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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 AI How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business Nielsen crowns YouTube #1 Streamer in America 12 months straight! Untranslatable foreign words Molly on Sam Bankman-Fried Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.'s Hottest Start-Ups Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate New Google sign in Waze new features 'Rat Dck' Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal TikTokker vs her breakdancing bitcoin dad Mathematical and Puzzle Fonts/Typefaces - Leo's Pick chocolate 3-d printer 'I love to twirl the cord': the young people pushing for a landline renaissance wiki edit wars ChatGPT goes temporarily "insane" with unexpected outputs, spooking users Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Molly White Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rocketmoney.com/twig

Leo opens his copy of "Shift Happens" Nvidia CEO calls for "Sovereign AI" as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value Sarah Silverman's copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in pared-down form The rise of obituary spam Biden administration taps Gina Raimondo to direct new AI Safety Institute University of Pennsylvania announces first AI undergrad degree When Your Technical Skills Are Eclipsed, Your Humanity Will Matter More Than Ever "Societal misalignments" could pose AI dangers, OpenAI CEO says Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is 'the better product' vs. Apple's Vision Pro TikTok tunnel girl says project at Northern Virginia home is moving along Everyone keeps asking me to talk about this Tunnel Guy so I'm finally doing it New Mass Gmail Rejections To Start April 2024, Google Says Google One AI Premium is $19.99/month with Gemini Advanced A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media The Web Design Museum on Instagram ohmygit.org in Finland, Windows95Man is going to Eurovision. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit Miro.com/podcast kolide.com/twig

Apple vision pro talk Your phone isn't listening to you: The myth and its origins Bluesky Opens Up Taylor Swift joins Elon Musk in trying to silence student who tracks celebrity jets UMG Pulls it's music out of TikTok The unlikely 3 million electric toothbrush DDoS attack YouTube TV Number of Subscribers Revealed in Neal Mohan Letter ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery to form sports streaming service venture Blazing Saddles 50th bday Google Bard to become 'Gemini' on February 7 with Android app Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer' Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot Amazon debuts 'Rufus,' an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app Did You Use ChatGPT On Your School Apps? These Words May Tip Them Off AI trained on a baby's experiences yields clues to how we learn language Elon Musk Almost Sold Tesla To Google for $11 Billion TikTok's grammy TikTok: Call the Raclette police wkrp | Aw Phooey ASCII Theater This impromtu Punxsutawney Phil musical on TikTok!! The rebuttal duet Pew social stats NYT 1985: "laptops are a small niche market, not a mass market. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Mikah Sargent Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: babbel.com/twig

Social Media CEOs Testify The 27 Bills That Became Law in 2023 Google parent Alphabet ad revenue disappoints, CapEx up; shares sink 6% There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube Elon Musk: First Human Receives Neuralink Brain Chip Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks Finding The Air Cannon Universal Music Group Says It Will Pull Songs From TikTok Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras Elon Musk's $55 Billion Tesla Pay Package Struck Down by Judge The Information's Creator Summit (at a Ritz!) Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes Take Podcast to SiriusXM for $100 Million-Plus HP CEO says the quiet part out loud: 'Make printing a subscription' In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox A video of Elon's Las Vegas Loop tunnel at "full capacity" Lumiere Google significantly reduces recaptcha free tier, introduces new pricing models Google Eases Passkey Adoption for Pixel Users Google quietly releases eSIM Transfer Tool — why it's a big deal cooked.wiki AI app to describe your screenshots (h/t ben evans) Crosswords moral panic The Pine Bush UFO Museum Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: rocketmoney.com/twig bitwarden.com/twit cachefly.com/twit

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them Don't Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids Sports Illustrated Thrown Into Chaos With Mass Layoffs Is it time to give up on old news? Instagram's new 'nighttime nudges' aim to reduce teens' time on the app The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams The FTC orders Intuit to stop promoting its products as "free" unless they are actually free for all consumers, after an FTC judge found TurboTax ads misleading An online pastor indicted in a $1.3 million crypto scam releases video explaining that God told him to sell crypto and spend proceeds on home remodel The TikTok 'Tunnel Girl' Is Not Alone Rat selfies Disney offers an elegant solution to VR's movement problem Starting Feb 22, you can no longer use Google Groups to post to Usenet, if you were still doing that The Traitors (on Peacock) is actually quite good Herman Miller power boxes Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: kolide.com/twig

Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? Samsung Unpacked recap Google Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers in Its Voice Assistant, AR Teams Google Formally Endorses Right to Repair, Will Lobby to Pass Repair Laws Google Maps now supports Bluetooth beacons in tunnels Apple revises US App Store rules to let developers link to outside payment methods, feat a scary message! Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet Peacock's AFC Wild Card game was the "most-streamed event ever in the US." Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement Tom Coates on Meta and the Fediverse Fox puts its stuff on the blockchain Functions Google is killing in Assistant Google quietly updates Chrome's incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit Google updates Chrome Incognito disclaimer amid $5 billion lawsuit settlement Google introduces 'Circle to Search,' a new way to search from anywhere on Android using gestures GPT Store opens Glenn's thing: How Infrastructure Works Paris's thing: 1990s internet directories Jeff's Thing: swarovski's world-first AI binoculars that identify species on their own Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Glenn Fleishman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: meraki.cisco.com/twit Miro.com/podcast

