We've got a great show for you today, which is easy for me to say now uh
before we've filmed any of it. So, we'll
see. Valve has released an updated stable version of Steam OS that makes it
sound like you might be able to install it on third-party handhelds like the
Lenovo Legion Go and Asus ROG Ally
because Valve explicitly provides instructions on how to do that right
here. They even called the patch notes for this update Go country, but I'm
still skeptical. This is a pretty big deal. Valve's gone from lightly hinting
that maybe you could run Steam OS on something other than an officially
licensed handheld to saying, "Oh, you want to take Steam OS for a rip on your
own sled? Well, freaking send it, bud." As long as you're installing it on
something with AMD hardware and an NVMe
drive, which describes most of the Windows gaming handhelds out there. and
I'm just now being told many desktop computers. Valve also said they're
currently working with select partners on officially licensed Steam OS devices,
which is great. Keep them coming. But until those show up, it sounds like you
could install Steam OS on devices like the updated Zotac Zone with a Ryzen AI
HX370 which is shown off at Computex or even MSI's new AMD powered handheld, the
horribly named Claw A8
BZ2, the official handheld of Adele
Dazim. OpenAI is getting serious about hardware and acquiring one of legendary
Apple hardware designer Joanie Ives design companies for $6.5 billion. So
Joany's picking up some new sad designer glasses. Okay. In a joint update on
OpenAI's website, Joanie and Sam Alman
introduced the company called IO lowercase which has already been working
on OpenAI hardware since last year. Joanie will continue to work with OpenAI
and IO, but will not become an OpenAI
employee. He'll be staying at his other design company, Love from. I know a few
of you were worried about that. Uh, but what is this mysterious hardware? Well,
according to the Wall Street Journal, Sam told OpenAI employees, "It's not a
phone or glasses." While reliable supply chain informant Mingchi Quo said it's
going to be a small device you can wear around your neck like the dozen or so of
those that have launched and done quite
well. Yeah, they've launched. But hey,
this collab has the power of friendship on its side. Sam and Joanie have become
so close IV now talks about Sam like he's an iPhone. Sam is a rare visionary.
Utterly inspiring. In other AI news, although Google's new VO3 can generate
video, sound effects, music, and lip-sync voice over all at once. It's
only available through Google's $250 AI
Ultra subscription. And as CNET wonders, who the heck is going to pay for that?
The answer is all the people currently pumping the internet full of V3
generated videos, including fake Fortnite streamers, crazily wellexecuted
fake pharmaceutical ads, and trippy videos of fake people having a crisis
over whether they're real or not. Just just fun stuff. Very sharable. Honestly
though, this is the first time I've been able to find AI generated videos
genuinely funny. Uh not just funny because they're spaghetti hands or
whatever. I'm sure that'll get old though. Anthropic finally released a new
model, Claude 4, in the Opus and Sonnet
varieties. It's apparently focused on and is very good at coding now, which is
a bit of a pivot. Claude was previously known for giving more creative and
human-like responses, but it still is creative. Like in Anthropic safety
report, they said that in a fictional scenario, when Claude 4 discovered that
the engineer who planned to replace it with a newer model was cheating on their
spouse, Claude threatened to reveal the affair if it gets replaced, which I
wouldn't even think of. I just, you know, I just let them do it. You got me.
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bits, too. Uh, just wait till you see
how okay these are. Xiaomi, the world's third biggest phone maker, has unveiled
its first mobile chipset made mostly in-house. It's a 3nanmter 10 core SoC
called the XR01. And it's got some interesting customizations that Xiaomi
says will let it compete with the best phone chipsets out there when it
launches inside the 15s Pro phone,
mostly in China. One early unboxing seemed to show the 15s Pro beating a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite in the Ant22
benchmark, but another one shows the XR01 losing to both the 8 Elite and
another flagship, the MediaTek Demensity 9400. So, I'm kind of regretting
including this story today. Next one's good, though.
Uh, what? The Intel Arc B770, a gaming
GPU that would be faster than the B580, which I feel like I have to explain
every time because the naming scheme is weird, might not be dead or even mostly
dead. According to Dutch hardware site Tweakers, bit of an off-putting name,
but did you know what they're like in Amsterdam, man? Tweakers says multiple
sources they spoke to at Computex confirmed Intel plans to introduce the
B770 by the end of the year. Fingers crossed for that.
How do you and for AMD to stop shooting
themselves in the foot by letting supposed marketing guy Frank Azor
continue to say stuff online like the majority of gamers have no use for more
than 8 gigs of memory. Frank, stop. I
don't think he's going to though because he's been killing the PR game since
2019. Killing it dead. Speaking of
endings, Mozilla is killing two services it previously acquired. the
cross-platform bookmarking service Pocket and the fake review detector
FakeSpot because they're choosing to invest in what moves the internet
forward, not back. And the way people save and consume content on the web has
supposedly evolved, or at least the
content has. Made up studies show the internet is now about 65% Google VO
videos. Pocketeers have until October 8th to export your saves as a simple
list of links unless Kevin Rose succeeds
in trying to buy it and presumably integrate it with the platform he
founded. DIG the other Reddit. And we
finally get to look at some of the wacky stuff shown off at Computex, like ASUS's
new 3000 watt power supply for professionals, which you can't even plug
in in most North America. And that's fine. I didn't want it anyway. Asus also
showed off a monitor that can reach 610 hertz. And I have to admit that's 10tz
more than 600. Thermmorites frozen creator is a vertical stricks Halo mini
PC that looks just cyberpunk and cool and I like it. What Ziggmatex Connect
Pro CPU cooler has basically a phone screen on the front that you can use to
run Windows. So, just take that and throw it
inside Chronommancy PC chassis with a
motorized side panel and you'd have two things that make me confused and a
little upset, which is exactly how I'll feel if you don't come back on Monday
for more tech news. Don't we have something
special? Are you watching other YouTube
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