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In an effort to look cooler, I've been learning to read tech news off a teleprompter while wearing sunglasses.

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Unfortunately, it didn't work. I can't see.

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NVIDIA is closer than ever to owning the

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entire GPU market, according to a new report from John Petty Research, which

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has NVIDIA sitting at 94% of all discrete graphics card shipments. For a

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hot second, there was hope that competition would make this not so. In

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Q4 2024, NVIDIA had diverted production to data center GPUs, and AMD was able to

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hold steady around 15%. But not for long. AMD is now sitting at 5% while

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Intel is guarding that 1% market share they won last year with their life. It's

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sad, but as much as I love the idea of voting with one's wallet, the fact is

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that gamers see more value in the performance and features offered by

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GeForce. NVIDIA's action-packed 2009 film about a team of guinea pig

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commandos and its accompanying video game still available on Steam for $26.

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That's like a whole combo at McDonald's. This economy. Speaking of Steam, the

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Steam hardware survey appears to agree with this research. The RTX 5070 became

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the most popular card on Steam recently, though analysts suspect Chinese New Year

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internet cafe traffic and a Valve reporting bug may have inflated those

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numbers somewhat. But still, if you take a look at AMD's best card on the chart,

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it's in 17th place under a whole slew of

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NVIDIA's offerings. As a final insult, leaks suggest NVIDIA is planning a new

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RTX 5050 variant with 9 GB of VRAM. Not

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even a nice even 8 GB. 9 feels weird,

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but who's going to stop them, huh? Now, that's not to say AMD's out of the

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graphics game entirely. The newlyannounced nextG Xbox console, code

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named Project Helix, which we talked about on Game Link yesterday, runs on an

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AMD chipset and will play PC games, making it a PC, and so many people are

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going to buy this and then that AMD share of GPUs will shoot up. Okay, I

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know that's not how it works. Just let me have this. Anthropic is vowing to sue

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the Pentagon over the company being designated a supply chain risk. Now,

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this comes days after Secretary of War Pete Hegsith declared on Twitter that no

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contractor, supplier, or partner of the US military can do business with

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Anthropic because Anthropic CEO Dario Ammedday refused to allow the Pentagon

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to use Claude for mass surveillance of Americans and the deployment of fully

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autonomous weapon systems and that sucks. Amday responded yesterday to

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Hegsth on Anthropic's blog to say he doesn't believe this designation is

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legally sound and that he has no choice but to challenge it in court. Oof. I'm

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not sure if it's just me, but there's some serious heated rivalry energy

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coming off of Hegath and Amday, except instead of hockey, it's mass

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surveillance and autonomous murder robots. And I'm I'm not excited anymore.

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Despite going to war against the literal Department of War, Anthropic has found

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itself with some notable allies. Senator Kirsten Gilbrand called the Pentagon's

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move short-sighted, self-destructive, and a gift to our adversaries. And

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Microsoft has stated that after reviewing the designation, it will

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continue to do business with Anthropic, which is good news because Anthropic is

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going to need that business. Now, that according to the AI industry sugar daddy

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and shovel salesman Jensen Wong, NVIDIA will be holstering the money gun. it's

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had pointed at the AI bubble. It shoots money. Hang said at a Morgan Stanley

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conference this week that NVIDIA's recent investments in both OpenAI and

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Anthropic, 30 billion and 10 billion respectively, are likely to be its last.

