This week in tech, the Browser Choice Alliance sent an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, demanding fair browser competition on Windows. The letter emphasizes that "enough is enough."
AMD unveils EXPO ULL and new Ryzen processors
AMD launched several new products: the EXPO ULL for lower latency DDR5, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and 7700X3D CPUs, and the RX 9070 GRE GPU. Intel unveiled the Crescent Island GPU with up to 480GB VRAM and the Xeon 6+ with up to 288 E-cores at Computex 2026.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang predicted that Marvell Technology will be the next trillion-dollar company. Meta scaled back employee keystroke tracking after backlash and patched an AI assistant exploit.
NVIDIA CEO predicts Marvell's trillion-dollar future
Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra with an NVIDIA RTX Spark processor and the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. The company also unveiled the Majorana 2 quantum chip, claiming a 1000x reliability improvement.
OpenAI faces a Florida lawsuit over ChatGPT safety and upgraded the ChatGPT memory system. The upgrade improved factual recall from 67.9% to 82.8% and accuracy over time from 52.2% to 75.1%.
Summer Game Fest 2026 took place, and Crystal Dynamics delayed the Tomb Raider remake to 2027. Reviews this week covered the DWARF mini smart telescope, GEEKOM Air12 mini PC, AMD RX 9070 GRE, Cuktech 10 Ultra charger, and the game 007 First Light.
AMD claims the RX 9070 GRE offers 22% faster performance and 26% better value than the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti. The AV2 codec can reduce average bitrate by 30-34% compared to AV1, according to VideoLAN's Jean-Baptiste Kempf.
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