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

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.
Category: News
  • 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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