Qualcomm Wants Your AI on Device - DTNS 5359

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2:17Huyen Tue Dao: This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, September 22nd, 2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you important context, and try our dear darndest to help each other understand. Well, today, Jason Howell reports in from Qualcomm's Big Chip event in Hawaii. Are billions of parameters on your phone attractive to you? Hmm, we'll find out. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm way to it now. Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

2:48Huyen Tue Dao: from Maui. Jason Howell has been at the annual Snapdragon Summit. Qualcomm flew you out there. I'm a little jealous. Are you not enjoying yourself? I hope. No, it's horrible. I would so much rather be in my studio in Petaluma. No, a big thanks to Qualcomm for sponsoring my travel out here. Any chance to go to Maui? I mean, hey, I'm all for it. Yeah, I don't blame you. But you get front seat. Well, I don't know if it was front row, but you get to be at the big announcement in person. Tell us all about what the new Snapdragons are that they announced yesterday afternoon. And it's not at all confusing that they have the 8 Elite Gen 6 and the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.

3:32One of them is extreme. Yes, one of them is extremer. We'll talk about what that actually means. But yes, the 8 Elite Gen 6 is the kind of next tier of flagship processor. they say the first mobile cpu to hit five gigahertz so you know crossing that um you know that nice round number uh target um but what does that actually mean because i was like okay five gigahertz like who cares it's about bursts of speed not necessarily constant speed so things like faster app launches on your smartphone reduced game stutter but it doesn't mean that suddenly everything is just screaming fast on sure you know long long for long times um they're focused on putting a lot more onto the chip to kind of get around the memory shortage that we find ourselves in.

4:19So on-device AI has to fit in four of five gigs of RAM, somewhere around there. And so they're basically trying to do more with the chip to kind of offset the reliance on RAM. And so that's, you know, the 8 Elite Gen 6, they announced a cool feature, which we've talked on this show about the Apple Watch and this ongoing transcription process or whatever out in the real world. They have something similar with this chip called Personal Scribe, which is opt-in, but it listens, indexes your conversations, identifies who's speaking, things like that. It seems like we're getting more and more of those features.

4:59So that's gonna be a real challenge.

5:01Huyen Tue Dao: And that's an on-device thing, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, very, very interesting. But, you know, Wi-Fi 8, more, you know, an improved modem. I mean, it's interesting being at an event like this because, you know, if you watch the keynote or whatever, it's so information dense. But really what it comes down to is bigger, better, faster, stronger. You know, it's always that way with these things. And to that end, there is the extreme version of the 8 Elite Gen 6, which is a tier above the regular flagship, as you can imagine. This is a first for Qualcomm breaking it out like this, you know, a faster GPU, more efficient, 40 % more efficient, whatever.

5:42But it runs 3 billion parameter AI models on device. And I think Apple's on device is like a 20 billion parameter. So, you know, there's a little bit of a, or sorry, not three, 30.

5:55Huyen Tue Dao: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought it's a pretty big number. Yeah, it's a huge number. That was my mistake. 30 billion on device. They did kind of clarify because it's like, OK, is the race now to completely remove dependence on cloud, on frontier models in the cloud? And they're like, no, that's always going to be there for certain tasks. That's always going to be necessary. But it is about doing more on the device for a number of reasons, privacy, security, you know, all the things. And yeah, just the fact that you're capable of storing that much on a chip is pretty crazy. Yeah, I think the fact that we've got two different chips here is also interesting because it's the same architecture, but they're squeezing more out of one versus the other.

6:44Huyen Tue Dao: Were you able to tell what the actual difference is between these two chips? I mean, the easy way to explain it is that like the Gen 6 is for your regular flagship, as we've come to expect year over year on Snapdragon top tier chips. The extreme is going to be for just that extra edge, right, for gaming, for AK video, heavier on device artificial intelligence processes, that sort of stuff. It is just kind of interesting, though, like, OK, so then is the extreme just the flagship and the regular elite like a step down? And like you said, they're built very much the same. Someone at a dinner that I was at last night kind of explained it to me that like a lot of times what and maybe this was just their conjecture.

