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After licking the air like a lizard for some reason,
CEO Sam Altman made a few fairly big announcements.
First off, the company introduced what they're calling GPTs,
custom versions of ChatGPT built for specifics purposes,
that can be built, shared, and sold on the GPT store.
Don't call them apps.
Do not call them that.
Sam says he's still figuring out how revenue sharing will work,
but we do know building your own GPT won't require any coding knowledge.
You can build GPTs using GPT,
like parents editing their embryos' genes,
so the eventual child never disappoints them.
OpenAI also announced GPT-4 Turbo,
with a massive 128K context window,
meaning it could accept prompts up to 300 pages long,
an assistance API to help developers make series that don't suck,
price decreases across the board,
and perhaps most interesting to me,
Copyright Shield,
a commitment to pay legal costs for OpenAI customers
who get sued for copyright infringement over AI-generated works.
Similar promises are made by IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, and more,
at the same time that some of those same companies
are trying to make sure copyright holders aren't screwed over by generative AI,
which is now so pervasive,
you can use it in freaking Microsoft Paint.
Honestly, I don't care if little Mateo didn't know what he was generating on the family computer.
He's going to jail.
Google went to court today to defend itself from Epic Games,
who accused Google of anti-competitive behavior
concerning the Play Store way back in August 2020,
after three years of dramatic tension.
I can only hope this ends in a passionate makeout, but we'll see.
If this sounds familiar,
it's because Epic went through this whole song and dance with Apple already,
only to pretty much lose.
And if you have no idea what I'm talking about,
I made a tech longer on it.
Just save that for later.
Epic Games may have a slightly stronger case with Google though,
as there's loads of evidence
Google has gone out of their way to wall off their supposedly open garden.
But I don't know,
Google did publish a blog post on Thursday,
essentially explaining how they're actually right,
and they definitely don't make deals with companies
to stop Epic's attempts to compete with the Play Store.
So it's right there.
On the other hand, another thing that might help Epic get what it wants is
once again, leveraging the power of gamers.
Fortnite re-released the original island map on the weekend,
breaking its own records for concurrent players.
We need those guys on deck again
to flood the trials call-in line once more,
and implore the judge to subscribe to their YouTube channels.
It's the only way.
Your honor, I'm based.
You don't get it, Judge.
Epic is based on love sarcasm.
My family has been using the same Quick Bits recipe since 1964.
Except we took out all the asbestos and lead.
We did.
We did take it out, right?
It'll stick to your ribs.
It's good for you.
And your lungs!
Intel announced a while back
that they were changing the naming scheme for their core processors,
and now leaks have given us a taste of
how much getting used to that is going to suck.
Leaker MomomoUS posted benchmarks from Crossmark on Twitter,
I'll still call it that sometimes,
showing chips with names like Intel Core Ultra 9 185H,
which is thought to be the flagship notebook chip in the Meteor Lake family.
But don't get that confused with the Intel Core Ultra 150U,
which is part of the Raptor Lake U family refresh.
Both chips are part of what Intel is now calling First Gen Core,
after the 14th gen released.
And while I might agree that having less digits in the name is better,
I'm hoping this doesn't become a Xbox One, One X, Series X situation.
Just, please, be better, Intel.
MediaTek has announced its new flagship mobile processor,
the Dimensity 9300,
or as I like to call it,
the Density 9300,
because unlike other chips that use a combination of big performance cores and smaller efficiency cores,
the Dimensity 9300 will only use four big cores
and four ultra large cores for its processor.
Chonky though it may be,
MediaTek still claims a 15% increase in single core performance,
a 40% increase in multi-core performance,
and 33% greater efficiency over its predecessor, the Dimensity 9200.
The idea is to allow more AI processing to stay on the chip rather than the cloud,
in which case, bigger, might just be better.
Oh Lord, he comin'.
Oh Lord, he corin'.
Xbox has announced a multi-year partnership with InWorld AI,
a company with an AI character engine
they claim makes multi-modal characters,
meaning they can react to your speech and to visuals in-game.