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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.

#10

TWiG 765: Inflatable Nuts - TikTok Ban, Rabbit R1, Equinox.space

---'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill ---TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google ---How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge ---The Chilling of TikTok ---FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching ---Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage ---Paris' nuts ---Rabbit R1 ---brilliant.xyz ---More wearable AI: IYO One ---The Man Who Killed Google Search ---Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality' ---The solution to scary Boston Dynamics bots? Make robots hairy ---Meta shares plummet 10% after second quarter outlook disappoints ---Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to 'bring back the open web' ---Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam ---Bravely Exploring the Squalor of a 'Boy Room' ---This fun little web game: Equinox.Space ---magCulture ---No one buys books Hosts: [Leo Laporte] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsors: --- [YahooFinance.com] (http://YahooFinance.com) --- [bitwarden.com/twit] (http://bitwarden.com/twit) ... Read more

Yesterday

2 HR 36 MINS

2:36:35

Yesterday

#9

TWiG 764: Cow Magnets - Atlas Evolved, Humane AI Pin, Panic-as-a-Business

---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] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Guest: [Stacey Higginbotham] (https://twit.tv/people/stacey-higginbotham) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsors: --- [eufy.com] (http://eufy.com) --- [joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT] (http://joindeleteme.com/twit) --- [cachefly.com/twit] (https://cachefly.com/twit) ... Read more

18 Apr 2024

2 HR 54 MINS

2:54:10

18 Apr 2024

#8

TWiG 763: All the Meat Was Shaking - Suno Music, Google Cloud Next

---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] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsors: --- [joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT] (http://joindeleteme.com/twit) --- [fastmail.com/twit] (http://fastmail.com/twit) --- [Melissa.com/twit] (http://Melissa.com/twit) ... Read more

11 Apr 2024

3 HR 04 MINS

3:04:35

11 Apr 2024

#7

TWiG 762: People Who Like Sticks - Taco Bell AI, Amazon Scraps "Just Walk Out"

---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] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsor: --- [kolide.com/twig] (https://kolide.com/twig) ... Read more

04 Apr 2024

2 HR 13 MINS

2:13:07

04 Apr 2024

#6

TWiG 761: Exploring the World of Stretch Pants - Collective AI, Vinyl Sales

---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] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsors: --- [zscaler.com/zerotrustAI] (http://zscaler.com/zerotrustAI) --- [bitwarden.com/twit] (http://bitwarden.com/twit) ... Read more

28 Mar 2024

2 HR 36 MINS

2:36:08

28 Mar 2024

#5

TWiG 760: The Ground State of a Molecule - Slorg & Slerf, NVIDIA Event, Google Health

---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] (https://twit.tv/people/mikah-sargent) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsors: --- [zscaler.com/zerotrustAI] (http://zscaler.com/zerotrustAI) --- [rocketmoney.com/twig] (http://rocketmoney.com/twig) --- [cachefly.com/twit] (https://cachefly.com/twit) ... Read more

21 Mar 2024

2 HR 40 MINS

2:40:58

21 Mar 2024

#4

TWiG 759: 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] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Guest: [Ed Zitron] (https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsors: --- [Melissa.com/twit] (http://Melissa.com/twit) --- [rocketmoney.com/twig] (http://rocketmoney.com/twig) ... Read more

14 Mar 2024

2 HR 12 MINS

2:12:36

14 Mar 2024

#3

TWiG 758: 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] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsors: --- [kolide.com/twig] (https://kolide.com/twig) --- [babbel.com/twig] (http://babbel.com/twig) ... Read more

07 Mar 2024

2 HR 19 MINS

2:19:51

07 Mar 2024

#2

TWiG 757: 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] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsor: --- [bitwarden.com/twit] (http://bitwarden.com/twit) ... Read more

29 Feb 2024

2 HR 42 MINS

2:42:10

29 Feb 2024

#1

TWiG 756: 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] (https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte) , [Jeff Jarvis] (https://twit.tv/people/jeff-jarvis) , and [Paris Martineau] (https://twit.tv/people/paris-martineau) Guest: [Molly White] (https://www.mollywhite.net/) Download or subscribe to this show at [https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google] (https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google) . Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at [https://twit.tv/clubtwit] (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) Sponsor: --- [rocketmoney.com/twig] (http://rocketmoney.com/twig) ... Read more

22 Feb 2024

2 HR 43 MINS

2:43:28

22 Feb 2024

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