This Week in Google (Audio)

A TikTok corner just for Stacey (h/t @cbryancan@twit.social)DPReview.com to close: Digital Photography ReviewArchive Team to Backup DPReviewStacey's AI TweetThe Age of AI has begun Bill GatesLeo Gets BARDGoogle Bard Sign-upLooking at New MidjourneyChatGPT Radio!Adobe Intro's Generative AI into Creative Cloud - FireflyFollow The Laportes on Vacation - PolarstepsBook Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead(2021) Libby is stuck between libraries and publishers in the e-book warGoogle finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Samsung Exynos chipsetsGoogle Workspace ambush and fixSupport for Google Workspace #nocostReid Hoffman wrote a book with GPT-4Stochastic Parrots Day videoBellingcat founder Believes He Was Banned From Midjourney After His AI Images Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested Went Viral.CEO on TikTok in DCLawmakers say TikTok is a national security threat, but evidence remains unclear.Blackberry, the trailerHave your cake and print it: the 3D culinary revolution is comingGoogle Kills JacquardStacey's Pick - Tapo TP-Link Matter PlugLeo's Pick - LoFi Air Traffic ControlJeff's Pick - The Vesuvius ChallengeAnt's Pick - 50% Off an Annual Subscription to Particle Illusion by Boris FX (use code PIPLUGIN50) Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt 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:bitwarden.com/twit

OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model.Silicon Valley Bank is imploding, prompting bank run.T-Mobile to acquire Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile in a $1.35 billion deal.OpenAI announces GPT-4 AI language model (again).Grammarly adds ChatGPT-like AI to create text in your writing style, outlines, and more.Gmail, Google Docs, and more are getting ChatGPT-like generative AI features.Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.Microsoft Lays Off Team That Taught Employees How to Make AI Tools Responsibly.The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) presents Stochastic Parrots Day.Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3.Carrot Weather gets a snarky ChatGPT update.Nabla, a digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into action.Rent Going Up? One Company's Algorithm Could Be Why.TikTok now offers a feed dedicated to science and tech.Meta is working on a decentralized social app.Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment.Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT.Google has discontinued the Glass Enterprise Edition.YouTube TV Multiview lets you watch up to 4 games in preview for March Madness.Google Play will now machine translate Android apps for free.Google Workspace is getting a price increase and other changes.March Pixel Feature Drop with Android 13 QPR2 is now rolling out.Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help.Meta layoffs: Facebook owner to cut 10,000 staff.A Look Inside Elon Musk's $50,000 Prefab Tiny House.The Biden administration demands that TikTok be sold or risk a nationwide ban. Picks:Stacey - Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock Hardcover by Jenny Odell.Jeff - Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today, and I'm Going to Write About It.Jeff - Lifehacker sold by G/O to Ziff Davis.Jeff - Here's Everything That Happened at the #BlackTwitterSummit.Jeff - The Color Printer.Mike - ChatPDF. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Stacey Higginbotham Guest: Mike Elgan 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:GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWITeightsleep.com/twit

Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk's Internal Communications, Journalist Names.Olauncher. Minimal AF Launcher.YouTubers can swear at the start of videos again without getting demonetized.Gigi Sohn, Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle.'Slavery was wrong' and 5 other things some educators won't teach anymore.Google I/O 2023 takes place on May 10.Facebook's Powerful Large Language Model Leaks Online.How AI Generates New Images: GANs Put Simply.The privacy loophole in your doorbell.Rest of World receives a $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation to expand coverage of how tech is impacting workers.Fitbit is getting rid of the best reasons to use a Fitbit, which is a big mistake.Florida bill would require bloggers who write about the governor to register with the state.Biden's national cybersecurity strategy advocates tech regulation, and software liability reform.A New 'M*A*S*H' Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J.20% of YCombinator classes are built on machine learning.ChatGPT enters slack; the machine plays office politics.Prepare for the Textpocalypse by Matthew Kirschenbaum.Farewell to a tech brand of which I'll always be proud. Vox Media is "retiring the Recode branding" today.CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo steps down for AI-generated content role.March 2023 Pixel Feature Drop changelog leaks out.Google rolling out Android 14 Developer Preview 2.Blurry subway photos may offer our latest Pixel Fold leak.Here's everything new in Android 14 Developer Preview 2 [Gallery].Google begins rolling out its new look for Docs and other Workspace apps.Google One brings VPN to $1.99/month plan, adding dark web info monitoring.Pixel Buds Pro spatial audio with head tracking update rolling out.Android 15's dessert is apparently 'Vanilla Ice Cream'.Google launches the new Google Trends portal.Google Chrome is making it easier to delete autofill data. Picks:Stacey - COVIDLeo - Opal C1Leo - CamoJeff - The New Gatekeepers by Benedict Evans.Ant - Peak Design TRAVEL BACKPACK 45L.Ant - FINALLY coming to "TV". Silo series based on books by Hugh Howey. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt 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/twitMiro.com/podcast

Our Growing TikTok Moral Panic Still Isn't Addressing The Actual Problem.U.S. House panel approves bill giving Biden power to ban TikTok.Apple Watch potential ban: What you need to know.All about Salt_Hank's upcoming cookbook.YouTube's new head talks 2023 priorities, including AI, podcasting, Shorts and more.Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar.OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit.Planning for AGI and beyond.You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub.Talking about the diminishing drive to share on social media.Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative Bluesky hits the App Store as an invite-only app.YouTube video causes Pixel phones to instantly reboot.In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO.Elon Musk's defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous.Elon Musk Reportedly Building 'Based AI' Because ChatGPT Is Too Woke.Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth's pre-seed funding.Google Drops 9 New Android and Wear OS Features.Google Chrome's new zoom on mobile blows things up by up to 300 percent.Google Keep's new Android widget makes it easier to check off items on your to-do list.Android is adding support for eSIM transfer between devices.Chrome tweaked to improve memory use & battery life on MacBook.Waymo starts autonomous testing in LA with no human driver.Google's bringing Magic Eraser to all Google One subscribers — including iPhone users.Gmail's client-side encryption is now available to more businesses.Google rolls out fall detection on the Pixel Watch.Your Google Docs are about to look a little bit different. Picks:Jason - Artifact for Android.Jeff - Jeff with teenage look filter.Ant - New Affordable Amaran COB S-Series Lights.Ant - How Y'all Doing by Leslie Jordon. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Ant Pruitt, and Jason Howell 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:fastmail.com/twit

Some Initial Thoughts On The Supreme Court Oral Arguments In Gonzalez: Non-Experts Might Still Make A Mess Of Things, But Without Understanding Why.Quick Debrief on the Gonzalez v. Google Oral Arguments.Cathy's Amicus brief.Supreme Court Wrestles With Suit Claiming Twitter Aided Terrorists.What happened to the K9YO pico balloon? Shot down by an F-22 Raptor.The maze is in the mouse. What ails Google. And how it can turn...Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight.YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving, replaced by Neal Mohan.NPR says it's cutting jobs by 10% as ad revenue drops.Mark Zuckerberg - Good morning and new product...Inside Meta's Push to Solve the Noisy Office.Google Reassessing Timeline for Massive San Jose Campus.German government banned from operating Facebook page.Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions.Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles.Subway planning EV charging oasis. Now if it were Taco Bell...Google Messages is finally just calling it 'RCS'.Google's long-awaited Tasks and Reminders consolidation starts in March.ChromeOS 110 rolling out: Super Resolution Audio, Select-to-speak, channels labels, more.Acer Chromebook 516 GE.Google Weather gets an accidental dark theme via the Android System Webview update.Google Chrome rolls out Memory and Energy Saver modes. Picks:Cathy - Montalbano.Jeff - AI.com now takes you to ChatGpt.Jeff - Never use a URL shortening service - even if you own it.Ant - Borix FX Particle Illusion Updated.Ant - Hagibis USB-C Hub with Hard Drive Enclosure. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Ant Pruitt 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 Sponsor:CDW.com/HPE

