The lead story today
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OpenAI
unveils Operator,
an AI agent
in Research Preview
for preview Chat GPT Pro users
in the United States.
This browser based tool automates tasks like
filling out forms, ordering groceries, and planning trips.
By interacting with web interfaces, it combines GPT
4 vision and reasoning,
can solve correct and seeks users approval for
sensitive actions.
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of GoDaddy. We definitely appreciate it. Thank you
so much. Hope everyone's doing well. Glad you're
back with me. I tell you,
I got done with the show on Monday,
which was rough
and I'm looking at the camera. I'm looking
at the screens. I'm like, oh my god.
I was so out of focus. It wasn't
even pretty. So if any of you joined
us
and watched the show on Monday and saw
the blob,
I I do I do apologize.
I re I really do.
But tell you, I've been fighting this bug
all week. The head cold is,
yeah, we're gonna say
90%
and, you know, but I was coughing and
hacking so much
that now my my back is just is
just killing me. So just one thing leads
to the other and, of course, I was
very very close
and on the sore throat range and luckily,
I, you know, I survived,
and did not,
it hasn't gone full blown, you know, inflamed
throat. So I'm here,
ready to knock a show out for you
and,
thank you all for for being online. We
do want to,
talk about our insiders. We'll do that a
little bit later in the show and those
that have you that have been using a
modern podcast apps
as
well. But I tell you, once in a
while, we, we get lucky here and the
lead story tonight
is is directly from Geek News Central and
it's a story about OpenAI
and,
what they're
what they're doing here.
OpenAI has released this research preview, an AI
agent called operator. Now it's gonna cost if
you have to be on their pro plan
at 200,
yes, $200
a month,
but, it's a it's one of the first
agents
and,
it,
combines,
GPT 4 vision capabilities with advanced reasoning
to be able to interact with websites.
So,
you know, this very, very soon,
is gonna get to the point where
I can probably give it a bunch of
sources and it'll go out and help build
a show. I don't wanna you know, I'm
not gonna Kirk is still safe, but at
some point, I I could see
where if I trained it well enough,
it it could do some of those functions.
Time will tell on where all this is
leading.
I know that, this week, I've
been reviewing,
some scripts that we've been writing for some
YouTube videos we're gonna create
and I've been very very careful to make
sure the team
hand wrote
the scripts because I I want to make
sure it's natural. It's not using those kicker
phrases,
and
it's a big job. It's a big job
writing scripts
and, I can see where someone would want
to
cheat a little bit.
But I I mean, it's so so straightforward
with the team. I said, hey. We we
can't
do that because people will smell
the AI in the air,
if and, obviously, we're gonna have a team
member
that is going to be recording it. So
it's, you know, we're gonna have a human
in the loop, but
I still didn't want,
the script to be done by by AI.
And,
so,
but I tell you, I've used I use
AI in a lot of other things,
that is for sure.
And,
now that I've kind of built my
my doppelganger
and fed it, you know, ears of my
writings and different stuff like that, it's it's
pretty good. It gets pretty close
to to hitting the mark. It it really,
really does. So I think that
it's gonna be much harder
going forward to see what's real and what
isn't. So you can always guarantee
that, this show will be hosted by a
human
and,
with all my
all my
inconsistencies
and everything else that goes along. Wouldn't it
be boring to listen to a show where
the the person's perfect
every time? Don't don't wouldn't that get old
pretty fast?
I I just think it would and
there goes my nose. And where did I
put my Kleenex? Of course.
I have a couple left here. I took
it to the other room. That's what I
did. So
you guys saw me if you guys were
watching the show the other night, my nose
was just running like crazy. I've been pretty
good all day. I don't know why I
just decided to start now. I guess because
I'm talking a lot.
Let's move on to the next story. Comcast
has a new $70 streaming bundle, has live
sports news and Peacock,
but it's only available for certain customers.
Now
why are they doing this?
Launching Thursday, company's offering Xfinity
Sports and News.
Again, a package that include more than 50
channels and ad supported Peacock premium subscription. Viewers
can watch NFL, MLB, NHL, MLB, and college
games
along with TV shows.
So, you know, I am not
again, take the sports out. I I don't
care. I don't need any sports channels. I
know some of you do, but for me,
you know, it's almost like you can't escape
any of these bundles with,
without,
without getting, you know, hit up for sports.
