Steam AI debate, Nvidia skips GPU VRAM, EU vs. tech scams + more!

Duration: 08:31

Timestamps:

0:00 Hola

0:10 Steam AI game labelling debate

1:46 Nvidia stops bundling GPU VRAM

3:09 EU's new tech scam rules

4:16 QUICK BITS INTRO

4:26 Intel could make Apple chips

5:13 AI won't replace Nvidia jobs

6:11 Apple Podcasts creepy behavior

6:47 Taiwan raids former TSMC exec's homes

7:23 Researchers discover 'pain switch'

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

THE A.I. OF THE BEHOLDER

Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production'

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/epic-boss-tim-sweeney-thinks-stores-like-steam-should-stop-labelling-games-as-being-made-with-ai-it-makes-no-sense-he-says-because-ai-will-be-involved-in-nearly-all-future-production/

Matt Workman https://x.com/cinedatabase

EDITOR: zoom in on his bio

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1993687499621728312?s=20

EDITOR: scroll up so we also see OP

Valve artist responds to Matt Workman: "like saying food products shouldn't have their ingredients list"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-artist-says-thats-like-saying-food-products-shouldnt-have-their-ingredients-list-as-epics-tim-sweeney-and-more-call-on-steam-to-drop-the-made-with-ai-label/

Valve artist’s tweet

https://x.com/ayi_sanchez/status/1993401276223328621

ARC Raiders’ AI generated content disclosure

https://lmg.gg/93WqN

EDITOR: show same Sanchez tweet again when I quote it https://x.com/ayi_sanchez/status/1993401276223328621

Tim Sweeney’s retort about shampoo https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1993890431462166818

NO CHIPS FOR YOU!

Nvidia reportedly no longer supplying VRAM to its GPU board partners in response to memory crunch

Toms Hardware: https://lmg.gg/OYiWE

Golden Pig Upgrade Weibo post

https://weibo.com/3219724922/Qf3WY4s2I?pagetype=profilefeed

EDITORl: click “translate” then screenshot

Techpowerup article: https://www.techpowerup.com/343363/nvidia-may-stop-bundling-memory-with-gpu-kits-amid-gddr-shortage

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-reportedly-halts-bundling-vram-chips-with-gpu-dies-for-board-partners/

Maybe you can’t buy real memory chips, but in Korea you can buy snack chips branded as “HBM Chips”, a collab between SK Hynix and 7-Eleven

https://www.kedglobal.com/food-beverage/newsView/ked202511270001

7 Elevens statement:https://lmg.gg/UVWXr

Commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDbzeA7n0o8

Weird quote:

https://lmg.gg/75mV6

THE EURO-BEAT GOES ON

Social media giants liable for financial scams under new EU law

https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-giants-meta-tiktok-liable-for-financial-scams-under-new-eu-law/

European Parliament

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251121IPR31540/payment-services-deal-more-protection-from-online-fraud-and-hidden-fees

https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2025/european-union-proposals-would-make-payment-service-providers-online-platforms-cover-some-customer-losses

Meanwhile, folding to US pressure to stop regulating US AI companies

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-bends-us-digital-policies-eu-ai-act/

French president Emmanuel Macron (Macaroni?) says Brussels is ‘afraid’ of tackling US Big Tech (There has to be a joke here somewhere about Macaroni and Brussel Sprouts right?)

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-afraid-of-tackling-us-big-tech-emmanuel-macron-says/

QUICK BITS

CATHARTIC REUNION

Leaks show that Intel foundries may get used for Apple's M7 processor, will use 18A node (Almost back to the glory days)

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/11/28/made-in-the-usa-intel-foundries-may-get-used-for-apples-m7-processor

Tweet:https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1994422001952555318

Alternative Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/28/intel-rumored-to-supply-new-mac-chip/

Alt source: https://www.theverge.com/news/832366/intel-apple-m-chip-low-end-processor

DEY TUK’R JERBZ!

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-finds-ai-can-already-replace-11point7percent-of-us-workforce.html

“Iceberg Index”

https://iceberg.mit.edu/

Somewhat related: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly asks managers discouraging AI use: ‘Are you insane?’ — assures employees their jobs aren’t at risk because of AI

https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/nvidia-jensen-huang-insane-to-not-use-ai-for-every-task-possible/

EDITOR: Youtube, Step Brothers, “You sound insane. Do you realize that?”

https://youtu.be/sez8O6je0xk?si=e72bzxfpSY4yyU-2&t=3

Nvidia: ‘We are not Enron’ https://www.theverge.com/business/828047/nvidia-enron-conspiracy-accounting

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-says-its-not-like-enron-in-leaked-memo-to-financial-analysts/

WHO TOUCHED THAT DIAL?!

Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts (bunch of weird religious stuff auto playing on random with malicious links, no comment yet from apple)

https://www.404media.co/someone-is-trying-to-hack-people-through-apple-podcasts/

Alt source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/11/28/apple-podcasts-app-hack-warning---what-you-need-to-know/

Alt source:

https://apple.gadgethacks.com/news/apple-podcasts-security-flaw-enables-device-hijacking/

THE RAID: TAIWAN

Taiwan raids former TSMC exec's home in trade secrets probe (it’s the guy who went to Intel that got raided, Intel says he didn’t give them anything)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/intel-denies-tsmc-allegations-that-executive-leaked-trade-secrets-2025-11-27/

Alt source:

https://financialpost.com/news/ex-tsmc-executives-homes-raided

Intel fully backs its controversial new hire that TSMC alleges took company secrets with him

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20251127VL207/intel-tsmc-legal-lawsuit-technology.html

https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/intel-fights-back-as-tsmc-sues-star-executive-for-trade-secrets

PAIN AND GAIN

A newly discovered 'pain switch' in our brains could unlock safer medications

https://newatlas.com/medical/brain-pain-switch-enzyme-vlk-safer-medications/

University’s announcement

https://news.tulane.edu/pr/tulane-scientists-uncover-new-pain-signaling-switch

Study itself