The lead story for Thursday,
March 13
is where I'm gonna break down the biggest
stories in tech and AI. Today, I'm diving
into OpenAI's
latest push for influence in Washington with
the current campaign.
With president Trump revoking
Biden's
AI executive order, OpenAI
OpenAI
is making its case
for light regulations,
copyright flexibility,
and a stronger US
stance against
Chinese AI competition.
I'm gonna explore
what this means for the future of AI
development, government partnerships,
and, of course, the ongoing legal battles over
AI
training data. Everyone, welcome to the show.
And, we'll get into the induction here in
a few minutes. But, you know, this this
lead story
where OpenAI is is urging the administration
to remove guardrails for the industry is quite
amazing
and, you know, they've they feel they have
favor.
But I think there's gonna be a lot
of people that are going to absolutely scream
bloody murder
over over this proposal. Now they're not the
only ones that have submitted
this has come from a from a host
of AI companies,
but they've called for a copyright strategy that
promotes freedom.
Freedom to learn
and they're invoking this
for preserving American AI models ability
to learn from copyrighted materials. I I think
we we know already
that the Chinese have no such constraints. They
can train
on copyrighted materials and there's not a lot
of recourse,
for companies against,
Chinese state companies. It's just not gonna happen.
And, this proposal
to the US government
obviously is emphasizing
the the need for speed and AI advancement.
And, again, they're asking for a light hand,
from regulations.
They're also talking about
the dangers of AI coming out of China.
I think we can fully
be aware here the AI coming out of
China is gonna continue to advance and
I'm you know, those of you that have
used deep seek,
I I think you use at your own
risk in that regard
based upon everything I know about the Chinese
government.
But we know that when the president threw
out the executive
order
that,
president Biden signed in 2023,
which is titled safe, secure, and trustworthy,
and the subsequent issuing a new executive order
declaring that it is a policy United States
sustain and enhance America's global AI dominance,
which I think is important. I think we
need to be there.
He mandated that a AI action plan be
submitted
within a 80.
So, you know, OpenAI has been
close to,
you know, basically getting some more funding.
There's been found some weakness obviously with Deepsea
coming out and, you know, how much training
data is really needed.
But,
you know, OpenAI at the same time is,
you know, buttering up state saying, hey. We're
gonna we're gonna build
data centers in 16 different states.
But in his proposal,
OpenEye expressed a distaste for the current level
of regulation in AI calling for the freedom
to innovate.
And, you know, I've been using
AI a lot. It's been evolutionary for stuff
that that I've done for a while.
And
and I understand
what they want here.
So time will tell how this is gonna
play out.
But the company said its recommendations could allow
new AI service to be accessed by government
roughly twelve months earlier than the current
processes.
But experts
have expressed concerns that speedy government adoption AI
comes at the potential of safety,
which is true because, you know, what you're
putting in with government information
definitely needs to be siloed.
But I could see
in some instances, writing proposals, government contracts
analysis,
some of this is good.
Nothing against the government workers. There's some great
ones out there. But in some instances, I
you know, some of the stuff that's done
is
kind of redundant work.
But, this is an interesting move by,
OpenAI, and I think the biggest controversy on
this is gonna come from,
the discussion of,
you know, using
copyrighted material.
Time will tell. Time will tell.
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Hey. The studio,
again, cable came in. I got some feedback
on the last show. We're gonna move the
laptop up about four inches that will help
with a height of view on a few
things.
So that's on its way. A little lift
desk for this.
And,
I really,
Tuesday, I was I was down for the
count.
Just all of a sudden, the back just
went,
and I I just I could not navigate
for about twenty hours.
So, I'm I'm back. Back is,
is good.
But, one thing I've kinda found, working nights
and
maybe some of you that work nights already
know this, you you save a lot of
money. There's there's no reason to go shopping.
You know, you you get if you work
all night, you sleep half the day, you
get up, you make food,
you eat and you rinse, wash, repeat kind
of a, you know, it's it's here I
mean, it's exciting. I'm overseas
but, you know, I didn't leave the room
for, like, two and a half days.
So, yeah, kind of kind of weird,
but, the weather's here beautiful. I got a
little bit of sun last weekend and I'll
try to get a little bit more this
weekend.
