This Week in Google with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Aug 21st 2024

This Week in Google 782

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Google Vs. Epic, Fake Reviews, AI Warfare

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Category: News
  • Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
  • Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die
  • OpenAI signs multi-year content partnership with Condé Nast
  • Deal in california
  • xAI’s new Grok image generator floods X with controversial AI fakes
  • Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
  • The FTC finalizes its rules clamping down on fake online reviews
  • Palantir’s Alex Karp Talks About War, AI and America’s Future
  • Roblox is Already the Biggest Game In The World. Why Can't It Make a Profit (And How Can It)?
  • Looks and Gaming: Who and Why?
  • 2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
  • Ten additional US states join DOJ antitrust lawsuit looking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster
  • Google went public 20 years ago—what your $1000 investment would be worth today
  • Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming’s capital city
  • More than 30 tech companies have pitched A.I. tools to political campaigns for November’s election. The campaigns have been wary.
  • Russia’s AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says
  • Gmail can turn ‘rough notes’ into a full draft with Gemini ‘Polish’
  • Google’s Stunning New Android AI Feature Instantly Locks Phone Thieves Out
  • I tried Google's Pixel Screenshots and it's everything I'd want an AI feature to be
  • Early hands-on with Google Pixel 9's AI Call Notes reveals disappointing restrictions
  • Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in popular Android apps
  • Trap
  • Where have all the Burners gone? Shops catering to Burning Man brace for slow season
  • Inside the opulent world of six-figure kids birthday parties in Silicon Valley
  • TikTok Parrot is ‘attention hog’ and smart as human toddler, owners say
  • Paris 'n' pals need this

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