Look, I wish I could say that Apple announced a sentient robot
that can do perfect Tim Cook impression, so I don't have to, but no, it's iPads.
Apple made a series of big announcements today, most notably the launch of the new M4 chip,
which the company says is designed to be an AI powerhouse.
So obviously Apple will be launching it first in their new iPad Pro.
So your mom's next tablet, it's gonna be jacked.
That is unless she goes with the new M2 powered iPad Air,
which bizarrely is ever so slightly heavier and thicker
than either the 11 inch or 13 inch Pro models.
What are we doing here? The M4 is a three nanometer chip
with four performance cores and six efficiency cores, plus an upgraded neural engine that Apple says
is quote, more powerful than any AI PC available today.
But the Snapdragon X laptops aren't out yet, and that sounds like fear.
I can smell it. The M4's GPU has also been upgraded, and it means that the new iPad Pro will be the first iPad
to feature ray tracing and hardware accelerated mesh shading.
So you heard it here first PC gamers, time to throw your computer in the garbage, okay?
I'll kick that. According to Apple, the new chip is 50% faster
than the M2, which is always what they do. They were not comparing it to the M3,
and it's twice as efficient. Apple also launched the new Pencil Pro,
which they say is loaded with tech,
packed to the gills, and it can do a barrel roll.
Though I'm not sure why it would have to unless you're a graphic artist trying to work
while taking enemy fire. Just kidding, that would be useful
for altering the pen stroke as you work.
Continuing another fine Apple tradition, the pen also has zero backwards compatibility
and will only function with M4 model iPad Pros
and M2 model iPad Airs. For what reason?
But if you're not immediately looking to invest in an iPad, but you'd still like a taste of Apple's AI accelerated
hardware, well, you're in luck. If you also happen to be an AI data center,
Apple is apparently working on dedicated chips for commercial AI processing purposes.
Okay, that's according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal, who I trust,
because they're named after three of my favorite inanimate objects.
Ah. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
OpenAI is reportedly developing a chat GPT powered search engine.
This is according to a Bloomberg source familiar with the matter,
but there's also been a recent registration for the domain search.chatgbt.com,
which must mean something. A serious chat GPT search function
could potentially rival Google search, so long as it doesn't share the same downsides
as Google's own AI infused search features, which recently told internet funny man at drill
that the best way to pass a kidney stone was to drink large volumes of piss.
You don't know until you try it. Chat GPT can already pull up some search results
for certain queries, such as weather info. However, this feature is only available to paid users
and its current capabilities are extremely narrow. OpenAI hasn't confirmed this potential new search feature,
but they have stated that they're developing a new tool called Media Manager,
which will allow creators and content owners to flag their works as available or unavailable
for use in AI training. The company will also be launching a tool
that can detect images created by Dal E3.
Now, in other maybe, maybe not open AI news,
the mysterious and extremely powerful AI model that briefly appeared on the LMSIS benchmarking site
under the name GPT2 chatbot has apparently resurfaced
under the names, I'm a good GPT2 chatbot
and I'm also a good GPT2 chatbot.
Don't get it mixed up. The first time GPT2 showed up, there was uncertainty about what the heck it was,
but this time, a day before it reappeared,
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted, I'm a good GPT2 chatbot,
seemingly confirming that these are two new models
that OpenAI is testing or possibly that Sam Altman has been
an AI chatbot this entire time. Can't wait until they launch Sam Altman too.
The original guy was just Sam Mann and then they kept iterating.
ByteDance is suing the United States government over its decision to ban TikTok next January,
unless ByteDance sells the app. According to the suit, Congress is using a nebulous
and unproven threat to national security to justify what is otherwise an infringement
upon American TikTok user's First Amendment rights.
The American government insists that their law is not a ban,
but rather a forced divestment. Of course, ByteDance probably can't sell TikTok
even if they wanted to because the Chinese government would have to consent to the sale,
which it's not going to. It's kind of a leave room for Jesus situation,
but instead of the son of God, it's Xi Jinping.
Accordingly, ByteDance argues that TikTok is being held to a different standard
than other similar platforms, such as ex formerly known as Twitter,
whose second largest investor is a Saudi prince.
And look, I know Saudi Arabia is technically a US ally,
but just because someone's supposed to be your friend doesn't mean they're not also
a brutal authoritarian dictatorship. I mean, we didn't know.
The US does have a history of restricting foreign ownership of TV and radio stations,
but there's some argument that a private platform featuring user-generated content
isn't quite the same thing. American TikTok users could always switch
to another similar platform, or they could always throw their smartphone into the sea
and finally be free of the curse of modernity.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Whose bits are the quickest of them all?
Snow White. Oh, she gets all the mirror stuff.
ASUS may have leaked the new naming scheme for AMD's mobile chips, and it's bad.
According to a now-deleted page of ASUS' website,
the company's upcoming VivoBook 16 OLED laptops
will be powered by a Ryzen AI9 HX170.
A CPU whose name seems to have more subtitles than Daenerys Targaryen.
Some outlets are comparing the AI part of the name to Intel's Ultra branding, but it seems more obvious
that it's a continuation of the ongoing trend to put AI in everything.
AI, I put that on everything.
Unironically, that's what's happening. Where's the beef?
Boeing has admitted that employees had been skipping
inspections of their 787 Dreamliner airplanes,
but marking the work as complete anyway.
While a worker at Boeing was praised for reporting the issue to the company
in an email to employees, a report from safety experts
in February found Boeing had major issues with its safety culture, claiming that many employees feared
retaliation for reporting safety concerns. Hopefully, Boeing can fix their culture soon,
since they're trying to launch a spacecraft to the ISS. Also, maybe Boeing should try mastering airplanes
before moving on to the final boss of non-terrestrial travel.
I don't know, just an idea. Intel and Qualcomm have been forbidden
from exporting any of their chips to Huawei.
On Tuesday, the US government revoked both companies' licenses to export what few processors
they were still allowed to sell to the beleaguered Chinese tech giant.
But economics are a funny thing. The move actually looks like it will hurt
Intel's bottom line. While Huawei seems to be doing just fine,
thanks to China investing heavily in chip development
in response to US trade restrictions. Restriction, restriction, restriction.
I'm Sean Connery. We started with banning chip sales to China,
and then we tried to ban TikTok, and it really should have been the other way around.
Micron and Lenovo have released the first laptops
compatible with the new LP-CAM 2 standard,
a new memory format that's significantly faster, more efficient, and more compact
than the old Sodim RAM modules were all used to. It's also a lot easier to replace or upgrade
compared to soldered RAM. iFixit called it awesome, and they were so excited,
they even said the word heck.
Micron is currently shipping their first modules, which can either be bought individually
or as part of Lenovo's seventh gen ThinkPad P1 workstation laptop.
Though I'm not sure why you'd buy it on its own without the only device it's currently compatible with.
Maybe just a look at it. Jessica really likes it.
It's pretty. It's beautiful. And Microsoft has provided US spy agencies
with a generative AI model based on GPT-4
that can be run locally, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Every service based on OpenAI's models other than this one has to call the company servers to function.
Bloomberg quotes a senior executive at Microsoft as saying, it's the first time a major large language model
has operated fully separated from the internet, completely ignoring Meta's Lama models
in what I can only assume is an attempt to start a diss track battle with Mark Zuckerberg.
Good luck. I can't wait. The Kendrick and Drake thing have slowed down.
I need my fix. And we might have to start a diss track battle with you
if you don't come back on Friday for more tech news. And let's be honest, neither of us wants that.
I've been doing some research and I got a lot of dirt on you. Okay, let's be smart here.