But, hey, let's,
let's get into the rest of the stack
here. I got a good lineup of stuff.
Big news, you know, really Gemini is, is
on the move and it's something how many
of you have been playing with Gemini?
I have not.
But I saw this headline talking about Gemini
can now personalize search
base excuse me, based on your search history.
I thought,
If you enable personalization, Gemini will reference your
search history to enhance some of its responses.
And I thought, do I really want this?
The feature powered by Gemini two point o
Flash Thinking experimental model, and it will only
reference your search results if its AI model
finds it helpful. For instance, if you ask
Gemini about a restaurant
or travel recommendations, a chatbot will refer to
your recent food related searches
to provide
suggestions. And I'm not doing a lot of
food searches on Google per se.
I use different apps.
So it'll be curious to see how this
works.
And again, this is part of a broader
personalization
feature that that they're rolling out. But I
I do have a little
bit of concern
in
using
your search history. And I I've always said
that Google knows more about you
than probably your family members do.
So having that
all that
data being used in the AI.
Yeah. I I I don't I see a
problem there. I really do.
I'm I'm gonna have to look into this
deeper. I think I would be very, very
hesitant because I'm often doing searches on
competitors. I'm doing
looks at different things
and do I really want
the software to do that? I
I don't know. What say you? What's your
opinion? Geeknews@gmail.com.
At the same time, OpenAI
talked about, you know, changes to the policy
here in The United States. They've called DeepSeek
a state controlled
and calls for bans on p I PRC
product models. This is pretty bold.
OpenAI described Chinese ALI deep seek as a
state subsidized and state controlled and recommends the
US government considers banning models from the outfit
in similar People's Republic Of China supported operations.
The proposal,
the part of the submission, I guess, of
this AI action plan
claims deep DeepSeek model including its r one
reasoning model are insecure because DeepSeek faces requirements
under Chinese law
to comply
to comply here with
their ability
to,
look at user data and part of their
the terms of services, they will use
your
user data. So they may be on to
something there as well.
Kind of got these out of order. Gemini
Deep Research,
is also free now for everyone. So
give it a try.
Again, the research tool is getting huge upgrade
to two point o flash.
There will be now better reasoning and it's
it's now free for everyone with advanced users
getting
expanded access. So that's that's available. Should have
had that linked up a little better. Thought
I did.
Microsoft at the same time is facing FTC
antitrust probe over AI
and licensing practices and this could really shape
up the AI competition. We know that, you
know, Google is also facing some anti trust
stuff and then put potentially losing,
Chrome and maybe even Android at some point.
But,
you know, a lot of consolidation here.
So they're reportedly pressing ahead with this antitrust
investigation into Microsoft.
As part of the probe, the FTC has
issued a civil investigative demand,
requiring Microsoft to disclose extensive data on its
AI operations, including cost of acquiring data and
training model data back to 02/2016.
So
this is,
this is
more
impact where you say, hey. You might have
to go alone.
So we'll see we'll see where this leads.
Adobe today got hammered in the stock market
and I and you know, I'm a big
Adobe fan. I I use Adobe products heavily.
We we're we're integrated at Blueberry with Adobe
podcast,
Adobe,
Express premium.
So
I just don't believe that Adobe is going
to drop is is going to become that
irrelevant. There's still this huge need
for their tools.
But there's worries that in recent months that
the company is falling behind in
some competitors
and losing its advantage on AI.
I I think this is
curious. The company's analyzed rate current revenue from
AI contributed to a hundred 25,000,000 during the
period,
and nobody
expects the
that number to increase.
But he an analyst at Morgan Stanley said
that new disclosures of Gen AI contribution stepped
in the right direction, but that most investors
need to see a clear roadmap at the
company's investor meeting.
So
Bernstein's Mark Mueller recommended buying on the stock
road in a report that believe that Adobe
is an AI winner and that AI is
not replacing existing revenue streams. I I would
agree,
but boy, they definitely got they got whacked.
They had ingested earnings of $5.08
per share at 5,710,000,000.00
in revenue,
and, they did an estimate only 5.71
or 4 90 7 in earnings. So they
did better than what the estimate was.
