I've been swimming in Tech news all morning and I would say come on in the
water's fine but it's not here let me dry off while
Chinese AI company deep seek didn't fully burst the AI bubble it did send
NVIDIA stock into a tail spin this week as investors questioned the need for
NVIDIA gpus when deep seeks models are just so dang efficient but maybe part of
the reason they're so efficient is because deep seek didn't spend any time
developing jailbreak defenses AI security researchers from the University
of Pennsylvania and Cisco found that deep seeks reasoning model R1 completely
failed to protect itself against a barrage of 50 popular chatbot jailbreak
techniques which I'll admit sounds very disorienting deep seek also apparently
didn't devote any time to protecting their internal database of user chat
histories and API Keys which was found by security researchers from WI is just
sitting there without even a password to protect it between that and the whole
sending data to China thing multiple countries are Banning restricting or
investigating the use of deep seek models including Italy Taiwan South
Korea France and even Belgium whose's usually pretty chill but deep seek hype
remains high and open AI had to do something so they launched their 03 mini
reasoning model which surpasses 01 particularly in science math and coding
performance and also doesn't immediately tell you how to make cocaine and
explosives when you ask nicely or Worse
explosive cocaine limited use of o03 mini is free through chat GPT but paid
users can use it more with $200 chat GPT
Pro subscribers getting unlimited use meanwhile Microsoft now offers open ai's
01 model through the think deeper feature in its co-pilot assistant for
free and despite saying it's investigating whether deep seek
improperly used open AI models to train their own Microsoft is also hosting deep
seek R1 on its cloud services but you
know what they say keep your friends close and your enemies safely contained
in a server Farm NVIDIA wasn't kidding when it warned about stock shortages for
the RTX 50 Series cards when they launched yesterday inventory for the RTX
5090 and 80 sold out in minutes at
retailers across the US the UK and
probably elsewhere sorry I didn't check every country in some European countries
it almost seemed like stock was never there in the first place thanks to the
leak of a distributor order link and if you're thinking wow people are more
passionate about top tier PC gaming than ever oh My Sweet Summer child this was
reportedly due to incredibly low stock numbers and determined scalpers with RTX
90s being listed for as high as 9,000
USD on eBay YouTube YouTuber Jay-Z fitty
sent tweeted yesterday that he spotted a 90 he had just signed at a Microcenter
launch event that morning being listed on Facebook Marketplace for
$5,800 now all that despite the RTX 580
representing objectively bad value compared to previous 80 series cards as
laid out so clearly in this glorious graph made by Paul's Hardware for his
recent video Paul really knocked it out
of the park with his graph it's a good graph Paul but hey it's not all bad news
NVIDIA also surprise dropped a new feature in its GPU driver called Smooth
motion a spatial frame interpolation feature which can bring less powerful
frame generation to almost any game kind
of like AMD's fluid motion frames which would be cool if NVIDIA didn't say that
for now it's exclusive to the RTX 50 Series which is you know if you didn't
catch it earlier so out out of stock stores are sending people home with
paper vouchers just to feel like they got something you ask me instead they
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myself off but I still feel like a a sticky residue oh it's cuz they's still
the quick bits Intel released their company Financial results yesterday and
you can find the link in our news sources below but I wouldn't unless you
just kind of want to feel sad team blue says Panther Lake laptop CPUs are coming
later in 2025 but Nova Lake the
successor to the truly depressing aerol Lake desktop chips aren't expected until
2026 Intel also announced that rather than competing with NVIDIA's AI
accelerators they're cancelling their Falcon Shores AI GPU for now giving off
some real Eeyore energy it probably
wouldn't have been any good but hey it's not like Intel is done
yet Microsoft just announced their existing Surface Pro and surface laptop
for businesses can be configured with Intel lunar Lake processors instead of
Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips they'll just cost around $400 extra for the privilege
of feeling like you've been Thanos snapped but you're disintegrating extra
slowly Apple has filed a motion to delay
proceedings in Google's antitrust trial after a judge denied the company's
request to intervene in the case it's a
heartwarming story of massive Tech Giants sticking up for each other
because one wants to continue getting paid $20 billion a year to have Google
be the default search engine in Safari wow I mean without that money
Apple might have to cancel more projects like the Mac connected AR glasses which
are no longer in development according to master of Apple Secrets Neil gstr by
which I mean Mark German don't worry meta's Mark Zuckerberg told investors he
plans on selling billions of AR glasses
so there will be lots to go around we'll just have little pairs we just slap on
babies right out of the womb and you know what let's have some positive
stories to round off this episode after launching Spider-Man 2 on Steam this
week Sony announced the game won't require players to sign in with a
Playstation network account and neither will God of War Ragnarok The Last of Us
part two remastered and Horizon zero Dawn remastered okay also the video game
history Foundation opened digital access to more than 30,000 files in its Archive
of game materials and there's no playable games but there's some cool art
and if you're looking for a quick way to get a real search result instead of
Google's AI overviews just make your search sound more angry with some curse
words it'll skip right to the good
yeah and you better be here on Monday for more Tech news or so help me I'll
have some Choice words for you like I
miss you please reconsider your decision