Dec 20th 2023
This Week in Google 747
In an Abundance of Caution
AI Patents, Pig Butchering Scams, ChevyGPT
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
- Google's $700 million Play Store settlement
- Cox Media Group claims they can listen in on your conversations
- Police don't get Google's location data anymore
- How billionaires spend their money on immortality
- No more AI Facial Recognition for Rite Aid
- UK Supreme Court rules that an AI cannot patent an invention
- Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
- Apple watches sales to stop on December 21
- 515 Wordles and what we learned
- Jeff tries to hook up Salthank
- Google restructures ad sales
- Chevy's ChatGPT pitches Teslas and sells cars for $1
- A group representing TikTok, Meta sues Utah over social media age limits
- EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war
- Tesla Autopilot fix falls short, according to Consumer Reports
- Flipboard enters the fediverse
- Om: Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography
- Not Gmail dot com, but Gail dot com
- Instacart's numbers
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Links
- Google to Pay $700 Million in Play Store Settlement - WSJ
- Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
- Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access To Location Data
- Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Tech CEOs Spend Millions to Find How to Live Longer - Bloomberg
- Rite Aid (RADCQ) Is Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse - Bloomberg
- AI cannot be patent 'inventor', UK Supreme Court rules in landmark case | Reuters
- Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
- U.S. Apple Watch sales to halt December 21
- Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515 Million Wordles - The New York Times
- matchmaking for Hank
- Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma | Ars Technica
- Pig butchering scam results in four indictments, two arrests: DOJ
- 7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
- Google Plans Ad Sales Restructuring as Automation Booms
- ChatGPT-Powered Customer Support at Chevy Dealership Hilariously Recommends Buying a Tesla
- Andrew Ng tried to get ChatGPT to kill us--and failed
- Group representing TikTok, Meta sues Utah over social media age limits
- EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war
- Consumer Reports says Tesla’s Autopilot recall fix is ‘insufficient’
- Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse
- The four podcast stories that will shape 2024
- Om: Why Vision Pro Will Change Photography
- An Egg Fried Rice Recipe Shows the Absurdity of China’s Speech Limits
- Not Gmail dot com, but Gail dot com
- Instacart #s