By the way,
are any of you watching the Dune series
on I think it's on Max. Have you
guys any of you watched that?
Not bad.
Not bad at all, ladies and gentlemen.
Google and Samsung are collaborating to bring spatial
audio
experience for more users. They're working in an
open source spatial audio format, and I keep
hearing about spatial audio
where it surrounds you.
Do you really want
my voice to surround you? I'm already in
your head
as if you listen to this show on
earbuds,
so I just can't imagine
being around you.
But consumers' audio listening experience has come a
long way,
and, of course, they are seeing a gradual
shift from stereo sound
experience to spatial audio.
So
I I guess
it's it's almost like the days of
I've told you guys about this before and
I barely can remember it now. It's about
a box I had that would turn AM
into FM and it would super hetrodine and
it was all it's just it was it
was wild.
It was just some scam.
Someone had put a box together,
you know, and, I don't know how much
money I I spent on it, but
it it really didn't. It I think it
just split 2
it split 2 mono channels, and I don't
think it did any I don't think there
was any offset or anything like that, but,
yeah, that was back in the, whoo,
probably the seventies. Yes. I'm dating myself.
SpaceX scrapped a flight as a plane entered
the launch space seconds before liftoff.
It was skirting the edge.
Apparently, it was a Delta Airlines flight on
the way to Honolulu,
and, they didn't make quick enough of a
left hand turn
coming out of LAX.
So,
the FAA said, hey. You guys are gonna
be
prime zone to see the see the launch,
and, yeah, apparently, it was too close. And
with 11 seconds to go, they they scrapped
the the the launch.
So,
maybe SpaceX ought to be doing a little
more coordination,
as well. There's an article over in Digital
Trends talking about T Mobile.
Matter of fact, T Mobile had me do
a weird
a very weird survey the other day,
and it it was basically
it was kinda and I took it just
because I want to see what they're gonna
ask, but it was, who do you know
has you know, what service?
And America has satellite,
you know, has a satellite
carrier. Of course, I know T Mobile's got
this thing going on with SpaceX. I know
that's coming, but it looked to me like
it was a survey meant to
inform people
that soon T Mobile will be able to
be satellite connected.
But,
one carrier,
T Mobile, has outperformed others over the past
6 months according to data collected by
Speedtest.
The report which covers data collected between July
December found that T Mobile, the 3rd largest
carrier,
has emerged as a clear leader in overall
performance.
T Mobile provides media down speeds a 120%
faster than its closest competitor, AT and T.
Verizon largest carrier by subscribers count ranked 3rd.
These speeds are enough for Ookla, o o
k l a, to include T Mobile offers
the best mobile
gaming experience. I don't do any
mobile gaming so this really doesn't help me
at
all. This should not be a surprise at
all, but exclusive
from Reuters,
ByteDance plans a $20,000,000,000
data center
in 2025
mostly being spent on AI.
So
they're gonna do this in capital capital
expenditures.
They're privately held tech giant, which is, you
know, got about 70 days left here in
the United States before our deal has to
be done,
but they're going to, they're going to jump
into AI even deeper although they're saying they
have some stuff out now that will complete
with OpenAI.
That's what everyone says.
Meanwhile, Perplexity launches an assistant for Android.
So if you have an Android device and
you are a Perplexity
fan,
you can get this assistant.
It's an agent of sorts called Perplexity Assistant,
It uses reasoning search and apps to help
with daily task.
It's available Android devices,
and the company says is that it like
hailing a ride or searching for a song
because the search engine is very, very
powerful. So,
I do have an Android device so I
will definitely and I have a subscription to
Perplexity
so I will definitely be, be checking this
out. If you're a WordPress user, beware there's
a popular theme plugin. They have some
security risks out there.
Patchstack
found 2 bugs in a WordPress theme.
The bugs were addressed in the latest version,
but users are advised to disable the product
to limit
new
account creation
from Inspiree themes. So if you have an
Inspiree,
I n s p I r y theme,
be careful.
So signing data
patch that says Real Home is purchased.
Oh, so it's it's a plug in also
called
Real Homes. So
expiry themes has not
responded.
What else is going on here?
Okay. The theme and plug in in question
are called Real Homes and Easy Real Estate
by Inspiree Themes.
Real estate and easy real estate.
Both flaws allows malicious actors to elevate their
privileges to admin.
