Jan 29th 2025
This Week in Google 804
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Death Roulette, Influencer Voice, HillmanTok
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Leo's AI Toys
- DeepSeek
- How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
- Mark Zuckerberg post re: Llama 4
- 17th Century Death Roulette ☠️
- Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps app after government updates
- 23andMe might sell itself as it runs out of money
- The rise of 'influencer voice': Why this TikTok creator accent is taking over the internet and maybe the world
- Paris' new TV
- Scoldy Mastodon
- Pluralistic: It’s not a crime if we do it with an app (25 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Comcast unveils ultra-low lag Internet connection
- Dr. Barlow and HIllmanTok
- Philip Low, long-time friend and peer of Elon Musk, posts open letter calling him out for what he is.
- Why doesn’t Siri know what it doesn’t know?
- New Vatican document examines potential and risks of AI
- Technological puritanism
- All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
- By Paris: Before Google’s $2.7 Billion Deal With AI Startup, a Stark Warning on Safety
- The mayor of Merrymac
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