This Week in Google with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Jul 26th 2023

This Week in Google 726

Corpora Bailiwick and Jones

Twitter becomes X, Alphabet earnings, NotebookLM, Web Integrity API

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Category: News
  • Twitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon.
  • Alphabet reports better-than-expected quarterly results driven by growth in cloud.
  • YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Rise 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates.
  • Google’s CFO just got a promotion.
  • Google says 2 billion logged in monthly users are watching YouTube Shorts.
  • Google Street View is back in Germany after 10+ year halt.
  • Jeff talks about his trip to Google previewing NotebookLM.
  • Google software engineer got $605,000 bonus, plus more from massive salary leak.
  • Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web.
  • Top tech companies form group seeking to control AI.
  • ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI.
  • Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia.
  • Google Play services ending support for Android 4.4 KitKat.
  • Everything Samsung Announced at Summer Galaxy Unpacked 2023.
  • ChromeOS 115 rolling out: Android App Streaming, PDF signatures.

Picks:

  • Stacey - Weighted Vest.
  • Jeff - IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release.
  • Ant - "Google Stadia" Lives On For Me.

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