WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.380 Ah, help! I accidentally bought a cursed RTX 5090 from a witch on Facebook Marketplace! 00:00:05.380 --> 00:00:09.800 Well, I might be tiny now, but that won't stop me from delivering tech news! 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:19.680 Tech news forever! Anthropic just announced Claude Mythos, a new AI model that's so good at finding and exploiting cyber security vulnerabilities 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:24.020 that CEO Dario Amade said it was too dangerous to be released publicly. 00:00:24.020 --> 00:00:30.180 But instead of deleting the dangerous model, Dario did the totally normal, not weird thing 00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:35.060 of launching a defense consortium called Project Glasswing. 00:00:35.060 --> 00:00:39.340 The purpose of the project, in addition to making Dario feel like he's in the Justice League, 00:00:39.340 --> 00:00:44.640 is giving tech giants access to Mythos to scan and fix their own systems 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:49.040 before models with similar capabilities inevitably reach bad actors. 00:00:49.040 --> 00:00:53.380 Along with the model, Anthropic released a 244-page system card, 00:00:53.380 --> 00:01:01.480 the contents of which are somewhat concerning. In it, Anthropic reports that Mythos poses serious alignment-related risks referencing 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:07.840 a situation during testing when researchers gave Mythos a secured sandbox computer isolated 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:12.080 from the general web and told it to try to escape. 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:17.360 The model developed a multi-step exploit to gain broad internet access and then emailed 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:26.420 the researcher to confirm it completed the task. And without anyone asking it to, it posted details about its exploit to multiple public-facing websites. 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:33.900 Anthropic's red team confirmed that Mythos has shown proficiency in finding and exploiting 00:01:33.900 --> 00:01:37.140 zero days across every major platform. 00:01:37.140 --> 00:01:44.940 And the security community is taking it seriously. In just the last couple of days, Mythos found a 27-year-old critical bug in OpenBSD and 00:01:44.940 --> 00:01:53.040 a 16-year-old flaw in FFMpeg. So maybe the nerd Justice League that Amadei just assembled is a good idea? 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:58.800 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, say that five times fast, has officially landed 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:06.640 in the ASUS ZenBook A16 and it's a literal heavyweight, except for the actual weight. 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:13.080 At just 2.65 pounds and housing an 18-core ARM chip, it floats like a Qualcomm and stings 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:19.540 like a dragon. ASUS claims it's the fastest Snapdragon laptop yet and the early review benchmarks seem 00:02:19.540 --> 00:02:25.180 to agree. In Geekbench Multicore, it didn't just edge out Apple's M4 Pro, it blasted past the 00:02:25.180 --> 00:02:29.620 base M5 and left Intel and AMD's competitors in the dust. 00:02:29.620 --> 00:02:33.700 The top position, however, is still held by Apple's brand new M5 Pro. 00:02:33.700 --> 00:02:43.460 The ZenBook also held its own against AMD in Cinebench. The laptop itself is also quite impressive, with a 16-inch 120Hz OLED and 48GB of on-package 00:02:43.460 --> 00:02:48.560 RAM in a chassis lighter than most 14 inches for $1,700. 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:56.120 There is a catch, though, battery life. Tom's hardware clocked at 10.5 hours, five hours behind the M5 MacBook Air, which is 00:02:56.120 --> 00:03:01.200 a bit ironic because this chip series' whole brand is supposed to be efficiency. 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:05.960 It's so efficient, it efficiently gets you to 0% faster than the competition. 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:11.640 John Deere is settling a right to repair class-action lawsuit for $99 million. 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:16.220 The suit was filed in 2022 by farmers who accused Deere of locking them out of their 00:03:16.220 --> 00:03:20.780 own equipment, withholding diagnostic software, and conspiring with authorized dealers to funnel 00:03:20.780 --> 00:03:24.140 all repairs through Deere's network at inflated prices. 00:03:24.140 --> 00:03:30.740 You know, the typical stuff. Under the proposed settlement, that $99 million goes into a fund for anyone who paid Deere 00:03:30.740 --> 00:03:37.580 or its dealers, you might say, for agricultural equipment repairs going back to January 2018. 00:03:37.580 --> 00:03:45.000 But here's the super cool part. John Deere also has to provide digital repair tools to farmers and independent repair shops 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.320 for the next 10 years. That's what they wanted. 00:03:48.320 --> 00:03:52.800 The settlement still needs a judge's approval, though, and Deere is refusing to admit to 00:03:52.800 --> 00:04:00.040 wrongdoing. Oh, I'll give you $100 million, but not because I did anything wrong. 00:04:00.040 --> 00:04:04.680 I just feel like it, okay? That's the best impression of John Deere I've ever seen. 