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And the whopping 100 billion OpenAI NVIDIA deal that Wong announced last

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September is officially dead. I guess that announcement about investing up to

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hundred billion uh was just something that Wong said in the heat of the moment

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and he never really meant it. So, Anthropic might just survive, but XAI is

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in real trouble, according to CEO and melting wax sculpture Elon Musk. XAI

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just failed to block a California law passed in late 2024 requiring AI

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companies to publicly disclose what data they used to train their models. XAI's

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arguments cited everything from trade secrets to free speech to the fact that

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people would just be kind of bored by all the stuff in the disclosures and

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like wouldn't even want to see them anyways. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough

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to convince US District Judge Jesus Bernal, who said XAI failed to show the

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law would force them to reveal any actual trade secrets and that the

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company traded in frequent abstractions and hypotheticals instead of real

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evidence of harm. The lawsuit will continue, but XAI has to comply with the

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law in the meantime, which could see Musk sharing information he'd rather

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Open AI had no knowledge of. Information like who our sponsor is. Why do they

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Little fun fact before we head into the quick bits. I was joking before. We

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don't read off a teleprompter. We make up the script as we go. Okay? None of

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this is real. So, hm, let's make up

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something about how Apple is now blocking US from downloading Bite

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Dance's Chinese apps, even if they have a valid Chinese app store account.

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Before the Tik Tok US entity deal was reached, Apple had listed 11 Bite Dance

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apps that would no longer be available in the US starting January 19th, 2025.

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And it looks like that policy is now being enforced for the apps that weren't

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covered by the deal, which include Duen,

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Dubau, Fanky, Novel, Flip Cut, Hypic,

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Lark, Quank, and Goth. Banning apps

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seems bad. However, these are apps you think about so little you didn't even

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realize two of them were made up. And I guarantee you it's not the ones you

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think. One thing that's luckily not made up is that Apple Music will be rolling

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out transparency tags for AI generated music, labeling tracks across four

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categories depending on how much AI was involved in making them. The catch, it's

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entirely optin, meaning labels and distributors only have to disclose the

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use of AI tools if they feel like it, which is great because record labels

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have such a long and storied history of being completely honest about

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everything. This is totally going to work, guys, and it will absolutely fix

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the platform 100%. The first MacBook Neo benchmarks

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just hit Geekbench, and since the $599

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laptop runs the same A18 Pro chip as the

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iPhone 16 Pro, the scores are nearly identical, sitting just 61 points ahead

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in single core and 327 points ahead in multi-core. According to Tom's guide,

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that puts single core performance well ahead of the M1 MacBook Air. No doubt

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partially thanks to the newer 3nanmter process, though multi-core is roughly

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the same. We've now got iPhones that are more powerful than MacBooks from a few

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years ago. So, we're putting those phone chips back in MacBooks, which may be now

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one of the best bang for your buck options on the market from Apple. Times

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are wild. Wikipedia editors have discovered that a nonprofit called the

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Open Knowledge Association has been paying contractors to translate

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Wikipedia articles using ChateBT and Gemini, which is against Wikipedia's own

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rules. Unsurprisingly, those translations have been stuffing articles

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with hallucinated citations, fabricated sources, and paragraphs pulled from

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completely unrelated material. Wikipedia's response was to keep using

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them anyway, but with stricter oversight. The OKAS's fix. Deploy a

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second AI to check the first AI's work. If you hallucinate a hallucination, is

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that hallucinception? Should probably ask Chat GPT. And Roblox

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is rolling out a realtime AI chat filter that doesn't just block profanity, it

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rephrases it. So instead of your messages appearing as a bunch of

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hashtags when you call someone a naughty word, the AI rewrites it into something

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civil while preserving your original intent, like turning hurry TF up into

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just hurry up. Much better. The feature was developed with Roblox's Teen

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Council, a carefully selected group of teenagers who inadvertently became wise

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beyond their years after being groomed on Roblox. So now when you announce to

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your Phantom Forces So now when you announce to your Phantom

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Forces lobby that you will in fact end their bloodlines because of what they've

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done, the AI can translate that internal rage into something how about how you

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don't have to have kids to lead a fulfilling life. And I guarantee your

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life will be fulfilled if you come back on Monday for some more completely

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unscripted tech news that we say out loud as soon as it pops into our head.

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And thank goodness. Uh could you imagine if all of this stuff was true? Um,