Macbook Neo, M5 Pro/Max, OpenAI backtracks, Meta Glasses Video leaks + more!

Duration: 10:16

Timestamps:

0:00 I'm just ASKING

0:18 Macbook Neo, M5 Pro, M5 Max

2:38 OpenAI manages Anthropic backlash

4:31 Meta Glasses videos exposed?

6:11 QUICK BITS INTRO

6:18 Windows 12 this year NOT

7:00 Pixels get Android desktop mode

7:33 Scalper bots making RAM crisis worse

8:17 'Coruna' iPhone exploits

9:10 Xiaomi has robot 'interns'

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

MAC ATTACK

Macbook Neo, powered by A18 chip, starting at $599

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

glam shot time stamps

https://youtu.be/u3SIKAmPXY4?t=49   (0:49-1:43) Glam Shot

https://youtu.be/u3SIKAmPXY4?t=103 (1:43-1:57)  Color Options silver, indigo, blush, and citrus

yaoi gagarin on X: "ok yeah pack it up microslop it's windowver" / X

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/electronics/apple-macbook-neo-preorder

A18 Chipset is powering a laptop for the first time, rather than being a purpose-built Mac chip.

https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/?modelList=MacBook-Neo-A18-Pro,MacBook-Pro-14-M5-Pro,MacBook-Pro-14-M5-Max

A18 Pro Chip comes with 6 CPU Cores (2 performance cores, 4 efficiency cores) and 5 GPU cores.

1 GPU core less than the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max running the same A18 Pro Chip.

https://www.apple.com/ca/macbook-neo/specs/

The 8GB of unified memory isn't upgradable, and memory bandwidth is limited to 60GB/s

SEGUE: The A18 is a new product, and the M5 Pro and Max ALSO have new stuff because they have the new fusion architecture and a new core type.

New chips: M5 Pro and M5 Max https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-debuts-m5-pro-and-m5-max-to-supercharge-the-most-demanding-pro-workflows/

They've got some surprising structural changes: new “Fusion Architecture” and a third type of CPU core

Prior Apple Silicon chips including the base M5, used a single-die design, the fusion architecture instead bonds two third-generation 3-nanometer dies into a single SoC using advanced packaging with high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnects

English: Instead of cramming everything onto one chip (which hits physical limits), Apple split the CPU and GPU onto two separate silicon dies and fused them together so they can scale far beyond what a single die could achieve, while keeping the unified memory architecture intact.

Those chips are available in the Macbook pro only

Super cores “the world’s fastest CPU core” [1]

“Testing was conducted by Apple in February 2026 using shipping competitive systems and select industry-standard benchmarks.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/m5-pro-and-m5-max-are-surprisingly-big-departures-from-older-apple-silicon/

Powerful enough to make more of whatever’s going on here: https://lmg.gg/k4BQV

EDITOR: I don’t care about the highlighted text; just record your screen while playing the video under it. Loop it a couple times

I want more of the goo, Feels like the secret life of alex mack

Macbook Pro with M5 Pro, M5 Max https://youtu.be/GriXfu4tL30?t=19

0:19 - 0:26 - top down of fingers on keyboard, then swivel shot around to side-view, text comes up: “Now with M5 Pro”

These are just re-freshes - keep this part snappy

the M5 pro(15-core CPU, 16-core GPU) and M5 Max(18-core CPU, 32-core GPU)

M5 Macbook Air https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

EDITOR: make sure it’s the US site

M5 Macbook Air video specifically mentions ‘starting with 16GB of unified memory’ ‘and 512GB of storage’, which seems crafted to apply to memory crisis

Apple was overpriced before but with the increase in PC prices we’re looking at a world where macbook is easy to recommend as the entry point

https://youtu.be/URwVV5tTJIA?t=26

0:26 - 0:31 - above text shown

Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-unveils-new-studio-display-and-all-new-studio-display-xdr/

6 products announced during a non-Apple event? Apple’s feelin’ SAUCY this week

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/03/apple-has-announced-6-new-products-so-far-this-week/

Apple Sauce joke

THE ART OF THE KNEEL

Sam Altman says OpenAI is renegotiating with the Pentagon after an ‘opportunistic and sloppy’ deal

https://fortune.com/2026/03/03/sam-altman-openai-pentagon-renegotiating-deal-anthropic/

Quote about him swooping in on friday: https://archive.md/6v7Ma#selection-501.0-505.99

NOTE THIS SHOULD MOVE DOWN BELOW THE WINDOWS CENTRAL ONE: Sam’s tweet https://x.com/sama/status/2028640354912923739

Follows backlash and ChatGPT boycott driven by weird Anthropic/DoW developments

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-backpedals-as-chatgpt-uninstalls-surge-295-percent

Hours after Anthropic was blacklisted by the govt, OpenAI announced deal that got DoW to, apparently, agree to terms that it wouldn’t agree to for Anthropic

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2027846013650932195

EDITOR: scroll up so we see both this tweet and the OP

Except it really seems like that’s NOT what happened - it SEEMS like, based on various insider and expert sources, that OpenAI caved to the DoW, and then made it SOUND like the DoW caved to OpenAI

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/887309/openai-anthropic-dod-military-pentagon-contract-sam-altman-hegseth

Quote https://archive.md/HAEH0#selection-1943.0-1947.162

OpenAI tries to get users to stay with GPT5.3 update which is ‘less cringe’

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/chatgpts-new-gpt-5-3-instant-model-will-stop-telling-you-to-calm-down/

https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2028893702865989707

PEEPING ZUCK

Regulator Contacts Meta Over Workers/Moderators Watching AI Glasses Videos (PEEPING ZUCK?)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

Quote: Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex,

“Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based Meta subcontractor, according to an investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and Goteborgs-Posten (GP).”

