Apr 5th 2023
This Week in Google 710
Jexx Javros
Google Cost Cutting, Pixel Tablet
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Glenn Fleishman
- Google closing some micro kitchens
- Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures
- Google Drive Imposes 5 Million Item Cap, Even if You Have Storage Space Left
- Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive
- Lawmakers are clueless about social media. They’ll regulate it anyway
- Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data
- Three things everyone’s getting wrong about AI
- Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral
- AI guys are the new crypto guys
- Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
- Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on
- Ding Dong. Live Audio is dying. Remember Clubhouse?
- After disrupting businesses, Google Drive’s secret file cap is dead for now.
- Google launches ads transparency center.
- Google Search gets new travel features, including a ‘price guarantee’ tool for flights.
- Google Pixel Tablet arrives at FCC, revealing UWB connectivity
- YouTube channel pages add a dedicated ‘Podcasts’ tab
- The Google Now Launcher is fully shutting down 10 years later
- Google is trying to make sure apps let you delete your account
Picks:
- Ant's Picks: Pull UP
- Ant's Pick: Have a Laugh
- Jeff's Pick: Companies young people hope to work at
- Jeff's Pick: Tech layoff numbers
- Glenn's Pick: AirTag combination lock carabiner: Raptic Link& Lock
- Mikah's Pick: Nite Ize Keyrack, Carabiner Key Chain
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Links
- Google closing some microkitchens
- Google issuing Chromebooks to employees as part of cost-cutting measures
- Google Drive Imposes 5 Million Item Cap, Even if You Have Storage Space Left
- Google Rescinds 5 Million Item Limit on Drive
- Lawmakers are clueless about social media. They’ll regulate it anyway.
- Bloomberg builds its own LLM, trained on financial data
- 3 things everyone’s getting wrong about AI
- Midjourney Ends Its Free Trial After Fake Images Go Viral
- AI guys are the new crypto guys
- Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
- Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on
- Ding Dong. Live Audio is dying. Remember Clubhouse?
- After disrupting businesses, Google Drive’s secret file cap is dead for now
- Google launches ads transparency center
- Google Search gets new travel features, including a ‘price guarantee’ tool for flights
- Google Pixel Tablet arrives at FCC, revealing UWB connectivity
- YouTube channel pages add dedicated ‘Podcasts’ tab
- The Google Now Launcher is fully shutting down 10 years later
- Google is trying to make sure apps let you delete your account
- Pull UP
- I needed a laugh
- Companies young people hope to work at
- Tech layoff numbers
- AirTag combination lock carabiner: Raptic Link& Lock
- Nite Ize Keyrack, Carabiner Key Chain