Jul 19th 2023
This Week in Google 725
But Senator Trellis...
IoT cybersecurity label, defending Lina Khan, LLaMA 2, AI Synthetic data
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- The White House details its IoT cybersecurity label plan.
- Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open.
- Pluralistic: Why they’re smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023).
- Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Calls Company “Unstable”.
- Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama.
- Apple is testing an AI chatbot but has no idea what to do with it.
- Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models.
- G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics.
- AI can't even tell you the chronological order of 'Star Wars' movies.
- OpenAI strikes $5 million-plus local news deal.
- Devindra: AI put me in a 'South Park' episode.
- The risks of AI are real but manageable.
- This AI Watches Millions Of Cars And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal.
- Google launches Nearby Share for Windows and partnering to pre-install.
- Google confirms related search operator is going away.
- Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds.
- Now Google’s Bard AI chatbot can talk and respond to visual prompts.
- PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week.
Picks:
- Stacey - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Leo - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Leo - Click for a random web 1.0 web site
- Jeff - Vox Media stops using Chorus, proprietary CMS, for its own websites
- Ant - Peak Design Camera Cube
- Ant - Yellowgold - This Road
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Links
- Stacey: The White House details its IoT cybersecurity label plan
- Pluralistic: Why they’re smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Calls Company “Unstable” - Thurrott.com
- Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama | Meta
- G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics - Vox
- OpenAI strikes $5 million-plus local news deal
- Devindra: AI put me in a 'South Park' episode
- This AI Watches Millions Of Cars And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal
- Google launches Nearby Share for Windows and partnering to pre-install
- Google confirms related search operator is going away
- Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds
- Now Google’s Bard AI chatbot can talk and respond to visual prompts
- PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week
- Click for a random web 1.0 web site
- Vox Media stops using Chorus, proprietary CMS, for its own websites
- Underrated Pack/Pouch For Everyday
- This Road