7:31They're inferring that this is happening, but I thought it made a lot of sense. A lot of times when they build these chips and they test them and they benchmark them and everything, some of those chips automatically have the best of the best performance. Some of them, for whatever reason, are a step down. And instead of trashing the step down, they create a subcategory for it. They say, OK, well, then these are good for these things. And the really good ones that have been validated to be really good for those things, we go over here. So it's a way of maximizing their output.

8:00Huyen Tue Dao: Does the Xtreme have any cores that the Elite does not? Ooh, that's a good question. I don't know that it has extra cores, does it? It doesn't. Okay. Oh, wait, wait. Let's see here. It gets the AI graphics cores. I don't know if that's different than the other ones, though. I'm not sure that I have an answer for that. I apologize. Okay. Yeah. I will also say, just so you know, chips, not necessarily my strongest suit. So this has been a really valuable trip for me because I'm surrounded by people who live and breathe this stuff. And let me tell you, they are a passionate bunch. They love this information.

8:42So I'm trying to soak it up as much as I can.

8:44Huyen Tue Dao: And then the other thing, yes, for gaming, I can see that being a device for maybe handheld. Qualcomm would like to sell, you know, Steam decks and stuff, some chips. and 8K video implies not, oh, I'm going to watch 8K video. It implies this is for somebody who wants to capture the most resolution possible so that they can cut it down and work with it. Yeah. And that is a creator. It seems like 8K is these days kind of a creator focused feature. It gives you all sorts of extra capabilities around that that don't necessarily, like you said, have to do with outputting 8K video. But once you've got that, you have a lot of creative freedom to crop in and do all of these other, you know, make all of these other creative choices.

9:26I mean, the creator aspect of this is a really big deal. I know yesterday you talked about Adobe Premiere coming to Android, and that's kind of one piece of this, the APV codec being tied into it. This is going to be a really good chip for creators based on what it opens up for them.

9:42Huyen Tue Dao: Now, I know they also showed off the Xiaomi 18 Pro, which is coming to Beijing or coming to China on September 23rd, and we've talked about that one previously. So that one's getting these new Snapdragon chips. But we also, you got to see the Motorola Signature 27. Yeah, I got to see that in person. They announced this on stage, calling it their most advanced smartphone ever, they said, which is kind of surprising to me because Motorola has been around for so long. But I mean, it is their latest and greatest. So I guess to that end, it probably is. But it runs the Xtreme. So it's running the Xtreme chip.

10:16One of the first devices to run the Xtreme chip. Motorola, not always the best with updates, but they're promising seven years of OS upgrades on this and audio by Bang & Olufsen. The phone looks interesting. If you look at the camera bump area, it's like the way the camera holes are positioned. If you are afraid of holes, whatever that phobia is, this one's going to set you off a little bit. But I did see it in person. I didn't get to get my hands on it, but someone got to demonstrate it a little bit and show it off. And it looks like a really nice device. I love that Motorola is leaning in again to premium.

10:50They took a break there for a very long time and now they're getting back into it. I think they're just an important voice in Android smartphones. So I'm happy to see it.

10:59Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah. It seems like what Qualcomm wants you to take away and all of us to take away from this event is the Snapdragon is great for phones, but not just dot. Yes. Right. Yeah, that's true. That's that's absolutely true. I mean, great, great for phones, great for all different types of devices. I mean, and that is really one of the big themes that I saw from the event, you know, the CEO, Amon, was talking about this on stage. But Jen, just kind of the through line is that like these processors aren't just about smartphones. They're really about all different kinds of hardware. You know, different if you're in your car and you're running a Snapdragon chip on your Android Auto device and it's, you know, tied into the Gemini model, what they want is they want a future where all these devices give you the same as a user the same expectation the same output the same contextual kind of hook into your daily life that you're going to get on your smartphone you're also going to get it in your car you're going to get it over here it doesn't matter what device you're on all that hardware is capable of drawing from the same pool of context and information and capable of powering it all and yeah, it's interesting to see.

12:06Huyen Tue Dao: Well, Jason, thank you for braving the trip for us. Man, I know. This has been real hard, you guys. Real hard drinking the amazing coffee and eating the amazing food and sitting in the amazing sun. But I will do it every year if I'm offered the chance to do it. Well, fantastic. And of course, Jason will be back with us on Daily Tech News Show once he returns, should he return next week. and catch AI Insight because a lot of what you're doing there will be showing up there as well. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what this week's episode is going to be. I think I was initially thinking interviews and stuff, but I might just kind of bring a camera into the demo areas and really kind of show off what these hardwares are all about.