It's been installed 32,000
times
and
but
the the developer has not responded at all.
So it's it's in the wild and not
been fixed. So make sure you shut those
2 off if you have
something that sounds like that. Do the investigation
here. Come over to the website and grab
the link.
Faster braige excuse me. Faster
brain aging
has been tied to an x chromosome
inherited from your mother.
Are they referring to humans?
Says female mammals typically carry 2 chromosomes, 1
from each parent, and new study suggests that
the maternal X is linked to faster brain
aging.
Okay. They said mammals.
The chromosome passed from mom to offspring may
celebrate brain aging. The researcher highlights a potential
fundamental difference in how males and females brains
age.
The research was conducted in mice, but if
findings translate to humans, they could point to
sex specific drivers of cognitive
decline and, eventually, ways to prevent or treat
them. So so far,
the men
or the male mice,
basically go brain dead sooner.
I think a lot of women would agree
most of us are pretty
brain dead already. Anyway, what what say you?
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I do notice that we have
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Very scary thing for someone that had a
gaming mouse.
Gaming mouse had went up in flames nearly
caused an apartment fire.
Anyone that sees this mouse that just basically
melted would absolutely freak out. You would never
think
that that connected to a USB port would
would go that crazy.
It's a Gigabit
M6880x
gaming mouse
and the user who went by the u
username Loma Lynn shared images showing the melted
mouse burn marks on the desk and destroyed
mouse pad.
They recounted discovering the device burning with large
flames, which then quickly extinguished. So probably what
happened was that this got hot enough,
and
this is a mouse that's over a decade
old, so it's pretty
so not a spring chicken in the
in the mouse arena
and,
probably once the plastic got going, you know,
it it went going but,
no no mention on, what happened with the
computer
that it it was hit to hooked to.
A government is demanding answers from Apple over
iOS 18 performance problems. Now
we know that there were some performance problems
when iOS 18 initially came out,
And today, Apple has received a stern notice
from India's consumer watchdog over the performance issues,
by iPhone users after installing update. It's not
quite the same as Apple
deliberately slowing down old phones because iOS 18
will also affect the latest iPhone models.
The notice was issued by the Central Consumer
Protection Authority,
a regulatory
issue agency that oversees consumer grievances and violations
of their rights rights while also conducting
investigation
in issuing orders related to to recalls.
So, that,
was the situation and and Apple will have
to excuse me. Apple will have to
to to respond to that.
What's next in my stack here?
A record number of ransomware attacks in December.
NCC Group on Wednesday published its cyber threat
intelligence report for December 2024 and pointed out
the number of ransomware attacks seen
at the end of the year,
is the highest of any month since it
started tracking
the the activity.
The cybersecurity
ransomware attacks in December was 574
with a threat group called funcsec accounting for
more than 100 attacks or 18%
of
of the total.
And
the group,
whose member are likely inexperienced hackers appear to
be involved in both hacktivism and cybercrime.
So,
anyway, it's it's ongoing,
not surprising
whatsoever that these, these ongoing attacks happen.
There's a very weird article on digital trends
and it's talking about touch screens may hide
secrets about how we make decisions.
And when I saw this, I was like,
are they looking at our fingerprints on a
on a closed
device?
No. No. No. It has nothing to do
with that.
According to a research team at the University
of Alberta,
in the future, the moment the movements that
we make
on our phones could be tracked to inform
doctors about injury recovery.
The paper states that decisions require actions that
have an effect on the world. Measures
derived from movements, such as using a mouse
and control a cursor on a screen,
provide a powerful and dynamic
in this indices
or indicators
of decision making. Goes on to say that
touch screens provide more informative results for understanding
indecision compared to computers.
We can actually understand a a lot of
what's going on in someone's head by carefully
measuring
what's going on outside their head.
Craig Chapman, an associate professor who worked on
the research told sci.org,
participant use a Android smartphone,
smartphone, or tablet, and completed time task, which
involve making decisions, tapping and swiping to complete
tasks centered around what the research calls research
decisions,
where a choice of options were presented in
different areas of the screen.
We think touch devices are perhaps even better
for revealing
movement
signatures of decision making because you have to
move and interact in a in a more
realistic way. So
very, very interesting. Now, I could see
where this might be used for another reason.
