• Now it's AMD's turn.  (Serve the Home)
  
  A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion in OpenAI in return for OpenAI spending $100 billion on Nvidia hardware.  Or some random amount - the scale is so absurd they're talking about graphics cards in gigawatts.  OpenAI is buying 10 gigawatts of graphics cards.
  
  Now AMD is sort of doing the same.  OpenAI is planning to buy 6GW of AMD Instinct cards and in return AMD has issued OpenAI a warrant for up to 160 million shares of its common stock, worth about $32 billion at current prices though since some of the shares wouldn't vest until the share price reaches $600 (from $200 today) it's potentially $100 billion again if the bubble don't burst.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?  (Anime by the Numbers)
  
  Because they fired everyone who cared about typesetting.
  
  And you're kind of screwed, because all the other streaming services either don't care either or relicense Crunchyroll.
  
  It sucks.
  
  
  
• SCOTUS to Google: Stet.  (Thurrott)
  
  Google requested a stay in the Epic Game decision, which went very, very badly for them.
  
  The stay was denied.
  
  Google now has two weeks to open Android up to alternate app stores and payment services, and stop even attempting to force this on developers and device makers.
  
  And I'm all out of popcorn...
  
  
  
• There's a remote exploit flaw in Redis that has been lurking quietly for 13 years.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Redis is typically run as a local caching service, not exposed to the internet, but researchers found 33,000 instances that were so exposed.
  
  Coupled with the recent sudo bug that could instantly give attackers root access on all those machines.
  
  
  
• OpenAI plans to allow developers to build apps that run inside ChatGPT.  (The Verge)
  
  There are an uncountably infinite number of ways in which this could go badly.
  
  
  
• There's a single-slot water-cooled version of Maxsun's Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo, just in case you want to fit seven of them inside a standard ATX case.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  And who doesn't want that?
  
  
  

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