Episodes
'It's Been Painful': What Jonah Peretti Says Went Wrong at BuzzFeed
The first Pulitzer prize for tech journalism in a decade!
Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry
Google is getting even worse for independent sites
Heat Death of the Internet
What's happening at Tesla? Here's what experts think.
They Put a 65-Foot Hot Dog in Times Square, and It's a Blast
Read the wild email Tesla is sending to suppliers amid Supercharger chaos
Lithium-free sodium...
Published 05/09/24
Google is building a fart button into Android
The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all
Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength
Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia
Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico
Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok
A Chinese Firm Is America's Favorite Drone Maker. Except...
Published 05/02/24
'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
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More wearable AI: IYO One
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating...
Published 04/25/24
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."
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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 Preemption
Google tests stopping news links in California because of...
Published 04/18/24
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 using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
NYC Chicken Shop...
Published 04/11/24
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 account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
Yahoo...
Published 04/04/24
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 Story
BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives...
Published 03/28/24
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 chatbot mid-year
OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam
The Check...
Published 03/21/24
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 podcast episode about Musk's Uncharitable Charity
Elon boots a Don...
Published 03/14/24
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 Copilot image creator pens letter to the FTC
Pixel phones just got...
Published 03/07/24
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 laughs at your silly foldable
Peering through Lenovo's transparent...
Published 02/29/24
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...
Published 02/22/24
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...
Published 02/15/24
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...
Published 02/08/24
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...
Published 02/01/24
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...
Published 01/25/24
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...
Published 01/18/24
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...
Published 01/11/24
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...
Published 01/04/24
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...
Published 12/26/23
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...
Published 12/21/23
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...
Published 12/14/23
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...
Published 12/07/23
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...
Published 11/30/23