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Highlights

🤓 Meta's AR Glasses Demo Crashes, But the Tech is Still Sci-Fi

Discussed at [00:02:03]

Meta's live demo of their new AR glasses with neural wristband had a couple of huge fumbles and the vids of the problems went viral.

First a presenter trying to make a steak sauce got caught in a loop reminiscent of using Siri…and then blamed the wifi. Then Zuck failed repeatedly to pull up a video call. The terrors of live demonstrations!

Kyle's take: Yes it was embarrassing, but the viral videos and laughing are missing the point. The neural wristband picks up signals between your brain and hand - you can write text by moving your fingers as if holding a pen. That's legitimate sci-fi technology.

This is like Musk's Cybertruck window breaking - just because the demo failed doesn't mean the tech won't get there. Google pre-records everything because they like their demos to be slick. At least Meta had the guts to go live - and reap the whirlwind…

In five years we might look back through our AR glasses and say "that's when it started” and we’ll all have forgotten these mishaps. It’s easy to point and laugh, especially at early versions of technology. The first mobile phone was ridiculous. But chances are you are reading these words on one of its descendents.

Source: The Verge

💪 Huawei Unveils Chip Tech to Break Nvidia Dependence

Discussed at [00:22:49]

Day after China banned Nvidia chips, Huawei announced "Super POD" tech that can link 15,000 graphics cards together - directly competing with Nvidia's NVLink. Their chips are less powerful than Nvidia's, but clustering them gives China the compute power needed for AI training.

Kyle's take: Don’t poke the Dragon.

China's message is clear: we don't need your chips. Beijing has banned the purchase of Nvidia chips and Huawei immediately announced their version of NVLink. The timing is deliberate - announced while Trump's touring the UK bragging about US AI dominance.

The problem for Nvidia? China controls the raw materials for chip manufacturing. They could throttle supply and leave Nvidia scrambling. Yes, Chinese chips are weaker (that's supposedly why DeepSeek R2 is delayed), but they're catching up fast. And this clustering technology brings them closer to being level. If you ask me: competition's good - it pushes everyone forward.

Source: Asia Times

🌐 Google Finally Puts Gemini in Chrome Browser

Discussed at [00:13:42]

Google's adding Gemini directly into Chrome - can work across tabs, integrate with Google Docs/Sheets, and handle complex tasks in the background.

Kyle's take: Half the world uses Chrome, so this potentially makes Gemini the de facto most-used AI on earth. They are on an absolute streak right now!

Why did they wait so long? Probably the antitrust case - no point launching if you might lose Chrome. Last week Google found out that they were not having to divest Chrome. Now they're safe, boom, AI everywhere.

Source: Google announcement

🎵 Massive Attack Pulls Music from Spotify Over Military AI

Discussed at [00:32:34]

Massive Attack removed their entire catalog from Spotify because CEO Daniel Ek invested €600 million in Helsing, an AI military drone company where he's also chairman. The band cited "moral and ethical burden" of their music funding lethal technologies.

Kyle's take: I had no idea Spotify's CEO was chairman of a military AI company called HELSING. A seriously ominous name. Most go for something palatable and innocuous sounding like Palantir to sound unexciting.

Props to Massive Attack for bringing attention to this. Fun fact: piracy is also rising again because streaming services got greedy. Gen Z is buying old MP3 players and pirating music instead of using Spotify. If the money's going to AI drones is this the worst thing…?

Source: The Guardian

Member Question: "Give me one fantastic example of what ChatGPT can do"

Kyle's response: Two days ago I took a photo of my bookshelf - too many books! I have a problem!

I asked ChatGPT to create a learning plan, sequence the books, suggest YouTube videos to fill gaps, and recommend a project. It asked clarifying questions about my goals, then created a complete curriculum based on resources I already had, plus pointed me to a new Microsoft course on visual models. That's synthesis, not just search - Google can't do that.

And here’s a related bookcase example!

This question was discussed at [00:28:51] during the live session.

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