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

Oct 23rd 2024

This Week in Google 791

There's a Pony In There Somewhere

C2PA, Character.ai Lawsuit, Polish AI Radio

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Guests: Nathan Freitas
Category: News
  • 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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