Let's say that you are on workman's
comp and they're trying to figure out if
you're actually getting up, moving around, doing the
things that you're supposed to do or,
not supposed to be doing. And could they
use the data from your phone
to correlate that to your workman's comp?
As an example,
you're not supposed to be painting the house,
but yet the phone detects movements. It's up
and down.
It might be as indication that you're healthier
than you say you are. So,
interesting.
According to finance at Yahoo,
CEOs have a new skill to learn managing
AI employees.
Adjentic AI, which is the new buzzword this
year,
which makes decisions without human input,
is a hot topic, and AI agents promise
tangible benefits
but raise questions such as whether they should
get KPIs.
Business leaders now have to work out how
to manage autonomous spots alongside
human employees.
We're using AI to get faster and leaner,
but what happens when AI is just not
your tool but your colleague or employee?
So that's something to think about.
LATA CEO Sarah Franklin spent a lot of
time thinking about this. Our company which builds
HR software announced last year that was going
to treat AI workers like humans
by giving them official records and even putting
them through onboarding like a real human.
That actually humans weren't keen on the idea,
and she hit pause after backlash. Now why
would you onboard
them like a real human? You just dump
all you gotta do is say, here's the
52 documents in our training manual
and our company policy document that you have
to live by, except you get to work
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Working hours for you are different.
It it right now, all our interfaces
with AI is
through
a keyboard.
We're axing
acting AI or through an API. We're acting
we're asking
the AI to do things for us.
But when you set it up to do
a task, when you say, okay.
I want you to look at this every
3 hours
or better yet, tie it to a sales
system. Every time a a new sales comes
in,
ring that up, put a report, tell me
where that came from,
what they signed up for, what the show
of the name is. We can build personas.
It would it's gonna be pretty amazing
to better serve our customers, and this can
happen in real time as they're coming in.
And we can point them in the right
direction to have a better onboarding.
This is what
AgenTic AI is gonna bring for all of
us.
So
these are gonna be great tools, maybe a
little bit scary tools. That's for sure.
They would assume, you know, someone was
coming in and creating a show today called
Geek News Central.
Well, you would automatically assume that that person
just a little more technical than
the average Joe. So maybe you throw some
more advanced options at that individual during the
onboarding.
Whereas someone that's doing a podcast
about,
I I don't know, whatever topic, you can
set
the experience level to that level.
So
business owner, church,
news organization,
culture show, entertainment,
all could have a different
onboarding path.
Pretty exciting to think what the future would
hold.
Of course, the president was with
the Stargate
group,
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella.
Oh, actually, he wasn't there. It was the
Oracle guy and the guy from SoftBank were
all at the White House pledging $500,000,000,000.
Elon says, hey. They they don't have the
500.
They don't actually have the money.
And,
the initial pledges by Stargate Partners were about
a 100,000,000,000,
part of which is being invested in a
data center in Abilene, Texas, but Musk pulled
cold water and claims saying SoftBank is under
10,000,000,000 secured. I have that in good authority.
Later post,
a reply criticizing Altman says, Musk said, same
as a swindler.
So they all went back and forth,
and,
we don't know how much money all of
them have anyway, but, you know, 500,000,000,000
sounds like a good number. Right? Sounds like
a great number to invest
in AI.
Absolutely.
NASA's gonna fly rockets into Aurora Borealis to
find out what causes their unique mo moments.
Of course, Aurora Borealis is the northern lights,
so that is the plan. They're gonna shoot
rockets, fly rockets into it.
They're gonna do that in Alaska to attempt
to better understand
the Aurora Borealis
or AKA the Northern Lights.
So
isn't it all about magnetics
and particles in the air?
I guess what they guess that's what they
gotta find out,
So this is a little bit of a
weird one, and I think we've kinda covered
this topic. And, by the way, we we
I'm gonna show you guys this website, those
of you that are watching.
This is the Daily Mail. Look at all
the ads on this. Myers, The Rookie.
What else? Something Internet.
Some pop up down here in the corner.
Frontier. There's 2 there's 2
two services competing against each other and the
ability to actually even change the ads. It's
it's it's nuts what they've got going on
this page. But the the title of this,
post is
visitor
from outer space
may have warped the solar system. Well,
scientists have suggested for a while that something
caused
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to have a
little bit different orbit.
They said that prevailing solar system formation theories
indicate planets should have at least started out
falling perfectly circular and share the same orbit.