12:49So AIinsight.show.

12:51Huyen Tue Dao: Fantastic. Thank you, Jason. Thank you. All right. Well, unfortunately, we're a little jelly here not being able to be in Maui with Jason a little bit. Okay, but you know what we don't have to be jealous about is the fact that us at DTNS, all of us, even Jason in his little good coffee, sunshine, beaches world, gets to share in the wonderfulness that is you, the listener, that makes this show, DTNS, possible. So, with Maui in our hearts, we want to take time to thank Hitek Oki, Chris Zaragoza, Jim Hart, and Adam Reynolds. Mahalo.

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16:50Huyen Tue Dao: There is more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. Well, Gallup has published the early results of its survey conducted with the assistance of Microsoft of 140 countries' attitudes on AI. It has only completed fieldwork for 37 countries, but it found something significant. Most countries are optimistic about AI. Now, medium awareness is 81%, but median use is 43%, and that percentage does get smaller for frequent use. Of the people who are aware of AI out of those 37 countries, in 25, the majority expected it to improve their daily lives. In 32, optimists outnumbered pessimists. The most optimistic were in China, where 93 % felt it would make daily life better, followed by Vietnam at 91%, Singapore at 83%, and Malta at 71%.

17:49The most pessimistic was Bangladesh at 32%, followed by Egypt, Afghanistan, and Malawi. Now, that doesn't mean they are unaware. Across the 37 countries, the media expression of trust and accuracy was 36%. While feelings of optimism did not correlate with frequency of use, trust and accuracy did. People who used AI more frequently expressed greater trust in its accuracy. Now, the most worried about AI were in Western nations. The U.S. leading with 74 % saying AI makes them worried, followed by the Netherlands, Canada, and the U.K. Vietnam was the least worried, followed by Ukraine, Russia, and Bulgaria.

18:35So the heaviest users were most often the least worried about it. And meanwhile, in the Worried West, Pew Research Center found that opinions about data centers in the U.S. have grown more negative between January and August.

18:48Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, I think this is a fascinating look at things. I'm glad Gallup is releasing this ahead of time. If you're curious about Microsoft's involvement in this, Gallup is holding to its normal standards here. Microsoft is helping to inform them on what kinds of questions they might want to ask, but Gallup gets the final decision. And of course, Microsoft providing technology for this as well. So take that as you will. Microsoft is involved in this. But it's really interesting to me to see two communist countries, China and Vietnam, incredibly positive. And then, you know, countries with challenges like Afghanistan, like Malawi, more pessimistic.

19:30Huyen Tue Dao: So when I look at this, I look a little more like, oh, well, Bangladesh is also really pessimistic. And that nation is doing fairly well, at least middle of the pack. And you look at Singapore, which maybe not the freest country, but not a communist country, and Malta positive. It really does look like, I don't know, it's Europe and North America that are down on AI. And I don't know that there's an easy explanation for that. you could say like part of it is that the companies are in the United States. So that's going to make North America be affected. And maybe Europe is a little more focused on that.

20:12Huyen Tue Dao: And maybe that's why it's affected. Another explanation would be that Vietnam and China are oppositional countries, more so China, to the West. And maybe there's, you know, some information warfare going on that could affect this as well. Yeah. Yeah. We have talked before about at least some of the differences in approach and in approach in this AI age between the East and the West. And of course, with China emphasizing like, you know, open weight models and things like that. I did. This is just very anecdotal. This is just went on the Internet. It's a big, great big pile of salt with this. But I also wonder whether the application of AI and the focus on what people can and could do with AI is different between the East and the West.

20:56It does seem like I think I saw one trade show, at least one influencer, again, influencer tape, big grain of salt, at a, I believe, AI conference or trade show in China. And the presentation of it was that there was a lot more utility, like robotics, of course, and things like that, more maybe like different forms or manifestations of AI. And I wonder if that also influences it as well, whether there's just a different appeal and whether that appeal is better tailored to people's concerns. I just wonder that as well, because, of course, the perspective is different.