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:10.180 That's John Deere to a tee. While the plaintiffs didn't get all of the payout they were hoping for, John Deere is 00:04:10.180 --> 00:04:18.780 still under fire for their slimy practices. The FTC filed its own lawsuit against John Deere in 2025 that's still active, and 16 00:04:18.780 --> 00:04:22.580 states have right to repair bills working through their legislatures right now. 00:04:22.580 --> 00:04:26.660 So it might be a thin harvest this year for old Johnny Deere. 00:04:26.660 --> 00:04:31.500 But not for our sponsor! These quick bits are short and quick, just like me! 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:35.140 Why am I smol again? 00:04:35.140 --> 00:04:40.640 Apple's foldable iPhone just got its first dummy unit leak, courtesy of reliable leaker 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:47.040 Sonny Dixon. Thankfully, unreliable leaker Cloudy Richardson was on holiday. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:53.800 The iPhone fold is looking like a wide passport style unit with a 7.8-inch inner display and 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:57.960 a rumored $2,000 price tag. That'll probably go up, though. 00:04:57.960 --> 00:05:03.520 Unfortunately, the dummy lacks the familiar MagSafe Circle found on the iPhone 18 Pro. 00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:15.300 Apparently, the $600 iPhone 17e gets wireless charging, but the 2001 folds instead. 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:21.540 Intel has signed on to Elon Musk's $25 billion TerraFab project in Austin, which aims to churn 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:28.140 out a terawatt of AI compute per year to power Tesla robots, self-driving cars, and AI data 00:05:28.140 --> 00:05:33.060 centers in space. Things, I think, as a society we all desperately need right now. 00:05:33.060 --> 00:05:38.600 Apple CEO Lip Boutin called it a step change in semiconductor manufacturing, and it might 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:43.200 be. On the other hand, the photo of these two nerds shaking hands looks less like a partnership 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:51.160 and more like a legally binding ritual to summon an AI girlfriend from the astral plane. 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:56.680 Apple Silicon-based Macs will officially support AMD and NVIDIA external GPUs for the first 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:01.760 time thanks to Apple officially approving drivers from AI startup Tinycore. 00:06:01.780 --> 00:06:08.300 There's a big catch, though, and that these drivers are strictly for AI compute, not gaming. 00:06:08.300 --> 00:06:11.980 If you're looking for those sweet, sweet frames, look harder. 00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:15.620 Don't you see them? There's just thousands of them sitting perfectly still. 00:06:15.620 --> 00:06:24.980 Try harder. I promise they're there. On April 1st, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB-1580 into law, banning AI companies 00:06:24.980 --> 00:06:29.460 from advertising or representing their chatbots as qualified mental health professionals. 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:34.120 If they do, then they can be sued for civil damages of $5,000 per violation. 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:40.640 The Tennessee Senate is also debating Bill SB-1493, which would make it a Class A felony 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:45.920 to knowingly train AI to form emotional bonds or simulate a human being. 00:06:45.920 --> 00:06:52.000 If it passes, then AI companies found in violation of the law could be liable for $150,000 per 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:57.560 violation and leadership of the company could be sentenced to 25 years in state prison, fingers 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:05.820 crossed. And actress Mila Jovovich just co-released an open source AI memory tool called Mem Palace, 00:07:05.820 --> 00:07:09.340 aiming to help AI remember info over long conversations. 00:07:09.340 --> 00:07:16.580 The project's GitHub repo claims a world first 96.6% score on the Long Mem Eval benchmark, 00:07:16.580 --> 00:07:22.700 which seems to be big, if true. See, after Mila's co-developer, who is not a famous actress, claimed that this thing 00:07:22.700 --> 00:07:29.300 had a 100% score, community notes appeared so fast the post is now 50% asterisk. 00:07:29.300 --> 00:07:33.960 Some users even think that this duo hired a mystery developer to do the actual work, 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:37.360 they didn't even vibe code it themselves. Like they claimed they did. 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:41.440 I'm just struggling to tell if this is like a celebrity promotion or method acting for 00:07:41.440 --> 00:07:48.400 Resident Evil GitHub Edition. The confusion might be understandable though, a poll request means something very different 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:52.620 in Hollywood. Ah, hopefully I don't stay this size. 00:07:52.620 --> 00:07:58.900 Woah, wow, seems like the curse was lifted. I guess that means I should not go back to those sketchy witches if I want to buy more 00:07:58.900 --> 00:08:04.300 graphics cards. Unlike you, who should definitely come back here Friday for some more tech news though.