Oct 4th 2023
This Week in Google 736
Socks on the Beach
Pixel 8, Chromebook Plus, paid social media, what happened to Masterclass?
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Paris Martineau
- Google's Pixel hardware event and new devices
- Debate over adding AI to search functions - risks to accuracy?
- Laws challenging social media's First Amendment rights
- Movies released on TikTok by studios
- High production costs of Masterclass
- Streaming vs DVDs and the shrinking open web
- Spotify's attempts to expand beyond music in audiobooks
- Amazon's algorithms manipulating prices
- Supreme Court case involving copyright of legal search tools
- Paywalls and closed platforms replacing the open web
- Pushback against heroic tech biographies and access journalism
- Impacts of inexpensive screens and cameras everywhere
- Testing social media subscription models
- Using AI to create realistic fake photos and videos
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Links
- #MadeByGoogle ‘23: Keynote - YouTube
- Google’s Pixel Watch 2 refines last year’s template
- The Pixel 8 Pro hands-on: better cameras, a brighter screen, and new AI - The Verge
- Yaccarino's terrible interview
- X will be profitable in 2024, CEO claims in tense interview | TechCrunch
- Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities
- Pixel 8 ad wants you to switch, shows AI face replacements [Video]
- Netflix DVD closing marks the end of something even bigger.
- Supreme Court to decide landmark Texas, Florida social media cases and more - The Washington Post
- Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook - WSJ
- Spotify Gave Subscribers Music and Podcasts. Next: Audiobooks. - The New York Times
- US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network - BBC News
- Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices - WSJ
- Anthropic in Talks to Raise $2 Billion From Google and Others Just Days After Amazon Investment — The Information
- How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson - The Verge
- Rewind pendant
- Fascinating Westlaw v. LLM case; brief Jeff note
- Paramount Put Mean Girls on TikTok
- MasterClass Takes a Crash Course in Frugality
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Sphere (and the impact of cheap screens)
- How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear | Mirrors in Movies: Part II
- It's October - Raising Awareness for Breast Cancer