21:31Huyen Tue Dao: But yeah, there's not going to be an answer that says, well, this explains why it varies. Because another one that I could think of to throw out there is the idea that when you have a fairly wealthy populace, they are less likely to want things to change, to threaten what has brought them to that level. And that could explain some of the Western resistance to this. But then you start looking around and you see, well, Singapore is not, you know, particularly unwealthy, right? Or the UAE. So, yeah, I don't think there's a simple answer, but I think it's just important to look at these numbers and go, oh, it's not as simple as everybody hates AI.

22:17Huyen Tue Dao: And you will have a different perspective on this, depending on where you are, because the people around you kind of affect your own perspective. I was kind of curious, and this is maybe I'm not saying something, but I did think it was interesting, this observation that while feelings of optimism did not correlate with frequency of use, but trust does. And my thinking would be, well, wouldn't I be more optimistic about it if I trusted its accuracy, which is literally me as a human being right now, part of my trepidation with it, of course, being a person in the West. What is that, do you think?

22:55Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, I found that notable too, because you might think, oh, the more you use it, the more critical you are, the more accepting you are. But that's not the case. There are plenty of examples of places with high frequency of use that were optimistic and also the West where they have high frequency of use and are pessimistic. So that's why it doesn't correlate. You can't say, well, the more you use it, the more you feel this way about it. It's kind of all over the place. But the more you use it, the more accurate you feel, I think, is because the models are improving so fast. If you don't use it frequently, you're still judging it on a year ago when it hallucinated more and didn't do what you wanted and made up facts and made up citations more often.

23:40Huyen Tue Dao: And if you're using it frequently, you're judging it on the most recent models, which have gotten rid of a lot of those problems. And so that one seemed pretty easy to explain for me is like, oh, well, if you're using it, it keeps getting better. So you feel like, oh, no, it's more accurate. Whereas if you don't use it, you're still judging it on the less accurate models. Whereas the positivity versus the negativity is apparently unrelated to the use of it. That is actually interesting. Maybe that shows just, and again, more awareness of like the broader changes that it's not necessarily, even if AI was perfect, that we, I suppose, those of us that are in the worried West have more concern about it.

24:17the general impacts, not just whether hallucinations will make certain things worse or, you know, kind of counter that, but that there's something about something broader. We're all thinking about maybe the more broader things about whether it's right or wrong.

24:30Huyen Tue Dao: Maybe there is a, you know, the luxury of being able to worry about others versus being in a situation where you're like, no, I need to know if it's going to help me because my situation is bad right now. That is a thing. I mean, in the East, just generally speaking, big stereotype and generalization is that there is more kind of communal pluralistic societies as opposed to us here in the West. And I don't know, also, as you said, a lot of the AI companies are in the West. So maybe there's a more focus on that individualistic culture that we have and whether we worry about it or whether it affects our lens.

25:05Very interesting. But I agree with you, there's not really an answer here. It's super, super interesting though. And maybe there's something that we can all learn from each other on how different areas of the world and different countries are approaching AI.

25:17Huyen Tue Dao: This is, to me, the definition of DTNS's promise to give you context is like, hey, if you're out there thinking everybody hates AI, that's not right. So you should be aware of this for your context. And it may not change your view on things, but it's good to know that if you're going to make an argument, it can't be based on that because opinions vary. Absolutely. And they vary much more widely than I would have expected. Extremely widely, yeah. Yeah. YouTube held its Made on YouTube event Wednesday with a load of new features for creators and consumers alike. Custom feeds come into the YouTube homepage.

25:53Huyen Tue Dao: This will let you organize topics of interest across separate tabs. Basically, your own little mini algorithms that will automatically update. You can describe what you want and it'll pull in matching videos. That won't be the default view, but you'll be able to go to little tabs to get to it. That's across platform, web, mobile, and TV. You'll be able to respond with GIFs and comments. Hooray! As well as leave comments on the TV app now by voice. So you don't know you don't have to type out on the horrible remote situation. You can just dictate your comment. New channel memberships feature will create a more Patreon-like area.

