Jul 26th 2023
This Week in Google 726
Corpora Bailiwick and Jones
Twitter becomes X, Alphabet earnings, NotebookLM, Web Integrity API
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- 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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Links
- Twitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon - The Verge
- GOOG Exhibit 99.1 Q2 2023 - 2023q2-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf
- YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Up 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates - Variety
- Google Street View is back in Germany after 10+ year halt
- Leaked Google employee pay
- Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
- White House AI safety agreement
- 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
- ChromeOS 115 rolling out: Android App Streaming, PDF signatures
- IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release
- "Google Stadia" Lives On For Me
- Davinci Resolve 18.5 released