Original Source: Swedish report: https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

Quote: We See Everything

““We see everything – from living rooms to naked bodies. Meta has that type of content in its databases. People can record themselves in the wrong way and not even know what they are recording. They are real people like you and me”.

Endagadget : https://www.engadget.com/ai/metas-ai-display-glasses-reportedly-share-intimate-videos-with-human-moderators-135939855.html

Quote about accessing the terms of service

“However, Svenska Dagbladet's reporters said they needed to jump through some hoops to see Meta's privacy policy for its wearable products. That policy states that either humans or automated systems may review sensitive data, and puts the onus on the user to not share sensitive information.”

Meta AI terms of Service: https://www.facebook.com/legal/ai-terms/

Quote saying that Meta will review your interactions with AI: “In some cases, Meta will review your interactions with AIs, including the content of your conversations with or messages to AIs, and this review may be automated or manual (human).”

Editor: Sorry I can’t get a quote highlight to work here - would you mind screenshotting a highlight of the above sentence. It’s in section 2C

Meta’s response is to put the onus on the user

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

Quote: Don’t record it if you don’t want us to see it:

“The only solution the company offers for users who would rather not have their trip to the dressing room reviewed by a set of eyes they never intended to send the footage to? “Do not share information that you don’t want the AIs to use and retain, such as information about sensitive topics.” Basically, don’t record it if you don’t want a stranger to see it.”

The upcoming name tag feature paired with this mass collection doesn’t bode well for the public perception of meta’s glasses as not creepy: https://archive.md/yGeJi

Quote: https://archive.md/yGeJi#selection-1893.183-1893.301

QUICK BITS

LOST IN TRANSLATION

PC World translated an article from PC Welt based on literally nothing that somehow points to Windows 12 coming out this year.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/microsoft-rumoured-to-be-planning-launch-of-new-modular-windows-12-operating-system-with-a-floating-taskbar-later-this-year

Debunking the original PCGamer article before updates https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong

Translated PC World article

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3068331/windows-12-rumors-features-pricing-everything-we-know-so-far.html#:~:text=Editor%E2%80%99s%20note%3A,PCWorld%20executive%20editor

Original German PC-Welt article

https://www.pcwelt.de/article/3065260/windows-12-release-neue-features-preis-alle-informationen-hudson-valley-windows-11-nachfolger.html

PIXEL GOES DESKTOP

Google releases Android 16’s desktop mode to all Pixel phones, from the Pixel 8 and up - previously only available in developer beta

https://www.theverge.com/tech/888370/google-pixel-tablet-android-desktop-mode

Google forum post - 9th item in list, no pics

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/410742131/#:~:text=Desktop%20mode%20on,on%20a%20laptop.

Pixel 8 and newer models can connect to external display via USB-C  (desktop immersion)

Mode supports multi-window apps, keyboard , mouse and more

THE GREAT RAMGRAB

Scarcity in DDR5 RAM Fueled by AI Demand Sparks Massive Scalping Surge

https://datadome.co/threat-research/scarcity-ddr5-ram-fueled-by-ai-demand-scalping-surge/#:~:text=Key%20takeaways%3A%C2%A0,prices%20even%20higher.

DRAM bots reportedly being deployed to hoover up memory chips and components — one operation ran 10 million web scraping requests, hitting DDR5 RAM product pages every 6.5 seconds

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/dram-bots-reportedly-being-deployed-to-hoover-up-memory-chips-and-components-one-operation-ran-10-million-web-scraping-requests-hitting-ddr5-ram-product-pages-every-6-5-seconds

Good connecting/link story

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-now-shifting-hourly-as-smaller-firms-fight-over-scraps

CORUNA VIRUS

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS version 13.0 (released in September 2019) up to version 17.2.1 (released in December 2023).

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/coruna-powerful-ios-exploit-kit

Visual Timeline https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/images/coruna-fig1.max-2100x2100.png

A suite of US government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals (foreign spies and normal criminals)

https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/

Not Paywalled, above wired article -> https://archive.ph/vN8U5

https://iverify.io/press-releases/first-known-mass-ios-attack

THE INTERN-MINATOR

Xiaomi trials humanoid robots in its EV factory — says they’re like ‘interns’

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/xiaomi-humanoid-robots-ev-factory-.html

Link to Quote about interns

Quote text “The robots in our production lines weren’t doing an official job, more like the interns,” Lu told CNBC

Video of the robot doing the tasks: https://youtu.be/zxUUfsk4zLA?t=181

Probably just need a few seconds of them working on the car starting at 3 minutes in

More details about the process: https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/china-xiaomi-humanoid-robot-ev-factory

Quote describing the task

Quote Text “ In the task, the humanoid robot picked up self-tapping nuts precisely from an automatic feeding device and placed them onto positioning fixtures. In the next step, it coordinated with slide belt conveyors and automatic positioning to complete the automated tightening of floor components after integrated die-casting.”