Feb 1st 2023
This Week in Google 701
Bring Me a Leaf Blower
ChatGPT and Bing, Samsung Unpacked 2023, Clear Calling demo, Artifact
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch ‘TV Show’ Is Peak Absurdity.
- ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big.
- Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees.
- Back At Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First Code Request In Years.
- History of AI by Shaan Ray.
- MusicLM: Generating Music From Text.
- AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse.
- OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future.
- Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers.
- Is AI-written content replacing cheap old content farms?
- Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy VR Startup Within Unlimited in Loss for Khan's FTC.
- The flight tracker that powered @ElonJet has taken a left turn.
- How is it legal to track private planes like Elon Musk's?
- US hacks back against Hive ransomware crew.
- Twitter co-founder says Elon Musk ‘doesn’t seem like’ the right person to own company.
- Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked 2023.
- Live test of Clear Calling.
- Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs.
- Intel just took the worst beating in earnings in over a decade.
- Android 13 QPR2 Beta 3 now available for Pixel phones.
- Latest Pixel Buds A-series 3.519.0 firmware update breaks Bluetooth pairing.
- YouTube TV losing MLB Network starting today.
- Google hosting in-person Cloud Next ’23 this August.
- Chrome for Android rolling out fingerprint unlock for Incognito tabs.
- PSA: Gmail’s new package tracking interface is now live if you know where to look.
- New leaked specs suggest ‘Pixel Tablet Pro’ might not be a thing after all.
- Acer’s newest Chromebooks are built to be classroom-ready.
- Google says Lens and Maps Live View are ‘prelude to [its] long-term vision’ for AR.
- Google Fi says hackers accessed customers’ information.
- Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback.
- Spotify axes podcast head Dawn Ostroff in cutbacks.
Picks:
- Stacey - The Sorcerer of Pyongyang: A Novel.
- Jeff - Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances.
- Jeff - I'm on Team dog.
- Ant - You People.
- Ant - I'm Very Angry, So I'm Campaigning.
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Links
- ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big | Semafor
- Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees
- Back At Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First Code Request In Years
- MusicLM
- Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy VR Startup Within Unlimited in Loss for Khan's FTC - Bloomberg
- The flight tracker that powered @ElonJet has taken a left turn | Ars Technica
- US hacks back against Hive ransomware crew - BBC News
- Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs
- Android 13 QPR2 Beta 3 now available for Pixel phones
- [Update: Fix coming] Latest Pixel Buds A-series 3.519.0 firmware update breaks Bluetooth pairing
- YouTube TV losing MLB Network starting today
- Google hosting in-person Cloud Next ’23 this August
- Chrome for Android rolling out fingerprint unlock for Incognito tabs
- PSA: Gmail’s new package tracking interface is now live if you know where to look
- Systrom soft-launches Artifact: TikTok for text; Reader reborn
- Spotify axes podcast head Dawn Ostroff in cutbacks
- The Sorcerer of Pyongyang: A Novel
- Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
- I'm on Team dog
- The Critics Hate it, But I Felt Something