffs against Chinese EVs to 100%.
Both the EU and the US have obvious protectionist reasons
to want to exclude cheap Chinese goods from competing with homegrown industry.
But both governments also say that a big part of why these EVs are so much cheaper
is a combination of anti-competitive subsidies by Beijing and coerced labor,
aka slavery within these companies' supply chains. Currently, around half of global EV sales
are from Chinese manufacturers, because in addition to being cheap,
they've actually reached the point technologically where they mostly don't suck.
One of the world's most popular EVs, the BYD Siegel, could easily double in price
and still be the cheapest electric car on the American market.
At $10,000, it's actually cheaper than the number of live Siegels it takes to fill it.
I checked. Ooh. We're proud to announce the new Teckling's Cocktail.
It's just two ounces of whiskey and five dashes of quick bidders.
Yeah. NVIDIA hasn't released or even announced
their upcoming 50-series GPUs, but that won't stop them from already disappointing gamers.
Reliable leaker, Copight 7keme,
who definitely didn't realize how many people have to say that crap out loud for years to come before he made that handle,
tweeted out purported memory configurations for the five chips that will power the rumored GPU line.
According to this information, only the RTX 5090 will have more VRAM than its predecessor,
and the lowest end card might end up using older GDDR6 VRAM instead of upgrading to GDDR7.
These are just rumors, though. We should wait until NVIDIA's official announcement.
What's the point of being disappointed when we yet don't know how much
Team Green will overcharge for them? They're disappointment yet to find.
Microsoft is dropping official support for Windows 10 in October next year,
but AMD doesn't want to wait. For our lives to be over.
I heard that at Home Depot the other day. Team Red's upcoming Ryzen AI 300 series processors
only support Windows 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu.
So basically Windows 11 as listed on their specs page,
which will probably anger the small subset of enthusiasts planning to buy a new laptop
and replace Windows 11 with 10, and no one else.
But many more potential buyers of the upcoming Snapdragon X-powered co-pilot plus PCs
will be distraught if ARM wins its ongoing lawsuit against Qualcomm and blocks those laptops from being sold.
It's a perilous time to be a Windows laptop enjoyer.
See? Another AI video generator,
similar to OpenAI's horrifically impressive Sora, has broken cover joining Kling,
the tool unveiled last week by Chinese company, Qashu, not pronouncing that another time.
While Kling almost looks more capable than Sora, it's only accessible to certain partners.
Dream Machine, which was announced today by San Francisco based Luma Labs, is open to the public.
You're limited to 30 free five second generations
that seem to be in Sora's ballpark quality-wise, but good luck trying it out.
As soon as it was announced, the site was hammered with traffic, no doubt,
from an army of petite Denis Villeneux who will create the next generation of amazing cinema.
Raspberry Pi Limited has decided to go public. The company, known for its small programmable computers,
is the for-profit subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation,
or at least it was a subsidiary, subsidiary, subsidiary.
I don't know. It is set to change during Friday's IPO.
The foundation will sell 10% of its shares and will no longer be the majority owner.
The company says they won't change much, and I believe them.
That's because as we speak, institutional investors are trading shares
while retail investors have to wait until Friday. What's more authentically Raspberry Pi
than commercial buyers grabbing all the available stock while hobbyists get nothing?
And Waymo has issued a voluntary recall, AKA a patch for their mapping software
following an incident last month when an unoccupied robo-taxi drove into a telephone pole
while trying to pick up a passenger. The passenger didn't see the accident, but she heard it.
No one was injured, though to be fair, the collision happened at a speed of eight miles per hour.
About a relatively fast jog. This is only Waymo's second recall.
The first was earlier this year when, not one, but two of its vehicles ran into the same pickup truck,
only minutes apart from one another while it was being towed. It was probably painted the wrong color or something.
And the only thing keeping you apart from the next episode of TechLink is two more days.
And so come back. You can be painted any color you want.
Use oil-based paint.