26:33Huyen Tue Dao: That's my description for members-only discussions and posts. Hype is limited to three times a week, but you will now be able to buy something called jewels that will let you hype more often in a week. The direct message feature for video sharing will support group chats within the next few months. Shorts will now be able to be organized into seasons and episodes. This is a micro drama feature because micro dramas are skyrocketing. Oh, amazing. YouTube Live is adding support for real-time auto-dubbing. So we can just say like automatically dub Mian Huan into Japanese, Korean, Spanish, whatever you want.

27:14Huyen Tue Dao: It's also easier to co-host streams now. They'll have something called Live Showdown where your various viewers can try to push you up to win the live stream. uh there's also live creator matchmaking where you can just get paired up with another streamer you've never met before uh which is frightening uh youtube studio can help a b test up to three different cuts of a short uh and then go with the one that works the best it can also help you review older videos uh to help them reach new audiences dynamic thumbnails will let the system choose which thumbnail like you give it three and it'll choose which one is most likely to spark interest.

27:54Huyen Tue Dao: It can also automatically monitor your thumbnails for older videos and adjust those as well. The system can auto tag products so that creators can just earn money through available affiliate programs without having to go through and add the tags. Ask Studio is a feature in YouTube Studio right now. It's going to add personalized feedback on a video based on previous content and user comments. It'll also be able to suggest alternate titles, alternate thumbnails, offer advice for improving performance in other ways. That'll be available on mobile as well as the desktop. There is a conversational editing tool coming to YouTube mobile and YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app in early 2027.

28:35Huyen Tue Dao: So you can just tell it what to do. You'll still be able to edit manually, but you can do some of that Descript style stuff. Posts will be recommended from the Shorts feed and will come to the TV interface. That's a big for people who do shorts and microdramas. And we got a couple of things coming to YouTube Music. The Ask Music tool will be able to create a custom radio station, if you describe it, or control a music cue. If you're like, put this at the top of the cue, move this down, you can do that by conversational input. Podcast lineups will be offered with a curated weekly podcast summary.

29:09Huyen Tue Dao: And this wasn't at the Made on YouTube event, but in related news, Coachella has renewed its deal for streaming on YouTube for the next four years. So they will continue to do what they have done since 2011, which is stream all those Coachella sets on YouTube until 2030. Gosh, there's a lot. So much. Yeah, I know I ripped through a lot of that. But it's basically taking some of the AI smarts that Gemini has and applying it, sprinkling it here and there where they think it will have the most use. I do think custom feeds is really interesting. is because I think that we all get inundated and we all have, of course, multiple circles of interest and being able to curate that in a more refined way is nice.

29:51I would like to say as someone who is a big otaku and who loves both manga and anime, I really need to start filtering out people that are spoiling me on anime things by posting manga stuff, okay? I really, y 'all need to stop. But with custom feeds, I could just isolate that and not pay attention to my otaku feed for otaku. Yeah, until you're ready to go in. Yeah, I do wonder, what do you feel about the hype with jewels? Because I do think I love, I love the idea of hype, especially for creators that are say emerging creators or developing creators that I like the idea that I can help my favorite smaller creators out.

30:26I do worry about the idea of now adding in purchases to help with hype. Could this be, uh, manipulated? Misused, manipulated. Yeah. It

30:37Huyen Tue Dao: It totally occurred to me too, which is one of the nice things about hype is you only get so many. So you use them judiciously. But if now suddenly like, oh, I can buy a bunch, then you don't have to think about how judiciously you have to use them. Now, granted, not everybody's going to buy them. Right. But for people who do, you know, there's always going to be people trying to game the system. And I'm I know YouTube has thought about that. So they must have a plan in place to combat that sort of misuse. but it does complicate the situation, doesn't it? Would you ever, would you personally ever want to do chat roulette YouTube live with another?

31:16I mean, what do you think about that? I get that. I think a lot of YouTube is about engagement collabs. It feels like such a big part of the culture. So I see how this works in isolation. Does this feel you?

31:28Huyen Tue Dao: 27 year old me is all about this, right? It's a young person's game. Get in. Who's out there? Let's go. Uh, 57 year old me, maybe not. Maybe they'll let those folks, uh, do it, especially because I'm doing a more fine tuned thing, uh, when I go live, but I can see, I can see where this will be fun. Uh, you know, for, for people who have more wide ranging, you know, and, and just the, the people who are really dedicated to live streaming, right? Like in other words, I'm not doing a live stream because I think it will be interesting to my already existing audience. I am a live streamer, right? I think that's what that's for is people who the live stream is the definition of the kind of content they do.

