This Week in Google (Audio)

• 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.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt

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