Well,
they run this through a computer,
and they say a mysterious
object, a visitor,
was about
how big? It was huge.
It flew as close as 1.69
astronomical units from the sun,
and that its
diameter woulda had to have been, like,
massive.
Does it say?
They don't say what size. All it had
to be is pretty big
and,
oh, it's an object 8 times more massive
than Jupiter.
That's pretty big.
Just kinda floating through,
you know, or speeding through, whatever may happen.
So that's how big
the object would have had to have been.
So,
not not a rookie in the in the
planet category at all.
Record shattering 20,000 mile per hour winds have
detected on a wild alien planet.
Yes. Wind circling a gas giant more than
500 light years away have been decked and
flowing at supersonic speeds
approaching 33,000
kilometers
or 20,000
miles per hour making them the fastest air
currents on any known planet.
Yeah. I think those are not gonna be
good landing conditions, and I don't think there's
gonna be very much on the surface of
that planet at all.
So, they looked at the spectrum of light
to do to determine that.
Meanwhile, Hubble
has discovered a mysterious
star in the Milky Way dubbed the Blue
Lurker.
Hubble's uncovered a star, of course, Hubble, you
know, look what it keeps on doing. It's
out there. It keeps creating great discovering great
science.
Dove the blue lurker, this mystery object spins
faster than it should
and no one knows why.
So,
anyway, this is a star that's in our
Milky Way,
so not too far out but they they
don't know. They can understand
why the star is spinning the way it
should.
You know,
everyone is freaking out and, of course, there's
all kinds of examples going on over the
net right now.
Everyone's freaking out about Elon Musk and some
gesture he made that some people are saying
it looked like he made the Nazi salute,
but yet you go through and there's dozens
and dozens and dozens and dozens of pictures
of all kinds of political people,
kind of, doing the same kind of motion
that he does. But some people on Reddit
got so upset, more than 100 Reddit communities
have banned users and posting links to x.
Critics, including some historians, said it was a
Nazi salute. Miss nurse Musk is dismissed as
saying comparisons with Hitler's were tired and dirty
tricks.
So,
x is not commented, but Reddit stress there's
no site wide ban on x links,
but yet some Reddit channels are
saying don't link to x.
Okay.
Don't raise your hand in the wrong way,
ladies and gentlemen. Be careful out there. If
you wanna know what's gonna be new on
Netflix, we have the link in the show
notes tonight. So everything new in February is
on the website.
LinkedIn, of course, just like everyone else, is
facing lawsuits over acquisitions that private messages been
used to train AI.
Lawsuit is seeking $1,000
per user among other fees,
and,
the Microsoft OHM job site is a great
look to position yourself as a standard social
media platform. I tell you, it's it's it's
got as much spam as any platform out
there. It just drives me crazy.
Every once in a while, a good contact
comes through, but you gotta filter through all
the other junk.
But,
so there's another lawsuit running.
A Tesla
charger
exploit has earned a hacker $129,000
at pawn to own. Pawn to own pod
to own. A total of $335,000
paid out on the second day of the
event
with the 382,750
were in the 1st day, bringing the total
to 700 and 18,250.
Oh, 335 was paid on the 2nd day.
On the 2nd day's total, 129.5
was earned for exploits targeting Tesla's wall connector
charger.
A whole bunch of people went after Tesla
chargers. There was about 300 grand given out
for that.
At Honda owned automotive 2025,
I guess it was the
automotive stuff was the target this year.
At last year's event, participants earned $1,300,000
for exploits again targeting Tesla's EV chargers and
infotainment
systems, so,
plenty of bugs abound.
How many of you'd like to have a
robot?
I'd like to have a robot that would
just, you know, if nothing else,
pick up after me.
I make myself a sandwich.
It would we put the lunch meat back
in the refrigerator, put the, you know, put
the mayonnaise, you know, and put the lettuce
away.
You know? Just something would just clean up
after me. That would be a perfect robot
to have.
Nothing more than maybe make the bed. That
would be kinda cool. Right? Or change the
sheets when when you know, when it detected
it needed to be changed.
I bet you the robot would change them
a lot after than we all do.
But there was a good article, good story,
from,
doctor Doom Robini
who says human aid robots may up in
economy,
and I I think this is true, especially
on the business side.
