May 29th 2024
This Week in Google 770
Giggle Pants and Chortle Skorts
Google AI Answers, ICQ, Private Jet Tracking
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
- Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter
- OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic
- UN statement on risks from generative AI
- We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years
- Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet
- Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase
- Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook
- Here's the Google Home app 'Favorites' widget
- Google Ads Now Being Mixed In With Organic Results
- YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users
- How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon
- BuzzFeed Clashes With Vivek Ramaswamy, Its New Activist Investor
- Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack
- HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm
- TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass
- Parents Dance Like It’s the ’80s on TikTok, and Bring Down the House
- Meta's white, male advisory group
- My weekend plans: Ren Faire on HBO
- Canva meets Hamilton
- Top 50 podcasts
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Links
- Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search - The Verge
- Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter - Bloomberg
- OpenAI researcher who resigned over safety concerns joins Anthropic
- UN statement on risks from generative AI
- We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years | PC Gamer
- Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet
- Everything Google announced at its big Chromebook showcase
- Google adds AI-powered features to Chromebook | TechCrunch
- Here's the Google Home app 'Favorites' widget [Gallery]
- Google Ads Now Being Mixed In With Organic Results
- YouTube's free games catalog 'Playables' rolls out to all users | TechCrunch
- How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon - by Louise Matsakis
- How Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon - by Louise Matsakis
- Inside the scramble to ‘prebunk’ election misinformation before it takes hold - The Washington Post
- Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack | Internet Archive Blogs
- HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm
- TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass
- Parents Dance Like It’s the ’80s on TikTok, and Bring Down the House
- Meta's white, male advisory group
- My weekend plans: Ren Faire on HBO
- Canva meets Hamilton
- Top 50 podcasts