So,
I guess that adjusted earnings per share
might have been the impact. I don't know.
Seems a little odd to me.
So as Zuckerberg promised, community notes is coming
to Facebook.
So testing begins on community notes in Facebook,
Instagram, and threads.
So,
if you're want to want to
provide feedback and say this is not true,
they said we will shortly begin testing community
notes across Facebook. We expect community notes to
be biased
be less biased than the third party fact
checking program it replaces because it allows more
people with with more perspectives to add context
and notes won't appear publicly initially
as they take time to ensure the system
is working pry properly.
They've got about 200,000
potential contributors
and that have signed up. So that tells
you people got a lot of time to
volunteer
to help Facebook.
Two hundred thousand people have said, I'll I'll
I'll help.
Here, me me me me.
They're already getting enough stuff. They they can
pay some people to do this.
So, again, testing begins.
For a first, a man has survived
a hundred days with a titanium heart.
This Australian man in his forties would become
the first person to leave the hospital with
artificial heart made of titanium.
The device
was used as a stop yet measure
or basically he did his heart a heart
donor was not available.
He went about a hundred days on the
artificial heart before he was able to go
back in
and get a,
a donor heart.
This is,
the Australian is a sixth person globally to
receive the device known as VIVA COR,
but the first to live with it for
more than a month.
So, you know, the odds of being on
this thing are not are not great.
One thing about,
IT
is
I have always told my team if something
is bad news, I I wanna hear about
it right away immediately.
I don't wanna find about it, a week
later.
I wanna know. Let's we'll make the adjustment.
But there's a lot of people scared out
there. 40% of IT leaders are scared to
admit mistakes due to workplace
culture, or fear. Two and five are scared
to admit a mistake
and men are more fearful. German and US
better than UK for IT leaders.
And this this to me is, you know,
this isn't this is not good.
With cybersecurity the way it is,
moving fast and things are changing quickly,
we need to make sure that our IT
people feel free to come and say, hey.
There's an issue.
Whether it was self induced or not,
it's it's really, really
workplace culture of fear is not good.
And with all these new tools coming out,
there's gonna be a lot more availability to
find stuff.
We're all not perfect.
That is for sure.
Meta is warning worrying of a security flaw
hitting open source type software.
Retype.
Retype has carried a flaw that allowed remote
code execution. So if you work with a
dev team
and that word free type
sounds familiar to you, make sure you tell
your team. I don't re recognize it. To
be honest with you, I sent it over
to my dev team and said, hey. Are
we using this?
You know, here's a heads up. So, they've
of course, they're all, it's late late on
the East Coast, so
they they probably will not see it tomorrow
morning, which is okay. But
shifting the topic here a little bit. IPhone
17 Pro
Max and
are really, you know, on the horizon here
and, you know, it's the latest greatest thing.
It's hard to believe we're up to iPhone
17 already, really, if you think about that.
But there's some rumors out there.
What will new iPhone 17
lineup look like?
It's, the iPhone 17 Airs to match app
Apple's Ultra laptop designation,
and open source
that's giving out intel that the iPhone 17
air will be equipped with a basic a
19 chip and will only have a single
camera. So,
very light model.
Each
of course, there's gonna be improved cameras and
all kinds of other stuff, but the iPhone
seventeen's
Air seems to be the one that most
people are talking about. Of course, iOS 19,
that, a redesigned camera app, of course, they
already really screwed up the the picture app,
might point to more drastic changes for the
operating system. Early in March, Bloomberg also backed
the assertion that an iOS overhaul is in
the works.
There hasn't been a notable overhaul of iOS
for several generations here and it could be
exciting to see
Apple pushing the envelope. Your time will tell.
So,
you know, we'll all
just wait for the next iteration of
the iPhone.
Microsoft is warning folks about a new phishing
campaign impersonating
Booking.com.
So if you get an email, if you've
if you order stuff through Booking.com
or have experience with them or don't,
be very very careful out there. Okay?
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Google messages just fixed some serious issues with
receiving photos and videos.
So I did not know there was an
issue, but apparently some of you have been
having problems with pictures being sent.
So,
and they're slow to load.
