Sep 27th 2023
This Week in Google 735
Outside of the Nerdery
Google's 25th birthday, Meta Ray-Bans, Amazon and Google antitrust trial
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mike Elgan
- 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 subscriptions
- Picks: SummaryCat, GrapeGPT, Blackmagic Cinema camera 6K, Starter Villain book, Korg MS-20 Mini synth
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Links
- Google celebrates its 25th birthday today
- 10 favorite things Google killed off in its 25 years
- Google kills Google Podcasts
- [Exclusive] Google Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro camera features revealed through promo video
- Google could give the Pixel 8 seven years of updates
- Foldable PC
- Mark Zuckerberg went 33 minutes without saying ‘metaverse’ at his keynote
- Meta Rayban specs (Mike)
- FTC and 17 states sue Amazon on antitrust charges
- 5 arguments against the FTC's Amazon case
- Apple defends Google Search deal in court: ‘There wasn’t a valid alternative’
- FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality
- Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation - researcher
- WGA, Hollywood studios reach a tentative deal to end writers' strike - Los Angeles Times
- Google Search caught indexing users' conversations with Bard AI | VentureBeat
- Meta is putting AI chatbots everywhere
- Turning conversation with AI around: It interviews us
- YouTube to add AI creator tools to find music for videos, add dubs | TechCrunch
- Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages
- "THESE 183,000 BOOKS ARE FUELING THE BIGGEST FIGHT IN PUBLISHING AND TECH Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines."
- Getty Enters Generative AI Space
- Tinder Unveils $500-Per-Month Service to Select Users - The Messenger
- Sumary Cat
- GrapeGPT
- NFTs worth 3% of what they were in 2021
- New Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K
- Check out Starter Villain
- Korg MS-20 Mini synthesizer