Evolution of human made robots that essentially follow
individual workers on the factory floor in a
construction site, even a chef in a restaurant
or housekeeper,
I don't think that's terrifying,
to be honest with you.
I don't know how the robot's gonna get
up my stairs though. I guess we have
to carry them up
but, the Human Aid robot market could reach
7,000,000,000,000
by 2050.
Be honest with you, if you had a
robot that could be your house cleaner,
would you would you would you have one?
I don't know how one would get around
here without tripping because, to be honest with
you, I got stuff packed in so tight
now,
adding the studio
and then kinda readjusting everything. Everything kinda got
cramped.
It it it this I'd probably come back
and
the studio would be in shambles because the
robot would probably fall and smash its face
and break everything in in between.
So there would have to be some serious
exclusion zone, maybe even exclusion zones around the
liquor cabinet. Right?
You don't want the robot drinking your liquor,
you know, or mistaking it for, cleaning materials
or something.
You know,
time will tell what's gonna happen with this,
but I think it'll be cool.
I guess ChatGP went offline for a little
while and people were freaked out.
Down detector
showed more than 10,000 people report that EI
chatbot, which was made by OpenAI, was not
working in the UK on today. Oh, it's
Thursday.
OpenAI said a status page was of infillment
effects at 15:0:9
GMT,
so
no comment on the outage, but when you're
doing this leading technology,
it's likely
gonna happen. They opened up a new,
API today,
a new model.
We are talking about it. So,
next week, I'm excited to be able to
be implementing some of that on some of
the stuff we're we're doing at Blueberry.
PowerSchool. How many have heard about this? If
you have children in school, maybe you know
about this. PowerSchool hack keeps getting worse. 62,000,000
students now thought to be affected.
More than 9,000,000 teachers are also affected. The
victim are looking in United States, Canada, and
elsewhere. So,
apparently, the hackers stole 62,000,000,488,000
records
of all kinds of personal information, so your
kid's Social Security and all that stuff that,
normally, you don't want
leaked out has
been put in these hackers' hands.
The Wall Street Journal, which I don't have
the ability to read very many articles a
month, but I able to have this one
goes back and talks about the OpenAI Stargate
deal
and about a shift away from Microsoft, which
is interest, very interesting. Now Microsoft said they
were investing
some money, but I don't know how much.
But Microsoft's assets run the opening a Stargate
announcement follows months of tension between the companies
and signals a new era
in which the longtime partners will be less
reliant on each other.
Again, Sam Altman, Oracle's Larry Ellison, SoftBank's, Mayoshi
Son,
and President Trump discuss how AI could create
jobs and even cure cancer, and I believe
that.
I could I think the medical field is
is very open here, but this is a
good, I guess, my 1 or 2 reads
a month I get get for the Law
Street Journal. If you can't load it, I
I apologize, but,
they're just wondering if, if Microsoft
is,
my god, Bloomberg. I have to click 3
things
before okay. What do I have to do?
Continue reading with the options below
or pay with a credit card. What are
the options below?
I don't wanna sign in. I don't wanna
create an account.
I'm already allowing ads on your site.
Oh, it just refreshed.
Oh, I don't get to see everything. Read
this article.
I still don't wanna register.
TikTok weighs non sale options,
which is interesting.
So
this is the first time they've said that
they may
base everything here in the United States, which
would get around
the law. This is the the issue. All
the American database stuff would be in America
and American servers. There's more to it, obviously,
but,
they're considering that. And I guess they've got
about
70
today is what? Today's Thursday so they have
71 days left.
There's a good art wired article about Subaru
Security Flog exposes systems for tracking millions of
cowers cars.
Now fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely
unlock and start
millions of Subarus.
More disturbing, they could also access at least
of the year's car location history,
and Subaru employees
still can.
Wow.
So, again, I've read my complimentary
article over on Wired.
You own a Subaru? What do you think
about that?
And here it is. TikTok owner, ByteDance, deep
seek lead, Chinese push in AI reasoning.
So, again, they released an update to us,
like, shop AM out of challenging Microsoft backed
OpenAI.
They say this is doobadoo 1.5
pro,
and
it claims it outperforms OpenAI's
o one in anime,
a benchmark test that measures how well a
models under respond to complex instructions. I
would hope not,
to be honest with you. So we'll see
what more is talked about this.
So this is gonna bring me to the
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