Oct 25th 2023
This Week in Google 739
Panic in the Cul-de-sac
Cruise ousted in CA, online dating, Humane AI Pin, Dimension 20
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- DMV suspends Cruise's robo-taxi permit in San Francisco after pedestrian accident
- Debate over regulating approval process for autonomous vehicles between NHTSA and NTSB
- Analysis of Google's disappointing Q3 financial results and advertising revenue drop
- Impact of dating apps like Tinder on relationships and matchmaking
- The demise of Twitter rival Pebble aka T2
- Online interactions and social media - federation, verification, addiction
- Lawsuits and moral panic surrounding Meta and Instagram's impact
- AI wearable technology like Humane AI pin's features and risks
- Google Chrome's dominance
- Ethics of AI - risks of automation, data poisoning, copyright
- Role of AI in society, regulating development, technology concerns
- Picks include - corn mazes, Dimension 20, Jezebel up for sale, Pixel 8 Pro camera review
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Links
- California DMV immediately suspends Cruise’s robotaxi permit | TechCrunch
- GOOG Exhibit 99.1 Q3 2023 - 2023q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf
- Tinder now lets friends and family pick your next date - The Verge
- Online dating is a personal nightmare. But very good for society.
- Pebble, the Twitter alternative previously known as T2, is shutting down
- New York attorney general hits Gemini, Genesis, and Digital Currency Group with lawsuit for defrauding investors of more than $1 billion | Fortune Crypto
- Meta sued by 42 AGs for addictive features targeting kids
- Humane’s AI Pin is powered by GPT-4 and has a “Trust Ring” - The Verge
- Chrome on macOS has been busted for more than a week now (and Paris is mad about it)
- Matter 1.2 brings robot vacuums, fridges, smoke alarms, and more - The Verge
- AI Godfathers Bengio and Hinton: Major tech companies should devote a third of AI budget to managing AI risk | VentureBeat
- *Really* bad French legislation to regulate AI
- Data poisoning (jeff will rant)
- Anthropic surveys Americans to collaboratively edit its AI constitution
- Ben Evans on leaving Twitter
- Google Search rolls out ‘About this image’ to help see if something was created by AI
- Google SGE rolling out AI image generator [U]
- Bard update adds better email summarization and image sharing
- Google’s updated AR beauty tools make it easier to buy cosmetics and hair dye
- consider the humble corn maze
- Burrow's End: the newest season of the actual play D&D show, D20, is incredible, and (fantastically) horrifying
- Chromebook Plus discounts
- Pixel 8 Pro Camera
- Feminist blogging site Jezebel up for sale
- A Million Miles Away