Oct 23rd 2024
This Week in Google 791
There's a Pony In There Somewhere
C2PA, Character.ai Lawsuit, Polish AI Radio
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
Guests:
Nathan Freitas
- Requiem for Raghavan
- Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin
- Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now
- Google will block election ads after polls close
- LinkedIn is News Publishers’ New Best Friend
- People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
- Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
- Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas
- Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
- Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide
- On-device AI could make apps obsolete
- Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
- Controversy after Polish radio station replaces human presenters with AI
- Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot
- Elvis Found Alive
- Thank you, Steve Ballmer, for a concert app that made me want to scream
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Links
- Requiem for Raghavan
- Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin
- Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now
- Google will block election ads after polls close
- LinkedIn is News Publishers’ New Best Friend
- People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
- Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts | TechCrunch
- Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas
- Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
- Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide
- On-device AI could make apps obsolete
- Jeff will rant about this NYT conflict of interest re its OpenAI suit
- Controversy after Polish radio station replaces human presenters with AI
- Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot
- And... Elvis Found Alive?
- Thank you, Steve Ballmer, for a concert app that made me want to scream