May 1st 2024
This Week in Google 766
Area Man Buys Onion
Alphabet Hits 2 Trillion, DJI Ban, FCC Fines
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- Google is building a fart button into Android
- The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all
- Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength
- Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia
- Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico
- Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
- Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok
- A Chinese Firm Is America’s Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.
- FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data
- The FCC just doled out big privacy fines. It could soon lose that power.
- Supreme Court Rejects Musk’s ‘Twitter Sitter’ Appeal in SEC Win
- Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion
- Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
- Musk Wins China’s Backing for Tesla’s Driver-Assistance Service
- Elizabeth Spiers: That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk’s Flaws
- Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles and public policy team
- Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction
- Bruce Perens proposes draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
- Remember that Sora balloon video?
- From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
- Related: Yann LeCun & AI as 4-year-old
- Is history repeating itself? I have concerns.
- The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now
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Links
- Google is building a fart button into Android - The Verge
- The Rabbit R1 is loosely based on Android after all
- Alphabet Leaps Into $2 Trillion Club as Results Show AI Strength - Bloomberg
- Google plans $3 billion data center investment in Indiana, Virginia | Reuters
- Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico
- Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint - The Verge
- Meet the powerful tech insiders behind the push to ban TikTok - The Washington Post
- A Chinese Firm Is America’s Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington. - The New York Times
- FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing location data - The Verge
- The FCC just doled out big privacy fines. It could soon lose that power.
- Supreme Court Rejects Musk’s ‘Twitter Sitter’ Appeal in SEC Win - Bloomberg
- Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson Has Some Serious Plans for The Onion — The Information
- Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes
- Musk Wins China’s Backing for Tesla’s Driver-Assistance Service
- Elizabeth Spiers: That Strange Piece of Metal Origami Embodies All Elon Musk’s Flaws
- Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles and public policy team
- Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction
- Bruce Perens proposes draft Post-Open Zero Cost License • The Register
- Remember that Sora balloon video?
- My op-ed in Editor & Publisher
- Related: Yann LeCun & AI as 4-year-old
- The Cheyenne Supercomputer is going for a fraction of its list price at auction right now