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It's not just Google. This Week in Google hosts, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau, cover all of Big Tech every Wednesday. Listeners tune in for thought-provoking and entertaining conversations about AI, Internet memes, the future of media, and the latest emerging tech. You won't want to miss a minute.
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
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The Posters Will Rise - TikTok Ban, Changing Expectations for AI
Told You So: Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations
European Lawmakers Approve Landmark AI Legislation
TikTok Will Use Every Legal Tool to Fight a Forced Sale
ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick expressed interest in buying TikTok, floated the idea of partnering w/ Sam Altman and others
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
Karl Bode breaks it down at TechDirt
Ed's podcast episode about Musk's Uncharitable Charity
Elon boots a Don Lemon show after a tough interview
Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social
New Google Messages Feature Lets You Turn Blue Chat Bubbles Green (or Orange, or Purple)
Google's updated sign-in page appears to be rolling out widely
The Disruptors
AP launches e-commerce site with Taboola
Last pressrun at the LA Times
Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau
Guest: Ed Zitron
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The Righte to Hoose - OpenAI vs. Musk, Spain Boots Worldcoin Orbs
OpenAI and Elon Musk
Something Like Fire
Former Twitter Executives Sue Musk Over Unpaid Severance
Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
Life House CEO Departs After The Information's Report on Company
South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
Here Come the AI Worms
Open letter: A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation
Microsoft engineer who raised concerns about Copilot image creator pens letter to the FTC
Pixel phones just got next-gen call screening
Complying with the Digital Markets Act
GOOGLE PREPARES TO LAUNCH NEW APP STORE CALLED "APP MALL" FOR CHROMEOS
Google is starting to squash more spam and AI in search results
Google Maps is testing a feature that shows you where to enter a building
Google Business Profile websites are now redirected to Google Maps
Pixel feature drop: New productivity tools and advanced health features
6 updates to Waze to help you get around safely and conveniently
Satellite SOS showing up on some Pixel phones
classvsoftware/under-new-management: Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners.
Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site
Paying with VisionPro
When students use generative AI, it's "cheating." When teachers use it, it's efficiency....
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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They're Made of Meat! - Rollable phone, Bitcoin ETF, AT&T Outage
Gemini and Google's Culture
Klarna says its OpenAI virtual assistant does the work of 700 humans
OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit
Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI
Kids left disappointed by Willy Wonka theme park grift
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sued over a plane crash that killed two pilots last year
MWC 2024: Motorola's Rollable Concept phone laughs at your silly foldable
Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring as a way to 'simplify everyday wellness'
The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn't
New bitcoin spot ETF trading volume sets daily record, besting launch day
Supreme Court Arguments on Social Media Laws Are Scrutinized
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption
Third Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.
AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage
Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT
Jensen Huang, CEO of #Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
Doomsters write another letter
Wear OS is revamping notifications to improve battery life
Google brings Gemini to Messages and adds AI text summaries for Android Auto
Chrome's new AI feature can help you write on the web
Meta Wants Llama 3 to Handle Contentious Questions as Google Grapples With Gemini Backlash
Google Maps is finally making glanceable directions widely available
Some Kind of Heaven
Mom's first VR
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Good Thorp and Vie't On - YouTube Dominates, ChatGPT Goes Nuts
Introducing Molly White
Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform
End of an era: The phone book goes the way of the fax machine as it drops through doors for the very last time after almost 150 years
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business
Nielsen crowns YouTube #1 Streamer in America 12 months straight!
Untranslatable foreign words
Molly on Sam Bankman-Fried
Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.'s Hottest Start-Ups
Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate
New Google sign in
Waze new features
'Rat Dck' Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal
TikTokker vs her breakdancing bitcoin dad
Mathematical and Puzzle Fonts/Typefaces - Leo's Pick
chocolate 3-d printer
'I love to twirl the cord': the young people pushing for a landline renaissance
wiki edit wars
ChatGPT goes temporarily "insane" with unexpected outputs, spooking users
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Molly White
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Beat It for 15 Minutes - Sovereign AI, Obituary Spam, Gemini Ultra
Leo opens his copy of "Shift Happens"
Nvidia CEO calls for "Sovereign AI" as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value
Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form
The rise of obituary spam
Biden administration taps Gina Raimondo to direct new AI Safety Institute
University of Pennsylvania announces first AI undergrad degree
When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever
"Societal misalignments" could pose AI dangers, OpenAI CEO says
Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro
TikTok tunnel girl says project at Northern Virginia home is moving along
Everyone keeps asking me to talk about this Tunnel Guy so I'm finally doing it
New Mass Gmail Rejections To Start April 2024, Google Says
Google One AI Premium is $19.99/month with Gemini Advanced
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media
The Web Design Museum on Instagram
ohmygit.org
in Finland, Windows95Man is going to Eurovision.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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Guerrilla Gardening - Amazon's Rufus, Bluesky Opens, Toothbrush DDoS?
Apple vision pro talk
Your phone isn't listening to you: The myth and its origins
Bluesky Opens Up
Taylor Swift joins Elon Musk in trying to silence student who tracks celebrity jets
UMG Pulls it's music out of TikTok
The unlikely 3 million electric toothbrush DDoS attack
YouTube TV Number of Subscribers Revealed in Neal Mohan Letter
ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to form sports streaming service venture
Blazing Saddles 50th bday
Google Bard to become 'Gemini' on February 7 with Android app
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer'
Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot
Amazon debuts 'Rufus,' an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app
Did You Use ChatGPT On Your School Apps? These Words May Tip Them Off
AI trained on a baby's experiences yields clues to how we learn language
Elon Musk Almost Sold Tesla To Google for $11 Billion
TikTok's grammy
TikTok: Call the Raclette police
wkrp | Aw Phooey
ASCII Theater
This impromtu Punxsutawney Phil musical on TikTok!!
The rebuttal duet
Pew social stats
NYT 1985: "laptops are a small niche market, not a mass market.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent
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