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Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Plus, Microsoft wants to make its own suprintelligence and Apple is close to signing on Google’s Gemini for Siri.

Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao, and Dr Niki.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, November 6th, 2025.
0:07.7	We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand.
0:12.3	Today, Dr. Nikki tells us about e-ink screens made specifically for the max resolution of the human eye,
0:18.9	and Microsoft wants to make its own super intelligence.
0:23.4	Don't we all? I'm human Tom Merritt for now. I'm for now human who went to it now.
0:29.5	Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.
0:34.6	Microsoft's CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleiman. You may know him as a co-founder of Deep Mind, which is now owned by Google, wrote a blog post and did an interview with Semaphore, laying out Microsoft strategy in light of its revised agreement with OpenAI. Previously on Microsoft and OpenAI, since July 2019, Microsoft has had exclusive access to
0:58.1	OpenAI's newest models and has been the exclusive provider of cloud services. After last
1:03.2	week's revised agreement, Microsoft still has exclusive access to new models, but only until
1:09.2	2032. So they got some time, but they want to prepare. They also do not get access to new models, but only until 2032. So they got some time, but they want to
1:11.9	prepare. They also do not get access to any new hardware that OpenAI might make. And of course,
1:18.2	no longer the exclusive cloud provider to Open AI. But it's really that deadline of 2032 and the
1:24.2	no new hardware that is what Microsoft is addressing here.
1:28.2	The deal also has freed up Microsoft to create its own superintelligence team.
1:33.1	So they have created the MAI superintelligence team, Microsoft AI, superintelligence team, MAI.
1:40.8	Sue Eamon said it, quote, is going to become more human-like, referring to AI, but it won't have the
1:47.5	property of experiencing suffering or pain itself. And therefore, we shouldn't over-emopathize with it.
1:55.3	We want to create types of systems that are aligned to human values by default. That means they are not
2:00.6	designed to exceed and escape human control.
2:04.4	So really hammering the safety aspect and really throw in some shade on bots like chat GPT that
2:11.6	tend to be very flattering and very personable and kind of feel as if you're talking to a human.
2:17.4	Salaman emphasized that Microsoft will not pursue those kinds of conversational models or,
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