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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From King to Exile to King Again: The Inside Story of Sam Altman's Whiplash Week OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Ilya Sutskever on X: "I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company." Altman Argued With OpenAI Board Member Toner Before Ouster Microsoft exits OpenAI drama with 'one of best possible outcomes' Dear...

Discussion of upcoming Black Friday sales on Google Pixel phones and tablets Concerns with the Pixel tablet including laggy performance, inability to use independently from dock, and high pricing Leo shares his epiphany on the usefulness of AI for expert systems and personalized agents Demonstration of Leo's custom AI assistants for Lisp and Emacs programming languages Talk of Elon Musk's reputation decline after acquiring Twitter Discussion of studies showing people perceive...

OpenAI debuts GPTs allowing companies to further optimize GPT-4 for specific domains. Article 45, an EU regulation, will roll back web security by 12 years by banning website fingerprinting used for fraud detection. GM halts production on its Cruise driverless van over safety concerns after recent crashes. The SAG strike continues as negotiations with AMPTP stall. AMPTP proposed using AI to replace actors. AI academics voice concerns about AI CEOs like Sam Altman having too much...

Facebook's demographic targeting and personalized recommendations Government regulations for controlling AI in the US The threat of militarization of AI and autonomous weapons Eco-friendly transportation like blimps and cross-country train trips Don LaFontaine's train car recordings Google's questionable business practices and dominance Viral courtroom sketches from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX trial Google switching to mobile-first indexing Google's new .ing domain name Humane's new...

DMV suspends Cruise's robo-taxi permit in San Francisco after pedestrian accident Debate over regulating approval process for autonomous vehicles between NHTSA and NTSB Analysis of Google's disappointing Q3 financial results and advertising revenue drop Impact of dating apps like Tinder on relationships and matchmaking The demise of Twitter rival Pebble aka T2 Online interactions and social media - federation, verification, addiction Lawsuits and moral panic surrounding Meta and...

Elon Musk says charging $1 a year to Twitter users could reduce bots VC Mark Andreessen loses it in controversial tech manifesto Meta Quest 3 brings back glassholes to the wild Amazon launches satellites to compete with SpaceX Starlink Peter Norvig and Blaise Aguera y Arcas claim AGI is already here 51% of teens spend 4+ hours daily on social media YouTube getting AI-powered ads targeting pop culture moments Mass tech layoffs in 2022 - reasonable correction or problematic? Google...

Google's "enshittification" memos A Note From WIRED Leadership Moonlighting comes to Hulu... starring Jeff Jarvis! Elon Musk's X Strips Article Headlines on Shared Links Did Elon Musk Endorse Biden, Come Out as Transgender and Die of Suicide? Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X's Efforts to Curb Israel-Hamas War Disinformation Sure, There's Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship Alexa says the 2020 election was stolen. What does it mean for 2024? The...

Google's Pixel hardware event and new devices Debate over adding AI to search functions - risks to accuracy? Laws challenging social media's First Amendment rights Movies released on TikTok by studios High production costs of Masterclass Streaming vs DVDs and the shrinking open web Spotify's attempts to expand beyond music in audiobooks Amazon's algorithms manipulating prices Supreme Court case involving copyright of legal search tools Paywalls and closed platforms replacing the open...

Google's 25th birthday Google killing off Google Podcasts Next week's Pixel hardware event Meta's VR/AR announcements and new Ray-Ban smartglasses with cameras Antitrust lawsuits against Google and Amazon AI voice cloning for automatic translation by YouTube, Spotify WGA writer's strike in Hollywood ending with AI concessions Meta adding AI bots everywhere Books scanned to train AI models in searchable database The viability of foldable laptop screens Premium $500/month Tinder...

The group discusses the DOJ's antitrust case against Google's search dominance. The hosts debate whether AI will help or harm the fight against online disinformation. Leo and Joan discuss the challenges of internet safety and regulation in the UK. Google news includes: Chromebook lifespan extended to 10 years, Android 14 QPR beta, Google Calendar appointment booking, Nest speaker groups limited, and Google Domains transferred to Squarespace. Leo and Joan talk about the New York Times job...

Google pays more than $10 billion per year for these privileged positions Trademark Genericide And One Big Way The DOJ Admits That Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google Is Utter Garbage YouTube under no obligation to host anti-vaccine advocate's videos, court says Google's cookie-replacing Privacy Sandbox reaches major milestone Google teaser previews Pixel Watch 2 and both Pixel 8 phones NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube is a hit, with more subscribers than when it was on DirecTV Google will...

Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Online Safety Bill When Tech Says "No" Apple Backs Down on Its Controversial Photo-Scanning Plans The FBI secretly launched an encrypted messaging system for criminals Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia Jeff Jarvis Moving on From CUNY Judge strikes down porn age-verification law in Texas : NPR The Department of Defense Launches the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office Website Caltech drops calculus, chemistry, physics...

Google announces Pixel 8 launch event for October 4th Samsung buys popular meal planning app Whisk and rebrands it as Samsung Food Google discontinues Pixel Pass subscription bundle after just one year Chrome OS 116 adding auto correct and local file search Google Chat adding voice messages and interoperability with Slack and Teams Elon Musk makes controversial appearance at Valorant esports tournament Tesla planning LA supercharger location with diner and drive-in movie theater...

Heritage Minister says Meta news block endangers lives as Canadians flee wildfires Canadian Media Orgs Said That Meta Linking To News Was Anticompetitive; Now They Say NOT Linking To News Is Anticompetitive The Bill C-18 Regulation Fake-Out: Setting the Record Straight on When Bill C-18 Takes Effect and the Regulation Making Process Elon Musk's Shadow Rule How is Spotify doing with its podcast business? Spotify will let podcasters customize their show page to bring in new listeners...