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Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme looks like a strong performer. (Hot Hardware)

Given that it offers faster cores and 50% more of them when compared with the previous generation, that was expected.

It leads the chart in Geekbench, but then it's a future CPU being compared against currently available products, and Geekbench results are sometimes a bit quirky.

But it also leads the pack in BrowserBench, and in Cinebench 2024 single threaded, while losing by around 10% to Intel's 24 core 285HX and AMD's 16 core 9950HX3D.

Integrated graphics also look good - about half the speed of AMD's Ryzen 395, making them faster than any other integrated graphics solution... As long as your game actually runs which is by no means guaranteed.

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OpenAI has announced an Instant Checkout feature for ChatGPT. (CNBC)

Etsy's share price surged 16% on the news.
"Our vision for ChatGPT - and a lot of the technology we create, but especially ChatGPT - is that it's not just providing you information, it is also helping you get things done in the real world," Michelle Fradin, OpenAI's product lead for ChatGPT commerce, told CNBC in an interview.
Nuke it from orbit.

Now.
A particularly crazy person has built a working 5,087,280-parameter ChatGPT-generated AI model - in Minecraft. (Tom's Hardware)

The so-called Small Language Model, based on the TinyChat dataset, uses 439 million Minecraft blocks, and takes two hours to respond to a question even using a customised Minecraft server that runs redstone blocks and 40,000x normal speed.

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