Nov 29th 2023
This Week in Google 744
Giant Red Ties
Google Online News Act, DeepMind AI
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act
- Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials
- Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass
- Reflecting on 18 years at Google
- Google’s new geothermal energy project is up and running
- AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
- Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
- Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?
- Adobe’s $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds
- Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?
- A new low in manels
- Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
- OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern
- Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers
- Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O
- Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence
- Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral
- Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool
- Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account
- Google’s .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
- Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files
Picks of the week
- (Paris) The 2000 cinematic masterpiece Chicken Run
- (Paris) Pentiment
- (Jeff) Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
- (Jeff) After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
- (Ant) City Nerd on YouTube
- (Jason) No Ads in Albania, Ethiopia and Myanmar
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Links
- Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act
- Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials
- Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass [U: Google comments]
- Reflecting on 18 years at Google
- Google’s new geothermal energy project is up and running
- AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
- Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
- Black Friday online buying hits a record $9.8B in the US, $70.9B globally
- Adobe’s $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds
- Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?
- A new low in manels
- Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
- OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern
- Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O
- Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers
- Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence
- Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral
- Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool
- Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account
- Google’s .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
- Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files
- Pentiment
- Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
- After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
- City Nerd
- Omari Jackson Defensive Player of the Year