Daily Tech News 17 July 2025

• Grok 4 is out and researchers at competing companies are mad that it has a girlfriend and they don't. (Tech Crunch)

  "It concerns me when standard safety practices aren't upheld across the AI industry, like publishing the results of dangerous capability evaluations," said Steven Adler, an independent AI researcher who previously led safety teams at OpenAI, in a statement to TechCrunch. "Governments and the public deserve to know how AI companies are handling the risks of the very powerful systems they say they're building. Without proper testing Grok 4 might answer people's questions, and then where will the industry be?

  Where indeed, Steve?
  
  Where indeed?

• Seagate is now shipping 30TB hard drives, priced at $600. (Serve the Home)
  
  You could already buy 30TB SSDs, but they cost closer to $6000.
  
  
  
• There's another good-but-expensive small Android tablet on the market now. (Liliputing)
  
  It uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU, with a 9" 2400x1504 OLED display with a 165Hz refresh. Weight is 370g which is a little chunky for a "small" tablet but not too bad.
  
  The range starts at $499 for the model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, with options at $649 for 16GB/512GB, and a top of the line model at $899 with 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage.
  
  And a fan, apparently. I could do without that.
  
  And apparently no expandable storage.
  
  
  
• Intel is reportedly working on an updated version of its upcoming Nova Lake CPU to compete with AMD's Ryzen Max range. (Video Cardz)
  
  The Ryzen Max 395 has a much more powerful integrated GPU than typical processors, able to compete with dedicated desktop graphics cards, at least cheaper models. It falls between the desktop 4060 and a laptop 4070.
  
  We have no idea yet what the Nova Lake AX range might bring.
  
  
  
• Scale AI has laid off 14% of its staff. (The Verge)
  
  Scale AI is not an AI company.

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