They show up blurry for a minute
before the actual,
user can actually open them. I've seen that
with with,
with iOS as well. So I don't think
this is anything that is completely limited to
Google,
but, you may see an update there.
Meghan Markle's new Netflix show, well, they don't
have nice things to say about it.
Meghan Markle's new Netflix series with Love Meghan
has been met with criticism from podcast host
Kinsey Schofield. In an interview with Fox News
Digital, Schofield accused Marco of being self consumed
and tone deaf on the show. Schofield pointed
out Marco's interaction with guest Mindy Kaling saying,
you're standing next to Mindy Kaling and you're
not asking her her how she built her
girl boss empire.
It's true.
So
I haven't followed a lot of stuff on
on Netflix in a while.
Are you watching on anything on Netflix that
should get my attention?
I definitely appreciate
it. Google is, you know, they're not happy.
They they're asking Utah as the governor to
detail the state's app store age verification bill.
The company says the law poses real privacy
and safety risk to children. Really?
No. It doesn't.
It doesn't it doesn't add privacy and safety
risk.
You know, here's the thing.
You guys should do that.
Apple is big on privacy.
And why isn't Google?
So,
you know, no, I don't think this should
be vetoed. I think this one that should
go through.
I think all states should adopt it, to
be honest with you.
Maitre is trying to stop a former employee
from promoting your book about Facebook.
Wow.
Wow. You think about that.
Sarah Wynne Williams has researched details about Mark
Zuckerberg's
attempts to bring Facebook
to China and we talked about that on
the last show,
but they don't want this book to come
out.
He's he notched an early victory in its
attempt to halt a surprise tell all memoir
from a former policy executive
and arbitrator decided with the social media company
saying that the book's author should stop selling
and publicizing the book which went on sale
earlier this week. It's already out there. You
can't put the genie back in the bottle.
The drama stems from careless people new book
And
Facebook fired her in 02/2007
described
by its publisher as an explosive insider account
revealing some new details about Zuckerberg's push to
bring Facebook to China A Decade ago. She
also alleges that made his current policy chief,
Joe Kaplan, acted inappropriately
and reveals embarrassing details about
Zuckerberg's
awkward encounters with world leaders. Well, you know,
Zuck is a techie.
He's a nerd. He's a bit of geeky.
So I'm sure there's gonna be some awkward
moments.
Doesn't
say that, you know, anything that Facebook is
doing. Everything Facebook is doing is horrible, but
a lot of it is.
But,
you know, part of my
when when I stopped working for the government,
I made an agreement that if I was
ever going to write a book about my
JOB,
it would have to go through governmental review.
That that
it applies until I die.
Now I'm not in any mood to write
a book
about my my JOB.
That'd be fun to tell the stories,
but 90% of it would be redacted with
a big black pen.
So
is part of your
agreement with employers may require this type of
a agreement.
I don't know if this happens in
the civilian world or not,
but
definitely in government it happens. But definitely Facebook
is trying to get this shut down.
Printers apparently are spitting out nonsense after,
a borked Windows update. So so, you know,
someday we'll be able to get rid of
printers completely.
But this time, it's a % the fault
of Windows and Microsoft.
And,
Microsoft issued an alert that if a preview
under Windows ten and eleven sent out on
January 29 was causing some printers
to randomly print a string of unintelligible
text starting with post blah blah blah blah
blah blah and continuing with more blah blah
blah blah blah. Yeah. So in other words,
it just prints junk
and it's a rare it's a driver issue.
So did they get it fixed?
Yeah. They haven't fixed it yet. So
that's that's the, risk of running beta stuff
in early releases. You you may end up
with something that is,
that's bad.
You know, we've we wear a lot of
wearables.
Either you're wearing a Fitbit or an Apple
watch.
You know, they're real good at telling you
your heartbeat
and,
AFib now and all these things that they've
been approved for.
But blood pressure tracking could be the next
big thing on a future Fitbit device. That
is exciting,
to be honest with you.
Patent details of leaked hinting in a non
invasive way to do this.
So Fitbit's previous patent to measure the same
metric was rejected
and and the company has not give up.
The company wants to achieve a non invasive
way to measure blood pressure which could achieve
if
if the said wearable could
would carry both pressure and optical sensors.