Paris' big story: A Healthtech Unicorn Leaves a Trail of Clinic Complaints, Concerns Over Billing Practices The Information's 10th Anniversary Plagiarism Is Fine OpenAI's response to the NYT lawsuit Fair Use, The Internet Archive, And Why We Bother To Have Copyright Law At All Gaming voice actors blindsided by 'garbage' union AI deal Asus' new laptop has two screens and a removable keyboard I.R.S. to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System EFF Unveils Its New Street Level Surveillance Hub FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data | TechCrunch Rabbit R1 AI Assistant: Price, Specs, Release Date Layoffs at Humane AI Walmart debuts generative AI search and AI replenishment features at CES Volkswagen says it's putting ChatGPT in its cars for 'enriching conversations' We Need To Talk About "Chunkus" This Week in Tunnels (Brooklyn edition) Hosts: Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau Guest: Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: fastmail.com/twit rocketmoney.com/twig Melissa.com/twit

NYTimes sues OpenAI How OpenAI could recreate Times quotes OpenAI's annualized revenue reportedly tops $1.6B As Assistant with Bard inches toward launch, here's its UI in action Podcast police TikToker 'Tunnel Girl' ordered to stop viral digging project under Virginia home Apps will now be reporting your earnings to tax authorities The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again Seattle's Zulily will 'wind down' its business and liquidate its assets Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit Driverless cars immune from traffic tickets in California under current laws How Campbell Soup Turned New Jersey Into a Tomato-Growing State A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless. How Not to Be Stupid About AI, With Yann LeCun FTC Continues To Wade Into Copyright Issues In AI Without Understanding Anything Amazon plans to make its own hydrogen to power vehicles Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter Dave Karpf from Wired's 30th birthday bash Don't forget to wish every horse in the northern hemisphere happy birthday The online Failure Museum A letter of recommendation for Medieval Times Gen Alpha Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: babbel.com/twig kolide.com/twig

Leo looks back at the best stories they covered in 2023. Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT, Leo introduces Neeva. Former Google Employee Talks About Latest Google Layoffs Batting a Thousand Elon Musk Fires Top Twitter Engineer Meta Launches Threads Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama OpenAI Strikes $5M Deal For Local News Initiatives Twitter Re-branded as X Waffle Party Paris announced as new co-host Host: Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit

Google's $700 million Play Store settlement Cox Media Group claims they can listen in on your conversations Police don't get Google's location data anymore How billionaires spend their money on immortality No more AI Facial Recognition for Rite Aid UK Supreme Court rules that an AI cannot patent an invention Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material Apple watches sales to stop on December 21 515 Wordles and what we learned Jeff tries to hook up Salthank Google restructures ad sales Chevy's ChatGPT pitches Teslas and sells cars for $1 A group representing TikTok, Meta sues Utah over social media age limits EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war Tesla Autopilot fix falls short, according to Consumer Reports Flipboard enters the fediverse Om: Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography Not Gmail dot com, but Gail dot com Instacart's numbers Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: securemyemail.com/twit Use Code TWIT GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT

This wide-ranging episode of TWiG covers many hot topics in tech, including the capabilities and limitations of AI writing tools like NotebookLM, controversies around misleading marketing of Google's Gemini AI model, the future of media and magazines, EU regulation of AI, and more. Interview with Steven Johnson about NotebookLM Google's best Gemini demo was faked Round 2: We test the new Gemini-powered Bard against ChatGPT | Ars Technica Channel1.ai is an AI-generated news show: pilot EU's AI Act Google's App Store Ruled an Illegal Monopoly, as a Jury Sides With Epic Games | WIRED This A.I. Subculture's Motto: Go, Go, Go Tesla (TSLA) Autopilot Recall: Two Million Cars Need Software Fix - Bloomberg FCC issues final denial of $885M Starlink subsidy | TechCrunch Ukraine's intelligence claims cyberattack on Russia's state tax service Ukraine's largest telecom operator shut down after cyberattack Netflix Releases Viewing Data for 18,000 TV Shows and Movies – The Hollywood Reporter Top Execs at Sports Illustrated's Publisher Fired After AI Debacle Outer Wilds, a fun time loop mystery game for spacers Dropout CEO Talks Doubling CollegeHumor Successor's Streaming Subs and Content Output, Price Increase Plans and First Profit Sharing Zuck says Threads is testing federation w/ActivityPub Google's Year in Search 2023 Google's Trends Time Capsule Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guest: Steven Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: discourse.org/twit wix.com/studio for This Week in Tech fastmail.com/twit

Misinformation researcher Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Facebook Meet Gemini AI, Google's ChatGPT Killer The Inside Story of Microsoft's Partnership with OpenAI How Elon Musk and Larry Page's AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom Beeper Cloud and Product Roadmap Update Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts — 'Heavyweight,' 'Stolen' Salt-Hank Gordon Ramsey duet!! Google's Gemini AI model is coming to the Pixel 8 Pro for recording summaries and smart replies Do you know what 'rizz' is?? It's Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year. Rob Reiner Remembers Norman Lear: We've Lost 'a Real Champion of America' Linda Yaccarino's Very Unmerry X Mess Picks of the week (Paris) WeCroak, a great app for the fun nihilists (Paris) 10 years of The Information! How Jessica Lessin's The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult (Jeff) Pornography websites will have to check users' ages, under draft UK guidelines (Jeff) AI-powered pickleball calls Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: bitwarden.com/twit kolide.com/twig Melissa.com/twit