32:11Could be cool. Well, tell you what, whether it's 27 year old, you 40 something year old, you 50 something year old, you or ageless, you, if you have any thoughts on this or anything else, guess what? You can get in touch with us on the socials at DTNessonX, Instagram threads, Blue Sky and Mastodon for TikTok and YouTube. You can find us at Daily Tech News Show. And I personally would take any microdrama recommendations because TIL microdramas.

32:36Huyen Tue Dao: Fantastic. Go check us out.

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33:43Huyen Tue Dao: Let's get to the quick headlines that make us smarter just by hearing them. Well, Logitech has announced several new products and among the highlights are the Pro X3 Super Strike Mouse with the haptic trigger tech hits. That's a big capital HITS for you, replacing microswitches coming October 6th for$200. The Pro X2 Rapid Gaming Keyboard with custom magnetic switches, which integrates with Logitech's key priority system, and that's available now for $230. The Pro X3 Lightspeed Gaming Headset with a studio-grade microphone and 70-hour battery life is coming October 8th for$250. And the Yeti 2 microphone with a 3D proximity sensor for automatic EQ and leveling, a 1.3-inch LED display with visual feedback for gain and direction, and an onboard denoiser to reduce background sounds is now available for$160.

34:44Huyen Tue Dao: Man, the Yeti just came out 17 years ago. I can't believe they're upgrading it already. I did not realize that Logitech had acquired Yeti, and I've been recommending the OG Yeti to people that ask, well, what microphone would you recommend for me? And I was like, the Yeti, like forever the Yeti. So I'm kind of curious whether the Yeti 2 will replace that recommendation. Yeah. You also get a little Yeti on the LED screen. That's cute. Nuh-uh, really? You do, yeah. Oh, bot. Thanks to Philly Code Hound for noting this next one on our subreddit. Discord is relaunching its age verification system. Settle down.

35:19Huyen Tue Dao: Discord will automatically sort you into adult, teen, or unconfirmed based on several signals none of which are your message or call content. The group will be indicated under your account status. It will not be shared publicly. If you are put in the teen category, you will face restrictions on what kind of messages and friend requests you can get from strangers. There will, of course, be restrictions on adult content and your full profile details will be restricted to your friends or some smaller servers. If you are in the unconfirmed status or you feel you are inaccurately in the teen status, You can verify your age with a credit card, smart wallet, age key, ID scan, or video selfie.

36:01Huyen Tue Dao: All data will be deleted as soon as confirmation is completed, and no video data will leave your device during confirmation. And Discord is very much hoping that you are not nearly as bad about it this time as you were last time. Can I say jokingly that, oh, wouldn't that be a nice compliment to be accidentally in the unconfirmed range? Oh yes, I just look like a teenager. Yeah, that will be very nice for you. Not me. PitPro Automation installed its first automatic tire changing system at a Cal Tire in Calgary. Say that three times fast. Cal Tire in Calgary. That's not bad. Which can swap, by the way, a full set of tires in less than 15 minutes.

36:43Two robots about the size of an oven use a robotic arm to pull off lug nuts and wheels, put on new tires, and put the lug nuts back on.

36:53Huyen Tue Dao: And by the way, this particular Cal tire said it's had a hard time keeping staff on because they opened a Panda Express across the street and everybody went to work there. So they need the robot. It's not replacing anybody's jobs. Yeah. Okay. I thought that was quite interesting. It is. Microsoft filed a patent that describes a process for showing you an ad when you pause a game and then giving you credit for watching the ad. And I must remind everyone, a patent does not ever mean a product. Might mean a product someday, but it doesn't mean they're doing it. But they could. Innovative. So innovative.

37:29Anyway, if you don't use Apple Intelligence and Mac OS 27, you can get some gigabytes back from your hard drive since it uses a local model. Tom's guide estimates it's between about 14 and 30 gigabytes. You can turn off Apple intelligence and settings and eventually get the space back. But Tom's guide recommends against manually deleting the files. Yeah, don't do that, y 'all.