Knowing what your blood pressure is on a
a day to day basis and knowing when
it's super high
is important. It really is. It allows you
to have the ability to say, okay. What
am I doing that's causing me stress? Did
I drink too much last night? Did I
not drink enough water?
Am I am I having a panic attack?
Do I have anxiety? And it gives you
the the option to breathe and think a
little bit.
I recently when I was back in the,
in Michigan,
I went to VA and and had a
checkup and,
I was running a little bit late. So
I huffed and puffed and kind of, you
know, ran a little didn't run, but I
fast paced a lot faster to the office
and they I was only in there two
three minutes and they
rushed me in to get my blood pressure
and of course my blood pressure was up
and I said, hey. Just give me five
minutes.
You know, it's kind of coming in here
in a hurry. I said, let's retake it
in five minutes and and see where it's
at. In five minutes, everything was fine.
So,
yep. Yeah. I I still need to to
walk more.
Thousands of iOS apps found exposed user data
and leak strike keys.
So server server
security
researchers at CyberNews found thousands of iOS apps
with hard coded secrets.
The majority of the secrets can be disregarded
as low sensitivity,
but, again, just weak code.
56,000
iOS apps discovered more than 815,000
hard coded secrets, thousands which were very sensitive
included directly to breaches or data leaks.
A secret is a broad term that includes
things like API keys, passwords, or encryption keys.
Being hardcoded means the developers added these things
directly in the source code. This general consensus
that they do it since it's convenient
and often just forget to remove the secret
once an app goes live and puts in
the appropriate hashes.
So
if you're having someone build an app for
you and you're you're tied to Stripe, you
may wanna ask that question.
T Mobile's raising rates today for more legacy
customers. You could see a $5 increase. Look
for that email to come across.
And Sonos is in the news for more
misses. Sonos has said to nix a streaming
box that could have rivaled Apple.
I don't know. Sonos has become kind of
my
love hate company at this point.
And, but they this, you know, that botched
app makeover that caused
top leadership changes,
but they announced that
the that they missed the streaming device.
The company's intern chief reported to employees that
the plans for the streaming device are not
on the company's roadmap for now.
The doom device would have served perks such
as content aggregation from different streaming platforms
as well as granular universal
search.
So I think we all know sit in
front of the TV is not necessarily healthy
for us.
And, you know, getting up and moving, but
they saying just a change, one change of
watching one less
one hour less of TV a day
is good for our hearts. And you know,
we can kind of understand why I think
any
any less sedentary
sitting on a couch
type activity is good
for you. The average American spends five hours
each day watching content on television.
A lot of it is now on YouTube.
And, of course, we're on a bed or
sofa.
I take it a habit now to watch
TV sometimes in a chair,
a sitting up chair versus, you know, because
I get on a couch and immediately I
wanna lay down.
So,
you know, don't be don't be afraid to
change your change your game plan up here
a little bit.
There's a new VPN service out there called
NIMVPN.
They claim to be the world's most secure
VPN.
Mhmm.
The VPN provider promised to protect against AI
driven surveillance and advanced
censorship.
NIMVPN
is efficient entering the market
and making big claims. It's available for iOS,
Android, macOS, Linux, and desktop.
What's it gonna cost you? Does it say?
They say they're untraceable
VPN and they have an example of how
they're untraceable.
I don't know. I just,
I think VPNs,
if someone really wants to find out about
you, it's more about protection of data. But
if someone's trying to track you down, I
I just don't think there's any protection anywhere
at this point.
This is the most disturbing
space news I've read in a while.
And
if you think about it, you go,
We've always wondered.
Okay. They're the Big Bang Theory.
The universe is expanding.
We don't know what it's expanding into.
We can't see
only so far into the universe.
So that's, you know,
what's what's at the wall?
What what is that?
What is the universe expanding into?
There's a hypothesis
that our universe is trapped inside a black
hole.
And it kinda as the article implies over
space.com, it kinda blows my mind
because they say the universe shouldn't be rotating
in the same direction.
And the only way it's rotating in the
same direction is because we're in a black
hole.
And I go,
This is an interesting read.
Probably the most interesting one of the day.