Elon Musk's reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it.Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first.Google's AI chatbot, Bard, sparks a $100 billion loss in Alphabet shares.Eight Research Papers That Set Off the AI Boom.What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?How, why and when generative AI will kill the search engine.writeGPT - OpenAI's GPT prompt assistant.From Bing to Sydney – Stratechery by Ben Thompson.This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he's not happy about it.Google Launches Privacy Sandbox for Android Beta Test.Google Drive adding stylus and finger PDF annotation on Android.YouTube TV subscribers will get a discount on NFL Sunday Ticket, access launches September 10.Google Fiber rolling out $125/month 5 Gig service in 4 cities. Picks:Stacey - Radio Garden.Mike - Wikenigma.Mike - StealthGPT.Ant - Centralized vs Decentralized on FLOSS Weekly.Ant - Tiktok Since Mr. Jarvis is Off This Week. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Mike Elgan 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:eightsleep.com/twitGO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWITMiro.com/podcast

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary.Matias Tactile Pro.I Tried Microsoft's New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same.Google unveils its own ChatGPT-like AI chatbot.Bret Taylor starts AI company; Google VP joins.Twitter Places Limits on Tweet Frequency, Impacting Business and Individual Accounts.Google's AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in first demo.Twitter execs acknowledge mistakes with Hunter Biden laptop story but say no government involvement.Elon Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over Tweets Proposing to Take Tesla Private.Google will soon blur explicit images by default in search results.Google is adding some new features for EVs with built-in Google Maps.Google winds down feature that put playable podcasts directly in search results.Google launches Android 14 Developer Preview for Pixel.Jason Howell reviews the OnePlus 11 5G.Harvard Misinformation Expert Joan Donovan Forced to Leave by Kennedy School Dean, Sources Say. Picks:Stacey - Sunnyside - Healthier Drinking Habits That Fit Your Lifestyle.Jeff - Watch our new Fixed on Pixel ad ahead of the big game.Jeff - Coffee for Ant.Ant - Early Mornings Photo Contest.Ant - Shout out to TWiG Listener. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt 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:Melissa.com/twitfastmail.com/twiteightsleep.com/twit

AI-Generated Seinfeld-Like Twitch 'TV Show' Is Peak Absurdity.ChatGPT is about to get even better and Microsoft's Bing could win big.Google testing ChatGPT-like chatbot 'Apprentice Bard' with employees.Back At Google Again, Cofounder Sergey Brin Just Filed His First Code Request In Years.History of AI by Shaan Ray.MusicLM: Generating Music From Text.AI-Generated Voice Firm Clamps Down After 4chan Makes Celebrity Voices for Abuse.OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future.Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers.Is AI-written content replacing cheap old content farms?Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy VR Startup Within Unlimited in Loss for Khan's FTC.The flight tracker that powered @ElonJet has taken a left turn.How is it legal to track private planes like Elon Musk's?US hacks back against Hive ransomware crew.Twitter co-founder says Elon Musk 'doesn't seem like' the right person to own company.Everything Samsung Announced at Galaxy Unpacked 2023.Live test of Clear Calling.Google's Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week's layoffs.Intel just took the worst beating in earnings in over a decade.Android 13 QPR2 Beta 3 now available for Pixel phones.Latest Pixel Buds A-series 3.519.0 firmware update breaks Bluetooth pairing.YouTube TV losing MLB Network starting today.Google hosting in-person Cloud Next '23 this August.Chrome for Android rolling out fingerprint unlock for Incognito tabs.PSA: Gmail's new package tracking interface is now live if you know where to look.New leaked specs suggest 'Pixel Tablet Pro' might not be a thing after all.Acer's newest Chromebooks are built to be classroom-ready.Google says Lens and Maps Live View are 'prelude to [its] long-term vision' for AR.Google Fi says hackers accessed customers' information.Instagram's co-founders are mounting a comeback.Spotify axes podcast head Dawn Ostroff in cutbacks. Picks:Stacey - The Sorcerer of Pyongyang: A Novel.Jeff - Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won't connect smart appliances.Jeff - I'm on Team dog.Ant - You People.Ant - I'm Very Angry, So I'm Campaigning. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt 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:Miro.com/podcasteightsleep.com/twit

Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs.Interview with Richard Hay.Google Slashes Jobs at Incubator Area 120 as Part of Cuts.Meta to Reinstate Trump's Facebook and Instagram Accounts.AmazonSmile set to close, Amazon announces.Mastodon founder has a message for Elon Musk.Twitter's new developer terms ban third-party clients.Elon Musk Explores Raising Up to $3 Billion to Help Pay Off Twitter Debt.Ivory: The Magnificent Mastodon App.We tried to run a social media site and it was awful.DOJ sues Google over its dominance in online advertising market.Justice Department calls for breakup of Google in new antitrust lawsuit.More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft.ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor.@divergencearran: Earlier this evening @kevinrose was phished into signing a malicious signature that allowed the hacker to transfer a large number of high-value tokens.ChatGPT is enabling script kiddies to write functional malware.T-Mobile (TMUS) Says Hacker Stole Data for 37 Million Customers.PCs past fans: active cooling chip.HBO's 'The Last of Us' Infects Your Google Search With Creepy Fungus.To Leslie' and the word-of-mouth campaign that got Andrea Riseborough an Oscar nomination.Virginia man sues Chick-fil-A in SF court over sharing data with Facebook.The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off.Google Clock 7.4 update tests buttons for ending alarms.Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2.1 rolling out with Bluetooth and 5G fixes for Pixel.Google Meet making it easier to share files during calls.Waze now supports Android Auto's 'Coolwalk' dashboard; will users actually start getting it now? Picks:Stacey - Jabra 85H.Stacey - The AirPods Pro 2nd gen as smart hearables puts a smile on my face.Jeff - The library that Jeff wants.Ant - StellaPro Reflex-S On Sale. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Guest: Richard Hay 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:CDW.com/HPE

Twitter Auction CompleteTwitter is blocking third-party clients like Tweetbot and TwitterrificSawyer Merritt on Twitter: "Boston Dynamics shows of their robots latest skillsTesla staged 2016 self-driving demo, says senior Autopilot engineerTwitter admits it's breaking third-party apps, cites 'long-standing API rules'Google Images Was Created Because Of Jennifer LopezLeo's wake-up callDozens of media companies set 2023 content deals with TwitterFree the nipple: Facebook and Instagram told to end ban on bare breastsNew Study: No, Of Course Russian Twitter Trolls Didn't Impact The 2016 Election | TechdirtSaunas and cold shockGoogle's brief to SCOTUS on 230Nick Cave says imitation ChatGPT song is 'a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human'Point-by-point rebuttal of that litigationReid Hoffman makes a podcast with ChatGPTNest cofounder's next thing: mail your dessicated food waste to him for chickenfeedGoogle ChangelogYouTube is testing a hub of free, cable-style channels | EngadgetYour Google Stadia controller won't be a paperweight after the service shuts down | EngadgetGoogle plans AirTag clone, will track devices with 3 billion Android phonesGoogle Translate now supports 33 new languages offlineFitbit step and heart rate data is appearing in Google FitChromeOS 109 rolling out with a tweak to how Android apps launchGoogle's bringing new features to older versions of AndroidAndroid Auto redesign rolling out draggable seek bar in music appsGoogle Discover rolls out three-column UI ahead of Pixel TabletAndroid 13 is running on 5.2% of all devices five months after launchWe like this compost binGovee Smart KettleState Dept phases out Times Roman in favor of 14 pt CalibriI'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays by Tom SeguraMarshawn Lynch Shows Kevin Hart Beast Mode In The Cold Tubs Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt 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:GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT