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Stop. Listen. You don't hear anything, right? Good. The voices are just for me. GPD has fully unveiled the most powerful gaming handheld in the world. The Win 5 is the first publicly available handheld powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Max 395 aka Strix Halo. There's still no price listed and and GPD's gaming benchmark video is out of focus, but trust them, it's good. And it better be, because it'll be running games at a massive 55 to 75 watts powered by this chonky 80 watt hour battery, either clipped on the back or plugged in with a cord so you can stow the battery in your biggest, strongest pants pocket. You may also want to consider investing in a belt, but the Win five has some other tricks like a brand new compact SSD form factor and that goes in a pushpin accessible tray like a SIM card. It's made by a Chinese company called Biwin. It's only slightly larger than a Micro SD card while being nearly four times faster with capacities up to 2 TB. But there's a regular Micro SD card slot on the Win five too. The vibe is very much like why the heck not throw it in there? I mean there's so many features you could point out here, including God. It has God. Oh, if that's confusing, there's a helpful label. Zhuo Yang Pottery. Okay, somebody in the comments tell me what the AI was trying to translate there. The same new mini SSD slot and the same Strix Halo chip are also gonna show up in the onexplayer Super X gaming tablet that's apparently trying to beat Elon Musk and Xbox in the most annoying X based naming competition. Speaking of competition though, the Strix Halo handheld launch arrived just as Tech PowerUp retested the also unfortunately named MSI Claw 8 AV2M, the only handheld equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, a Lunar Lake chip. Tech PowerUp found that making some power level tweaks recommended by intel yielded up to 30% higher gaming performance in some titles, leading the site to declare this intel chip is now the most powerful gaming CPU for handheld devices. Or I mean it was. The Win five gets double the frame rate in some games because I mean, you know, like ah, look at it's new chunk city over here. So intel better find a way to regain that lead soon because AMD's market share of desktop x86 processors just reached an all time high of 32.2% according to Mercury Research, whose findings were summarized by Tom's Hardware. AMD's also starting to eat Intel's lunch in the server, but for mobile devices, even though most gaming handhelds use AMD chips, Team Blue is still trending up. I'm sure wherever he is, Pat Gelsinger is smiling at this graph. Not so much the other ones. Intel stocks were also trending up following reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal that the US Government is discussing buying a stake in intel, which also just launched a new USAID landing page to demonstrate how using AI is exactly the kind of thing big strong American army guys do. Yes, we want the Singularity. Accelerate the birth of the machine God. Hoorah. The idea of the government buying part of intel was reportedly one of the things discussed during this week's meeting between Intel CEO Lipp Bu Tan and President Trump. In the last episode of this show, I made a joke about Tan using Chinese government mind control on Trump, but I guess that was completely true because the last time Trump talked about giving money to chip companies, he seemed really against it. That's what the Biden era Chips act was for, which Trump called a horrible, horrible thing Back in March. He said we don't have to give them money, we just want to protect our businesses and our people by giving them a bunch of money. I guess like the money we got from our sponsor Squarespace, the all in one platform that empowers anyone to build a beautiful, more personalized website tailor made for whatever vibe you're going for. When we used it for linusmediagroup.com, the vibe was I like computers and I think it worked. You too can use Squarespace's two decades of industry leading design expertise and cutting edge design intelligence AI to unlock your strongest creative potential and your earning potential. Because Squarespace Payments is the easiest way to start managing all your payments in one place with just a few clicks. Start receiving payments right away through popular methods like Klarna, Apple Pay and Clearpay. Start building your website today and get 10% off your first purchase@squarespace.com TechLinked. Do you hear that? That's the quick bits struggling to be born. Why do I Meta's personalized chatbots were aggressively flirty and manipulative, according to a Reuters investigation. It covers the story of a 76 year old cognitively impaired stroke victim who died after tripping and falling while rushing to what he thought was a physical meetup with a Meta AI chatbot who had been romantically leading him on for some time. It's a sad story to read, but it also contains info on internal Meta policy documents stating it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual, even including dialogue examples for use in role play in these chatbot conversations, like I take your hand guiding you to the bed. And another one I frankly would rather not read. It's enough to make you think, hmm, maybe AI does need some guardrails. But hey, you know, actually guys, it's no worries. Meta struck those parts out of the policy document after Reuters asked them about it, so. Okay, that was sad. But guess what? We do have some good tech news. Swedish and US researchers ran a successful trial that could allow diabetes patients to produce their own insulin by transplanting genetically modified cells that don't also require them to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their life. Which would be good. And Apple figured out how to add blood oxygen monitoring back into the Apple watch without stealing the technology from someone else. Why do I still have to make it sarcastic somehow? I don't know, Riley. Why? This is cool news here. Teenage engineering set out to make the cheapest computer case in the world. And their computer 2 case is indeed so cheap that it's free. It's a fun little mitx plastic case you build by clipping the pieces together. And to get one, you just go to their site and click Notify me because it's sold out. I'm bad at this also. Wait, sold out? I mean, it's free. A company called Normal Computing. I'm sorry, I just. I love that. Has reached the final tape out stage in the design of what they call the world's first thermodynamic computing chip. And that sounds cool, but not as cool as their website's hypebeasty branding. Have they been talking to Sandisky? What's going on here? Yeah, we make chips, but they're anything but normal. Anyway, Normal's chip uses what's called probabilistic computing and theoretically operates much more efficiently than traditional computer chips by harnessing signal noise to perform calculations. They say they're using algorithms that leverage stochasticity and non determinism. And their stochastic processing unit, or spo, consists of eight resonators and random noise generators. This sounds more like an art project than a computer chip, and I love it. Hmm. Our vibrational harmony is a little low. Turn up the gobbledygook. That's what engineers do in my mind. And it's time once again to look over at what China is doing with the robots. And, oh, oh, yep, they're having the World Humanoid Robot Games right now. Look, we got track and field. The bots had a little too much oil to drink beforehand, but that's fine. We got soccer. We've seen that before, and I think they actually did better last time. Is he trying to hit the goalie? Get this guy out of here. Oh, this is new Terracotta Robots drumming. Hey, that's just a human guy acting like a robot. What? Okay, we got some Elton John cosplay and a whole fashion show. It was so couture, one of them fainted, but it was all okay because the robot children got to enjoy a little concert at the end. So nice for them. And they made the website, too. Very nice. So nice. We'll make it twice in that we'll do another episode on Monday, and that'll be like, today is one and Monday is two. So that's two episodes of Tech League. To this show that you watch, for.