This Week in Google (Audio)
It's not just Google. This Week in Google hosts, Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau, cover all of Big Tech every Wednesday. Listeners tune in for thought-provoking and entertaining conversations about AI, Internet memes, the future of media, and the latest emerging tech. You won't want to miss a minute. Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Episodes
April 24, 2024 • 156 mins
- 'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
- TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google
- How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge
- The Chilling of TikTok
- FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching
- Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage
- Paris' nuts
- Rabbit R1
- brilliant.xyz
- More wearable AI: IYO One
- The Man Who Killed Google ...
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April 17, 2024 • 174 mins
- Craig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music
- Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
- Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed."
- limitless ai
- brilliant.xyz
- Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles.
- Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act
- Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Pr...
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April 11, 2024 • 184 mins
- Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps
- The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
- FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband
- Talking about the old internet
- Jeff's paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act
- Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
- Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
- SF Giants usin...
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April 3, 2024 • 133 mins
- The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
- Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2024
- Why YouTube Decided to Take Over Cable Television
- YouTube is increasing the price of premium (Red) subscription by nearly 50%
- Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
- Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
- 20 years of Gmail
- AT&T resets acc...
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March 27, 2024 • 156 mins
- Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
- Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
- Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network
- Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
- AI news that's fit to print
- How Google uses AI to improve global flood forecasting
- Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America
- 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside ...
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March 20, 2024 • 160 mins
- Matt Levine attracts online ire for column, 'Slorg Is Sorry He Burnt Slerf'
- AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering
- Sam Bankman-Fried Says 50-Year Sentence Only Suitable for a 'Super Villain'
- Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers' data was used for Gemini
- Mikah & Jeff react to nVidia event
- OpenAI is expected to release a 'materially better' GPT-5 for its chatbo...
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March 13, 2024 • 132 mins
- Told You So: Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations
- European Lawmakers Approve Landmark AI Legislation
- TikTok Will Use Every Legal Tool to Fight a Forced Sale
- ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick expressed interest in buying TikTok, floated the idea of partnering w/ Sam Altman and others
- Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
- Karl Bode breaks it down at TechDirt
- Ed's ...
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March 6, 2024 • 139 mins
- OpenAI and Elon Musk
- Something Like Fire
- Former Twitter Executives Sue Musk Over Unpaid Severance
- Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
- Life House CEO Departs After The Information's Report on Company
- South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
- Here Come the AI Worms
- Open letter: A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation
- Microsoft engineer who raised concerns about C...
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February 28, 2024 • 162 mins
- Gemini and Google's Culture
- Klarna says its OpenAI virtual assistant does the work of 700 humans
- OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit
- Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI
- Kids left disappointed by Willy Wonka theme park grift
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin sued over a plane crash that killed two pilots last year
- MWC 2024: Motorola's Rollable Concept phone l...
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February 21, 2024 • 163 mins
- Introducing Molly White
- Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
- Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform
- End of an era: The phone book goes the way of the fax machine as it drops through doors for the very last time after almost 150 years
- Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot
- Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and ...
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May 28, 2020 • 135 mins
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