Snapdragon X Elite Reviews, Forbes goes after Perplexity + more! - TechLinked June 19, 2024

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

DON’T GET SNAPPY

Reviews/impressions of (some) Snapdragon X Elite laptops are in 

The only full-on “Reviews” cover the ASUS Vivobook S 15 and are mixed https://liliputing.com/snapdragon-x-elite-powered-pcs-arrive-today-and-so-do-somewhat-mixed-reviews/ 

Good, not great https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/06/18/early-impressions-snapdragon-x-elite-good-not-great/ 

Notebookcheck.net https://youtu.be/dT4MstOicfQ?t=388 @6:28

Vivobook S15 has the lowest-tier X Elite XIE-78-100 https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/pcs-and-tablets/snapdragon-x-elite

• EDITOR: scroll down and zoom in on spec table 

Windows Central notes that ASUS included a 45W variant so it’s 31% faster? https://lmg.gg/fkZ7a 

Dave2D liked it, his tests were structured kinda weirdly though https://youtu.be/rSx0WZfDbE0?t=293 @4:53

Laptop floating https://www.youtube.com/@Dave2D/videos 

• EDITOR - zoom in on the Snapdragon X Elite thumbnail

Gaming ain’t so good https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-laptops/emulation-proves-the-inevitable-achilles-heel-of-qualcomms-new-pc-chips-when-it-comes-to-gaming/ 

Copilot plus features like Live Captions are here https://youtu.be/W8fbSLeYK3A?t=65 @1:05

Do they need an internet connection? https://www.pcworld.com/article/2371549/surface-pro-2024-first-impressions-this-ai-tablet-needs-more-i.html#:~:text=Windows%20AI%20apps%20need%20an%20internet%20connection 

But not Recall https://lmg.gg/eTkNJ 

Where’s all the reviews? https://twitter.com/zacbowden/status/1803050279363023302 

Same day, Framework unveils RISC-V Mainboard for Laptop 13

https://x.com/i/trending/1803123315948576785 

https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing

May be another RISC-V laptop on the board

https://liliputing.com/sipeed-lichee-book-4a-is-a-cheap-risc-v-laptop-with-an-upgradeable-processor-module/ 

Meanwhile, Apple planning a redesigned, super-thin Macbook Pro 

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/16/new-iphone-macbook-pro-apple-watch-thinner-design/ 

iPad ad https://youtu.be/ntjkwIXWtrc 

 

PERPLEXING

Forbes threatens Perplexity with legal action

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/forbes-perplexity-ai-legal-action-copyright 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2024/06/11/why-perplexitys-cynical-theft-represents-everything-that-could-go-wrong-with-ai/ 

Lifted fragments and an illustration https://lmg.gg/PU7lc 

https://x.com/JohnPaczkowski/status/1799135156051255799

WIRED investigation claims AI-powered search startup being sued by Forbes is scraping a bunch of stuff and making a bunch of stuff up

https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/

- archived link https://archive.is/1469O  

Perplexity founder says Pages will “improve”, thanks for the feedback https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1799159732126794017  

 

QUICK BITS

 

LOOK AT ME. I AM THE APPLE NOW

Nvidia pulls ahead of Microsoft to become most valuable company 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyrr40x0z2mo

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

Trying to mitigate effects of slowing chip sales

https://x.com/anissagardizy8/status/1803096372221976725

By pressuring cloud providers to buy entire GPU racks instead of building custom ones https://x.com/amir/status/1803081391451857027 

 

WELL THAT’S JUST SUPER

Ilya Sutskever starts a new AI company

https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1803472978753303014

https://www.neowin.net/news/the-former-openai-chief-scientist-has-co-founded-a-new-company-safe-superintelligence-inc/ 

https://x.com/ssi/status/1803472825476587910

They have a website https://ssi.inc/ 

 

U ARE SPATIAL TO ME

What’s goin on with ‘spatial computing’? well,

Apple suspends work on Vision Pro 2 in favor of budget model

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/18/apple-suspends-work-on-vision-pro-2/ 

Meanwhile, Meta restructures Reality Labs into “Metaverse” and “Wearables”, lays off some workers

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24181420/meta-wearables-reality-labs-layoffs 

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/meta-laying-off-workers-within-reality-labs-division 

Xreal unveils a phone that’s not a phone for AR glasses

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/18/24180298/xreal-beam-pro-ar-glasses-usb-c-launch 

EDITOR: scroll to photo that says “The Only Device You Need” https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-beam-pro?variant=48965553586459 

 

PIXEL THIS

Pixels finally support DisplayPort over USB-C - desktop mode baybeeee

https://x.com/madebygoogle/status/1802775267619783056 

https://store.google.com/intl/en/ideas/articles/pixel-feature-drop-june-2024 

https://lmg.gg/xSDaG

 

KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

Japanese telecom giant Softbank to use AI to make angry customers sound calm

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/new-emotion-canceling-ai-tech-aims-to-shield-call-workers-from-angry-customers/ 

https://www.softbank.jp/en/sbnews/entry/20240607_01 

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15300914