ah I have so much Tech news to give you but I don't know if you're ready some of
it may unsettle you cause you some
discomfort might make you feel a little
bit woozy Intel is reportedly working to
finalize commitments from NVIDIA to have Team Blue's Foundry division manufacture
team Green's gaming gpus an eerily
perfect setup for the tech industry version of the Red Wedding from Game of
Thrones and team red isn't even involved in tell no get out of there the news
comes from industry analyst Timothy aruri who wrote in a note to investors
that securing Foundry customers like NVIDIA or less likely broadcom is a
major goal of the company's new CEO lip boan even if NVIDIA doesn't love the
idea of having their chips made by a competitor in the gaming GPU Market to
be extremely charitable towards Intel the deal could make sense if only to
avoid the tariffs US president Trump may still place on chips made by NVIDIA's
existing partner tsmc and who knows maybe Intel could help NVIDIA stock more
than like four graphics cards at each retailer scalping and supply issues are
part of why AMD sold 10 times more RX
970 XTS in the first week than its predecessors or at least that's what CEO
Dr Lisa Sue said in an interview with ASUS China I got to say I didn't did not
have Radeon graphics cards are dominating the market so NVIDIA and
Intel have to team up to take them down on my 2025 bingo card because I don't
have a bingo card at all that's gambling lots of notable AI developments this
week with the arrival of new Gemini 2.5
thinking models from Google deep mind that the company says are Mighty
powerful by which they mean they're just slightly better on some common
benchmarks but a new Benchmark could show that all the AI suck hold on that's
for the end of the story open AI finally rolled out native image generation for
chat gbt's 40 model meaning it no longer
needs to use do for that the update has made chat gbt shockingly good at
reproducing text in generated images while maintaining the consistency of
characters and environments through multiple iterations it's a feature that
open AI has apparently been holding on to since 40 was en veiled nearly a year
ago I guess they decided to wait until 2 weeks after Google launched the same
thing in Gemini bom gotcha notably guard
rails for these image generators have been loosened open AI System card for
GPT 40 says they're not blocking the capability to generate public figures as
long as they're adults and public figures who wish for their depiction not
to be generated can opt out I didn't see
how uh in the document I guess Tred dming Sam guess what there's more NVIDIA
is now rolling out Project G assist it's AI assistant that can run locally on
your GPU and is apparently named after the company's fake AI assistant from
their April Fool's joke in 2017 8 years from parody to reality is
this normal the real G assist won't play games for you but in addition to giving
gaming tips it can actually control thirdparty accessories like wall lights
and even change some of your PC settings if you ask it to instead of just telling
you that you can open the set app than find an enable dark mode uh and how did
NVIDIA make a more useful AI assistant for Windows PCS than Microsoft meanwhile
chatbot service character. which is very
popular among teens as evidenced by all those uplifting articles about the
things it's done has announced a new parental insights feature which lets
users under 18 send a weekly activity
report to their parent or Guardian if they want to uh
it's parental controls for the good kids that don't need them now in case you're
worried that AI is getting too smart too fast there's a new Benchmark Arc AGI 2
which requires fluid intelligence to complete novel tasks instead of testing
AIS on their ability to solve problems that are probably in their training data
somewhere and nearly every model is
horrible at this new test so we should have some time left before we all feel
the AGI in the form of robot bot feet on our neck right now we can feel the
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Center's monitor Madness event at the link in the description did that news
disqui disturb or perturb you I'm sorry
these quick bits should feel much better entering your ocular and auditory
orifices why did I say it like that ASRock
ASRock every time ASRock has published a
slightly confusing update after investigating issues experienced by some
owners of the company's motherboards while ASRock acknowledged some some of
its BIOS versions caused boot issues with quote random 9,000 Series CPUs they
say their new BIOS 3.20 fixes that issue
and it's not related to the other issue that caused burn damage on the CPU
socket uh they didn't exactly say what could have caused multiple users to
report burnt CPUs and pins on the motherboard but implied it was caused by
debris in the socket which they removed
uh leading to the system some passing long-term stress tests so there was just
some you know stuff unfortunately for
ASRock many are still calling for further investigation as there was
something in there in it is a less than satisfying answer what was it well I
some variety of Gunk some promising
Windows 11 features have popped up in a new preview build including a controller
friendly keyboard and more importantly an improved Windows search where which
will only be available on co-pilot plus PCS because I guess Microsoft needed
Advanced neural networks to make search almost as useful as it was in Windows 7
Apple has once again been barred from participating in Google's upcoming
anti-rust hearing after an appeals court denied the tech Giants motion to testify
about how much it would suck for them to lose the $20 billion Google pays them
every year to be Safari's default search engine this is so sad they just want to
be together for the hearing and conduct Shady deals I ship them Canada has
banned Tesla from receiving any federal electric vehicle rebates in the future
weeks after the company filed for $ 43.1
million in rebates claiming that four of
its Canadian stores had sold 8,653 vehicles in 3 days that would be
120 EVS per hour the sales all happened the weekend
before a previously announced pause in the EV rebates program so I can
understand why all those Canadians rush to get one before the deadline and a
company called gravitics has been awarded funding by the US space force to
develop what is essentially an aircraft carrier in space awesomely referred to
as an orbital carrier the craft would actually hold maintain and release
satellites into orbit which would save on having to launch them from Earth
however the company didn't say they wouldn't also be used eventually for
transporting squadrons of star Fighters so I'm considering that a feature that's
coming later on also arriving later more Tech news on Friday specifically because
that's when Tech news happens next because that's when I make the tech news
happen I think that's how it works