But it is an interesting hypothesis that we
are in a black hole.
But what's on the other side of the
black hole?
And we can see black holes within our
own universe. So what's
inside those?
Space is,
is absolutely
fascinating, isn't it? If you really think about
it,
there's so much stuff we just don't know.
Now speaking of
having a great
television,
what about having
on your wall in your living room?
What what do you think about having,
six of them?
Well, Samsung's got a bundle.
It saves you $6,000,
but you get
a whole bunch of different TVs where you
can watch a whole bunch of different things.
This is for the ultimate
experience,
about $11,000.
And these are the high end,
very high end Samsung TVs.
So, you know, if you're looking for something
if you had to have a tax return
coming, hey. This this might be the
the thing that you you you wanna do.
I I personally don't have enough wall space.
My wall, you know, is a little bit
flat and then it it it traverses upwards
because of the loft style open floor plan
I am on.
So,
if you have a big enough wall to
handle
that many TVs,
you know, fork out $11, go for it.
So Apple and Google are are definitely under
more scrutiny,
at this point.
A report from a UK interest buddy body
competition and market authority has found that Apple
and Google have too much dominance over the
mobile browser market.
And it's hard harming users who could missing
out on new features with 88% of Apple
users running Safari. I do not. I run
Chrome in Apple
and 77%
of Android users running Chrome. So I'm a
Chrome dude.
The Citro is not working well for consumers
and businesses. So
what's going to happen here? And,
again, we'll see if there's any type of
regulatory stuff that's put forth, but,
definitely something that's going on out there.
We know that AI models hallucinate and doctors
apparently are okay with that.
Eggheads are calling for concept rules
that govern machine learning in medical settings, but
no less than 25 tech and medical experts
respect the academic and health care organization, not
to mention a web search ad giant,
MIT,
Harvard Medical,
University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon, Seoul National
University Hospital,
Google, Columbia University, and John Hopkins have taken
it upon themselves to catalog and analyze
medical hallucinations
and mainstream foundation models with an eye towards
formulating
better rules.
The work published in a preprint paper titled
medical hallucination
in foundation models and their impact on health
care.
And in a supporting GitHub reports, there argues
that harm mitigation strategies need to be developed.
But the author states from the premises that
foundation models have huge neural networks trained on
a ton of people's work and other data.
And,
and given that starting point in the affiliation
at least once the researcher with the a
AI vendor, it's perhaps unsurprising
that it
that the burn it with fire scenario was
not considered.
So they basically said they have to just
take it into account.
But,
again, they say that
if a doctor is trained, they should know
that there's an issue with the hallucination. I
don't necessarily agree.
So again, I think the models will get
better over time.
But I know a lot of people are
using now that I just saw something on
a video where people are taking their genealogy
DNA reports
and running them through
a chat g p t and getting all
kinds of surprising data.
People that are doing
targeted
medical health for themselves personally. They come up
with their own
targeted medical supplements and everything.
So
I think times are changing. It's gonna get
real interesting. Toyota has unveiled the smartest car
yet called the FTME
concept, a concept vehicle.
I don't know if I drive one of
these, but the estimated range is around a
hundred kilometers.
It definitely is not going to come to
The US market anytime soon. Again, a concept
vehicle.
But again, these this is what car manufacturers
do. They float.
The idea this thing actually has solar panels
on it, which is a little bit weird.
But I guess maybe it's enough to help
charge
the, the system.
Very interesting,
statement
from Robolox CEO.
He says keep kids off Robolox if you're
worried its CEO has told
parents. Now
I don't have kids that I have I
have adult children, but I do have grandchildren.
And,
to my knowledge, neither them or none of
them are on Roblox at this point.
The site which is most popular in The
UK among young gamers age eight to 12
has been dogged by claims some children being
exploited explicit or harmful content through its games.
Its founders insisted the company is diligent in
protecting its user and pointed out the the
tens of millions of people have amazing experiences.
When they asked what the message is to
parents who don't want their children on the
platform, he said, well, my first message would
be if you're not comfortable, don't let your
kids be on it. And I agree. I
think parents have to take responsibility
for what their kids do online.
I I think that's really,
really, really super critical here, including
the mobile devices more than
more than anything.
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