This Week in Google (Audio)

Craig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed." limitless ai brilliant.xyz Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles. Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Preemption Google tests stopping news links in California because of CJPA Whoops! Computer error leads to wrong couple getting divorced Hey, Paris: How Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding Crypto Trader Searched Web for 'Fraud' Before $110 Million Haul 'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers? Prophet Song Strands, the superior NYT game Cow magnets Vinod Khosla's tech-determinist TED wet dream Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Stacey Higginbotham Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: eufy.com joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT cachefly.com/twit

Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband Talking about the old internet Jeff's paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom First look at federal privacy bill Instagram Generated Almost 30% of Meta's Revenue in Early 2022 Elon Musk's 'self-inflicted wounds' and other highlights from a newly released deposition 5 Workspace announcements from Google Cloud Next '24 Fitbit app rolling out redesigned Sleep stats Google's Nest Secure is shut down — and you've got options besides ADT Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free The wonderful world of Taskmaster Also! A report from the teens at PS 47 Mario meets Pareto Suno music Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT fastmail.com/twit Melissa.com/twit

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2024 Why YouTube Decided to Take Over Cable Television YouTube is increasing the price of premium (Red) subscription by nearly 50% Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify? Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit 20 years of Gmail AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech Google is Bringing Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 and Circle to Search to More Devices Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Are Going 'AI-First,' Yum's New Tech Chief Says Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his podcast Apple sues former iOS engineer for allegedly leaking Vision Pro, Journal app details Very good by Katie Harbath: Digging Into Ten Overused Tech Tropes Hume, an "empathic" voice-to-voice AI chatbot Harvard Releases the Caselaw Access Project Ant: I streamed with Logitech's Mevo Core camera and it nearly beat out my $3,600 Canon Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: kolide.com/twig

Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running AI news that's fit to print How Google uses AI to improve global flood forecasting Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives access Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons Collective AI' expected to resemble Star Trek's Borg — only nicer (hopefully) Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79 Here's why AI search engines really can't kill Google Instagram co-founders' AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all Intercept sues OpenAI not on copyright but on DMCA Google Chat rolling out voice messages for Workspace Gemini in Google Messages beta rolling out for some Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point ELON MUSK FOUGHT GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE — WHILE PROFITING OFF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical [Exclusive] Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders; will launch alongside Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL Shine by Sunshine on the App Store Good by David Kaye on the risks of internet regulation Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts Tennessee Adopts ELVIS Act, Protecting Artists' Voices From AI Impersonation Apple's Journal app The fish doorbell 'Beyond our wildest dreams': How the Forward removed its paywall – and generated 37% more revenue New Google NY office has foot-washing station Sign o' the Times: Brooklyn apartment building to include podcast studio Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI bitwarden.com/twit

Matt Levine attracts online ire for column, 'Slorg Is Sorry He Burnt Slerf' AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering Sam Bankman-Fried Says 50-Year Sentence Only Suitable for a 'Super Villain' Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers' data was used for Gemini Mikah & Jeff react to nVidia event OpenAI is expected to release a 'materially better' GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam The Check Up with Google Health Big changes at Inflection AI & Microsoft From the mind that brought you 'Livvy Just Rizzed Up Baby Gronk,' an important update Festival crowd boos San Francisco techies over 'AI is a culture' video The End of Evangelion in theaters Landline Users Remain Proudly 'Old-Fashioned' in the Digital Age Minders App Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: zscaler.com/zerotrustAI rocketmoney.com/twig cachefly.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit rocketmoney.com/twig

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: kolide.com/twig babbel.com/twig

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: bitwarden.com/twit

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rocketmoney.com/twig

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit Miro.com/podcast kolide.com/twig

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 Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: babbel.com/twig

Social Media CEOs Testify The 27 Bills That Became Law in 2023 Google parent Alphabet ad revenue disappoints, CapEx up; shares sink 6% There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks Finding The Air Cannon Universal Music Group Says It Will Pull Songs From TikTok Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras Elon Musk's $55 Billion Tesla Pay Package Struck Down by Judge The Information's Creator Summit (at a Ritz!) Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes Take Podcast to SiriusXM for $100 Million-Plus HP CEO says the quiet part out loud: 'Make printing a subscription' In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox A video of Elon's Las Vegas Loop tunnel at "full capacity" Lumiere Google significantly reduces recaptcha free tier, introduces new pricing models Google Eases Passkey Adoption for Pixel Users Google quietly releases eSIM Transfer Tool — why it's a big deal cooked.wiki AI app to describe your screenshots (h/t ben evans) Crosswords moral panic The Pine Bush UFO Museum Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: rocketmoney.com/twig bitwarden.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them Don't Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs Is it time to give up on old news? Instagram's new 'nighttime nudges' aim to reduce teens' time on the app The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as "free" unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading An online pastor indicted in a $1.3 million crypto scam releases video explaining that God told him to sell crypto and spend proceeds on home remodel The TikTok 'Tunnel Girl' Is Not Alone Rat selfies Disney offers an elegant solution to VR's movement problem Starting Feb 22, you can no longer use Google Groups to post to Usenet, if you were still doing that The Traitors (on Peacock) is actually quite good Herman Miller power boxes Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: kolide.com/twig

Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? Samsung Unpacked recap Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws Google Maps now supports Bluetooth beacons in tunnels Apple revises US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, feat a scary message! Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet Peacock's AFC Wild Card game was the "most-streamed event ever in the US." Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement Tom Coates on Meta and the Fediverse Fox puts its stuff on the blockchain Functions Google is killing in Assistant Google quietly updates Chrome's incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit Google updates Chrome Incognito disclaimer amid $5 billion lawsuit settlement Google introduces 'Circle to Search,' a new way to search from anywhere on Android using gestures GPT Store opens Glenn's thing: How Infrastructure Works Paris's thing: 1990s internet directories Jeff's Thing: swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Glenn Fleishman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: meraki.cisco.com/twit Miro.com/podcast

Paris' big story: A Healthtech Unicorn Leaves a Trail of Clinic Complaints, Concerns Over Billing Practices The Information's 10th Anniversary Plagiarism Is Fine OpenAI's response to the NYT lawsuit Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All Gaming voice actors blindsided by 'garbage' union AI deal Asus' new laptop has two screens and a removable keyboard I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surveillance Hub FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data | TechCrunch Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date Layoffs at Humane AI Walmart debuts generative AI search and AI replenishment features at CES Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations' We Need To Talk About "Chunkus" This Week in Tunnels (Brooklyn edition) Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: fastmail.com/twit rocketmoney.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

NYTimes sues OpenAI How OpenAI could recreate Times quotes OpenAI's annualized revenue reportedly tops $1.6B As Assistant with Bard inches toward launch, here's its UI in action Podcast police TikToker 'Tunnel Girl' ordered to stop viral digging project under Virginia home Apps will now be reporting your earnings to tax authorities The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again Seattle's Zulily will 'wind down' its business and liquidate its assets Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun FTC Continues To Wade Into Copyright Issues In AI Without Understanding Anything Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter Dave Karpf from Wired's 30th birthday bash Don't forget to wish every horse in the northern hemisphere happy birthday The online Failure Museum A letter of recommendation for Medieval Times Gen Alpha Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: babbel.com/twig kolide.com/twig

Leo looks back at the best stories they covered in 2023. Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT, Leo introduces Neeva. Former Google Employee Talks About Latest Google Layoffs Batting a Thousand Elon Musk Fires Top Twitter Engineer Meta Launches Threads Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama OpenAI Strikes $5M Deal For Local News Initiatives Twitter Re-branded as X Waffle Party Paris announced as new co-host Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Google's $700 million Play Store settlement Cox Media Group claims they can listen in on your conversations Police don't get Google's location data anymore How billionaires spend their money on immortality No more AI Facial Recognition for Rite Aid UK Supreme Court rules that an AI cannot patent an invention Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material Apple watches sales to stop on December 21 515 Wordles and what we learned Jeff tries to hook up Salthank Google restructures ad sales Chevy's ChatGPT pitches Teslas and sells cars for $1 A group representing TikTok, Meta sues Utah over social media age limits EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war Tesla Autopilot fix falls short, according to Consumer Reports Flipboard enters the fediverse Om: Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography Not Gmail dot com, but Gail dot com Instacart's numbers Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: securemyemail.com/twit Use Code TWIT GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

This wide-ranging episode of TWiG covers many hot topics in tech, including the capabilities and limitations of AI writing tools like NotebookLM, controversies around misleading marketing of Google's Gemini AI model, the future of media and magazines, EU regulation of AI, and more. Interview with Steven Johnson about NotebookLM Google's best Gemini demo was faked Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT | Ars Technica Channel1.ai is an AI-generated news show: pilot EU's AI Act Google's App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games | WIRED This A.I. Subculture's Motto: Go, Go, Go Tesla (TSLA) Autopilot Recall: Two Million Cars Need Software Fix - Bloomberg FCC issues final denial of $885M Starlink subsidy | TechCrunch Ukraine's intelligence claims cyberattack on Russia's state tax service Ukraine's largest telecom operator shut down after cyberattack Netflix Releases Viewing Data for 18,000 TV Shows and Movies – The Hollywood Reporter Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle Outer Wilds, a fun time loop mystery game for spacers Dropout CEO Talks Doubling CollegeHumor Successor's Streaming Subs and Content Output, Price Increase Plans and First Profit Sharing Zuck says Threads is testing federation w/ActivityPub Google's Year in Search 2023 Google's Trends Time Capsule Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steven Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: discourse.org/twit wix.com/studio for This Week in Tech fastmail.com/twit

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit