Daily Tech News 27 July 2025

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that AI is not a licensed therapist, doctor, or lawyer and there are no legal privacy guarantees for its users. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Sam thinks there should.
  
  But not for any reason other than it would benefit him personally.
  
  
  
• AI is also not a programmer. (Mashable)
  
  Though to be fair it was Google Gemini this time that blindly deleted a user's entire project.

• In lighter news, ChatGPT also gave detailed instructions on how to join a cult of Moloch. (Yahoo News / The Atlantic)
  
  No, despite the attempt to make it appear that way, it did not give instructions on how to slit your wrists. It explained how to avoid slitting your wrists if you needed to draw blood from that area.
  
  It did give instructions on how to sacrifice large animals.
  
  And also a very direct allegory on the problems of abortion to which the writer was and remains completely oblivious.
  
  
  
• And then there's Microsoft Copilot. (Eye)
  
  "Open all the airlocks please Hal."
  "Sure thing Dave."
  
  
  
• AMD has announced its Threadripper 9000 non-pro lineup. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 24 core 9960X is priced at $1499, which is cheaper than the 16 core Threadripper Pro 9965WX.
  
  The non-pro models only have 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes and quad-channel memory, compared to 128 PCIe lanes and eight-channel memory on the Pro range, but for the 24 and 32 core models that's probably not a significant limitation.
  
  
  

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