{"video_id":"o9ogVYc4FjY","title":"Did Qualcomm Prank Us?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:53:29Z","duration_s":489,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.759,"text":"the day is finally here it's Microsoft's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.32,"end_s":12.639,"text":"Apple silicon moment and it's just like I imagined a real hot mess reviews of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.84,"end_s":19.16,"text":"the new Qualcomm ARM-powered Snapdragon X Elite laptops are out and by laptops I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.359,"end_s":23.279,"text":"mean laptop there are more than a dozen models on the way but the only full","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.96,"end_s":28.16,"text":"reviews right now are covering the ASUS VI book S15 and rather than kicking off","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.279,"end_s":33.48,"text":"the Windows on ARM Revolution with a bang I'm really hearing more of 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whole thing he's very happy right now there's good reason to stay on your toes though this Vivo book features the least powerful of the four Snapdragon X Elite variants the xie 78100 which can't even boost at all although Windows Central notes that ASUS says this is a 45 watt version of this chip that's 31% faster I don't know what's going on and I'd like to speak to the manager not everyone was upset though YouTuber Dave 2D was very excited perhaps because he used gaming laptops for the battery life comparison but I'm just a tech news guy how does he make the laptop float I don't know fittingly gaming especially x86 games that must be emulated is exactly where the X Elite struggles the most despite many promising early demos but the Vivo book's not a gaming laptop it's a co-pilot plus PC so those fancy new AI features like translated live captions are here although PC World notes that some of them appear to require an internet connection uh thankfully recall doesn't because it's been sent for a timeout to think about what it's done along with the rest of the revieww units in the Snapdragon X lineup most of which are reportedly just now making their way into the media's hands it might be time to look at another Contender for an apple silicon moment that's right I'm talking about the new risk five main board for Frameworks laptops built by Deep Computing and look there's another risk five modular laptop from a company called sip cede cped cped on me I have a feeling these aren't going to be super userfriendly though so the next apple silicon moment might just come this fall when Apple unveils a MacBook Pro that got caught in the big hydraulic press from the iPad ad Forbes has threatened legal action against AI powered search company perplexity for engaging in what we used to call plagiarism before 2023 according to axios Forbes wrote a letter to perplexity CEO aravind serenas after the startups new pages feature barely cited Forbes while while lifting entire fragments and even an illustration from an in-depth report on former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's effort to build swarms of drones that won't form lewd shapes in the air instead of paying attention when he speaks see that was inaccurate this is why we need real reporters it also doesn't help that a wired investigation found that perplexity service like all generative AI has a debilitating addiction to making up or that the way Mr serenas responded to complaints from Forbes journalists on Twitter was by thanking them for the feedback and promising to improve the feature which will take their jobs sifting through piles of emails is a job no one wants except our sponsor sanbox they want to painstakingly sort your emails into appropriate folders and leave only the important emails at the top of your inbox because it's not painstaking for them they like doing it they're weird I don't know why go through your emails one by one hoping to find the diamond in the rough of newsletters you don't 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of building their own which would be cheaper this way NVIDIA could keep their Crown it's like they say what goes up could keep going up forever what are you a plane scientist former open aai Chief scientist Ilia suver who got Sam ultman fired and then apologized and helped bring him back has started a new AI company after leaving open AI earlier this year it's called safe superintelligence Inc describing itself as the world's first straight shot SSI lab which sounds like a much better way to get to artificial super intelligence don't bother with launching Scarlett Johansson chatbots for lonely Engineers just go straight to the end just build that one first now don't get it twisted this is a real company they have a website there's a URL at the top okay these guys are geniuses their names are pronounceable in spatial Computing news Apple has apparently suspended work on the Vision Pro 2 to fully focus on making something human beings can afford maybe meanwhile meta has laid off some employees as they restructure reality Labs into two groups metaverse will handle the quest line while wearables will make things like the Ray Ban meta smart glasses and perhaps pants just an idea call me Zucker meanwhile AR glasses company xreal developed a phone that isn't a phone but a companion to their glasses I mean it looks like a phone it runs Android based OS the the pictures indicate it connects to a cellular network and the site literally calls it the only device you need how is it not a phone explain it to me I'm so irrationally angry about this it's a Game Boy Google has suddenly updated the pixel 88a and 8 Pro with official support for connecting to an external display through its USBC Port reigniting some Enthusiast dreams of using their phone as a mobile desktop computer some people think that would be kind of cool like why can't we do that pixel phones have actually had support for DisplayPort over USBC and a desktop mode baked into Android for some time but you had to go digging in the developer options to find it now anyone with a pixel 8 series phone can plug into a monitor and say cool before realizing they probably don't ever need to do that again and pixel 7 users can too right right and Japanese Tech Giant soft bank has announced it is working on emotion cancelling AI technology to make Angry customers sound calmer when they call customer service Representatives Japan like the rest of the world has a problem with customer harassment of employees and that extends to call centers naturally the solution is to cover up the issue and ignore it even worse the AI doesn't change the words it just changes the tone so it's not really fixing the abusive language it's just turning it into some sort of demeaning ASMR I'll tell you what would really be demean meaning to me though if you didn't come back on Friday for more Tech news so maybe don't do that and hang out with us your family"}