This Week in Google (Audio)

• The White House details its IoT cybersecurity label plan.
• Framework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open.
• Pluralistic: Why they're smearing Lina Khan (14 July 2023).
• Mark Lucovsky Leaves Google, Calls Company "Unstable".
• Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama.
• Apple is testing an AI chatbot but has no idea what to do with it.
• Why computer-made data is being used to train AI models.
• G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics.
• AI can't even tell you the chronological order of 'Star Wars' movies.
• OpenAI strikes $5 million-plus local news deal.
• Devindra: AI put me in a 'South Park' episode.
• The risks of AI are real but manageable.
• This AI Watches Millions Of Cars And Tells Cops If You're Driving Like A Criminal.
• Google launches Nearby Share for Windows and partnering to pre-install.
• Google confirms related search operator is going away.
• Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds.
• Now Google's Bard AI chatbot can talk and respond to visual prompts.
• PSA: Google is deleting some old Hangouts photos this week.

Picks:

• Stacey - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Leo - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
• Leo - Click for a random web 1.0 web site
• Jeff - Vox Media stops using Chorus, proprietary CMS, for its own websites
• Ant - Peak Design Camera Cube
• Ant - Yellowgold - This Road

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

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