May 31st 2023
This Week in Google 718
Clean As a Whistle
AI scientist statement, Nvidia Spectrum-X, Amazon's kill list, Mirai botnet
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- Why AI Scientists Are Freaking Us Out.
- Pessimists Archive.
- Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already.
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI.
- Stacey gets grilled on AI.
- Big Tech Isn’t Prepared for A.I.’s Next Chapter.
- George Hotz wants to ‘make driving chill’ with next-gen Comma 3 hands-free driver assist.
- The Spectrum-X ethernet switch offers ""lossless"" transmission via a new kind of congestion control, says Nvidia.
- Once Mighty Intel Struggles to Escape ‘Mud Hole’.
- The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet.
- Google starts rolling out Search Generative Experience (SGE) in preview.
- Google Assistant’s 3rd-party Notes & Lists integration is shutting down.
- Messages Magic Compose beta starts rolling out: RCS only, priority for Google One subs.
- NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV will support unlimited simultaneous streams.
- Google quietly ends support for decade-old Chromecast.
- YouTube Stories, Google’s clone of Snapchat, is dying on June 26.
- 230: Supreme Court rejects lawsuit that sought to hold Reddit responsible for hosting child pornography.
- Amazon’s Kill List: 37 Projects That Are No More.
- Twitter may be worth only a third of its pre-Musk value, Fidelity says.
- Sonos wins $32.5 million patent infringement victory over Google.
- Leo previews new Mastodon features.
Picks:
- Stacey - Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond.
- Jeff - Wonderful discussion between Reid Hoffman & Trevor Noah.
- Jeff - Google offloading 1.4 million square feet of Bay Area office space.
- Ant - Talking Science and Sports with Stephen A Smith and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
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Links
- Why AI Scientists Are Freaking Us Out — The Information
- Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already - IEEE Spectrum
- Good Schneier on the impact of LLaMA and open-source LLMs
- The Spectrum-X ethernet switch offers "lossless" transmission via a new kind of congestion control, says Nvidia.
- The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet - IEEE Spectrum
- Google starts rolling out Search Generative Experience (SGE) in preview
- Google Assistant’s 3rd-party Notes & Lists integration is shutting down
- Messages Magic Compose beta starts rolling out: RCS only, priority for Google One subs
- NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV will support unlimited simultaneous streams
- Google quietly ends support for decade-old Chromecast
- YouTube Stories, Google’s clone of Snapchat, is dying on June 26
- 230: Supreme Court rejects lawsuit that sought to hold Reddit responsible for hosting child pornography
- Andy Jassy's kill list
- Twitter may be worth only a third of its pre-Musk value, Fidelity says
- Sonos wins $32.5 million patent infringement victory over Google
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- Wonderful discussion between Reid Hoffman & Trevor Noah
- Google offloading 1.4 million square feet of Bay Area office space
- Talking Science and Sports with Stephen A Smith and Neil DeGrasse Tyson