37:52Huyen Tue Dao: Yeah, just turn it off and be patient. Just let it happen. I'm the least patient when it comes to that stuff too. So it's kind of a good reminder for me. If you're looking at the new line of Mac minis and Mac studio, Something to keep in mind is that the SSD is soldered in for the M5 Pro and M6 Mac Mini models. It was not in the M4, so that's a downer. The Mac Studio SSDs are not soldered, but keep in mind, you do void the warranty when you open the case. And the recommended replacement parts are only from Apple. So if you find third-party parts, your mileage may vary. All right, as if I needed another tracker to put on my wrist.

38:28But Bloomberg's Mark Gurman sources say that Apple has been developing prototypes of a screenless fitness tracker. The device is still in the preliminary phase. And if it moves forward, the world, it would debut at 20 in 2020 at the latest at the earliest. Sorry. Yeah, I got some time.

38:45Huyen Tue Dao: You got plenty of that. BBC reports that OpenAI will give the Ukrainian government access to its Daybreak program. That's the program that lets trusted partners access frontier models before the release to the public. OpenAI will reportedly not charge for the access. Well, CounterPoint Research estimates that smart glass shipments rose, wait for it, 236 % in the first half of 2026. Meta held 94 % of the market, followed by Xiaomi, Alibaba, each with 1 % for AR and AI glasses, ones with a display. Rokid has 41%, followed by Meta with 37%. 7%. We got a little more market parity in the ones with the display.

39:28Huyen Tue Dao: But that explains where we went from zero to backlash in the middle of this year, right there. Because it's all meta, and everyone suddenly started to have them. OpenAI announced general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models. The Sol model makes half as many mistakes as 5.6, and the Luna model, the more efficient model, can now match 5.6 Sol, the non-efficient model, at a hundredth of the cost. Geely introduced an EV charging technology that can bring a battery from 10 % to 70 % in four minutes and 30 seconds. Charging to 97 % took less than nine minutes. God, these fast chargers are getting fast.

40:12Huyen Tue Dao: Just three more quick hits for you. Buzzword alert. Be on the lookout for folks talking about TypeSafe's JEV model. They did a quick bit on the Attention Mechanism podcast if you want to get a little longer talk about it. It's basically a classifier. So when you give it data, it returns typed decisions with probability distributions and confidence levels. It does not generate freeform text. It's an LLM, but it's not doing a conversational response. A lot of devs are describing it as a smart function call. TypeSafe's documentation recommends using questions like, does this message convey urgency over more open-ended questions like, analyze this message and determine the best course of action.

40:53Huyen Tue Dao: But it's a more limited model that works better. Well, OpenAI announced it has created an independent group of nine mathematicians to advise it on how to release more than 100 solutions to open problems across most areas of mathematics. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton hosts the group. Yeah, that's a raging fire right now in the mathematics world. So having some premier mathematicians on board, even if it's non-binding, can't hurt anyway. And consulting firm Korn Ferry surveyed 16 ,000 professionals across all levels of organization. So C-suite on down to entry level in 11 major markets.

41:32Huyen Tue Dao: You're like, well, what's major? Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the UAE, UK, and the US. And in that survey found that 52 % of people surveyed felt that AI tools had increased their workload. Throw me in that 51 person. There you go, yeah. All right, well, we end every episode of DT &S with some shared perspectives. Today, John has more thoughts on our weekend episode about which cables to keep and which to get rid of. Yeah, in a world of all of this kind of news, sometimes just hearing Patrick and Roger talk about, hey, do I need to keep all those HDMI cables has been very palliative for people.

42:16Huyen Tue Dao: John wrote, this was great timing. Thank you. I just purged quite a few older cables and doodads. Yes, that's the technical term, I believe. And some tech I had slated to fix or update. At some point, I realized I had many of the same item and nothing with which to connect it. It was good to hear from the experts on their own journey. Great show. Thank you very much, John. And if you missed that, it was in the Saturday episode over the weekend with Patrick and Roger. And people loved it so much. We're going to get those two back to be the click and clack car tech folks of technology. Again, it's good stuff.

42:51I love it. Well, whether we helped you better understand or just clear out a cable drawer and anything else that y 'all are thinking about, we would love to hear it. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com.

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