EP-35 Elon Musk’s Ai Chip Shuffle 🚚, Openai’s Urgent Warning ⚠️, Apple Wwdc’s Ai Focus 🍏

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for wednesday, june 5th.

• elon musk redirects nvidia ai chips: a major shipment of nvidia ai chips has been redirected from tesla to musk's social media company, x (formerly twitter). this could delay tesla's plans for autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots, raising shareholder concerns and slightly impacting tesla's stock price.
• openai employees' open letter: current and former openai employees warn about the serious risks posed by ai and the lack of industry oversight. the letter calls for robust government regulation and enhanced whistleblower protections.
• apple wwdc preview: apple's upcoming worldwide developers conference (wwdc) will focus on generative ai and significant updates to ios 18 and macos 15. expect substantial changes to siri and various applications integrating advanced ai capabilities.
• ai chatbots outages: openai's chatgpt, anthropic’s claude, and perplexity experienced simultaneous outages. while services are restored, the cause is unknown, sparking speculation about possible infrastructure issues or overwhelming demand.
• intel's new ai chips: at the computex tech conference, intel announced the new xeon 6 processors for data centers. these chips promise improved performance and power efficiency, positioning intel more competitively against nvidia and amd.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow