• 'Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
• TikTok ban would be a gift from Congress to Meta and Google
• How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge
• The Chilling of TikTok
• FTC Bans Noncompete Agreements That Restrict Job Switching
• Sam Altman-backed crypto project Worldcoin faces an orb shortage
• Paris' nuts
• Rabbit R1
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• More wearable AI: IYO One
• The Man Who Killed Google Search
• Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality'
• The solution to scary Boston Dynamics bots? Make robots hairy
• Meta shares plummet 10% after second quarter outlook disappoints
• Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to 'bring back the open web'
• Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam
• Bravely Exploring the Squalor of a 'Boy Room'
• This fun little web game: Equinox.Space
• magCulture
• No one buys books

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• Craig Newmark the Pigeon Man / more AI Music
• Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
• Marques Brownlee calls the Humane AI pin "the worst product I've ever reviewed."
• limitless ai
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• Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She's been one of its biggest obstacles.
• Experts Provide Early Analysis of the American Privacy Rights Act
• Unclear Protections in the American Privacy Rights Act Not Worth Broad Preemption
• Google tests stopping news links in California because of CJPA
• Whoops! Computer error leads to wrong couple getting divorced
• Hey, Paris: How Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months
• Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens
• Panic-as-a-Business is Expanding
• Crypto Trader Searched Web for 'Fraud' Before $110 Million Haul
• 'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
• Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
• Prophet Song
• Strands, the superior NYT game
• Cow magnets
• Vinod Khosla's tech-determinist TED wet dream

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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• Google Shows AI Model Is Enterprise-Ready After Gemini Mishaps
• The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
• FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband
• Talking about the old internet
• Jeff's paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act
• Twitter's Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers
• Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
• SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
• NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom
• First look at federal privacy bill
• Instagram Generated Almost 30% of Meta's Revenue in Early 2022
• Elon Musk's 'self-inflicted wounds' and other highlights from a newly released deposition
• 5 Workspace announcements from Google Cloud Next '24
• Fitbit app rolling out redesigned Sleep stats
• Google's Nest Secure is shut down — and you've got options besides ADT
• Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free
• The wonderful world of Taskmaster
• Also! A report from the teens at PS 47
• Mario meets Pareto
• Suno music

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• The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
• Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2024
• Why YouTube Decided to Take Over Cable Television
• YouTube is increasing the price of premium (Red) subscription by nearly 50%
• Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
• Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit
• 20 years of Gmail
• AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
• Yahoo is acquiring Artifact to bring its AI features to Yahoo News
• Amazon's Grocery Stores to Drop Just Walk Out Checkout Tech
• Google is Bringing Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 and Circle to Search to More Devices
• Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners
• Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser
• Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Are Going 'AI-First,' Yum's New Tech Chief Says
• Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his podcast
• Apple sues former iOS engineer for allegedly leaking Vision Pro, Journal app details
• Very good by Katie Harbath: Digging Into Ten Overused Tech Tropes
• Hume, an "empathic" voice-to-voice AI chatbot
• Harvard Releases the Caselaw Access Project
• Ant: I streamed with Logitech's Mevo Core camera and it nearly beat out my $3,600 Canon

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• Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90
• Andrew Huberman's Mechanisms of Control
• Bill Maher to Launch Podcast Network
• Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
• AI news that's fit to print
• How Google uses AI to improve global flood forecasting
• Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America
• 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here's the Inside Story
• BBC develops AI plans and talks to Big Tech over archives access
• Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons
• Collective AI' expected to resemble Star Trek's Borg — only nicer (hopefully)
• Microsoft's new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel
• Microsoft Agreed to Pay Inflection $650 Million While Hiring Its Staff
• Scientists turn to AI to make beer taste even better
• Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79
• Here's why AI search engines really can't kill Google
• Instagram co-founders' AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all
• Intercept sues OpenAI not on copyright but on DMCA
• Google Chat rolling out voice messages for Workspace
• Gemini in Google Messages beta rolling out for some
• Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert
• General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers
• Critics of the TikTok Bill Are Missing the Point
• ELON MUSK FOUGHT GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE — WHILE PROFITING OFF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE
• MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical
• [Exclusive] Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders; will launch alongside Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL
• Shine by Sunshine on the App Store
• Good by David Kaye on the risks of internet regulation
• Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring parental consent for kids under 16 to hold social media accounts
• Tennessee Adopts ELVIS Act, Protecting Artists' Voices From AI Impersonation
• Apple's Journal app
• The fish doorbell
• 'Beyond our wildest dreams': How the Forward removed its paywall – and generated 37% more revenue
  New Google NY office has foot-washing station
• Sign o' the Times: Brooklyn apartment building to include podcast studio

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• Matt Levine attracts online ire for column, 'Slorg Is Sorry He Burnt Slerf'
• AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead Long live AI prompt engineering
• Sam Bankman-Fried Says 50-Year Sentence Only Suitable for a 'Super Villain'
• Google hit with $270M fine in France as authority finds news publishers' data was used for Gemini
• Mikah & Jeff react to nVidia event
• OpenAI is expected to release a 'materially better' GPT-5 for its chatbot mid-year
• OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam
• The Check Up with Google Health
• Big changes at Inflection AI & Microsoft
• From the mind that brought you 'Livvy Just Rizzed Up Baby Gronk,' an important update
• Festival crowd boos San Francisco techies over 'AI is a culture' video
• The End of Evangelion in theaters
• Landline Users Remain Proudly 'Old-Fashioned' in the Digital Age
• Minders App

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• Told You So: Amazon, Google Quietly Tamp Down Generative AI Expectations
• European Lawmakers Approve Landmark AI Legislation
• TikTok Will Use Every Legal Tool to Fight a Forced Sale
• ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick expressed interest in buying TikTok, floated the idea of partnering w/ Sam Altman and others
• Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
• Karl Bode breaks it down at TechDirt
• Ed's podcast episode about Musk's Uncharitable Charity
• Elon boots a Don Lemon show after a tough interview
• Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social
• New Google Messages Feature Lets You Turn Blue Chat Bubbles Green (or Orange, or Purple)
• Google's updated sign-in page appears to be rolling out widely
• The Disruptors
• AP launches e-commerce site with Taboola
• Last pressrun at the LA Times

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martineau

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• OpenAI and Elon Musk
• Something Like Fire
• Former Twitter Executives Sue Musk Over Unpaid Severance
• Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
• Life House CEO Departs After The Information's Report on Company
• South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch's sudden exit
• Here Come the AI Worms
• Open letter: A Safe Harbor for Independent AI Evaluation
• Microsoft engineer who raised concerns about Copilot image creator pens letter to the FTC
• Pixel phones just got next-gen call screening
• Complying with the Digital Markets Act
• GOOGLE PREPARES TO LAUNCH NEW APP STORE CALLED "APP MALL" FOR CHROMEOS
• Google is starting to squash more spam and AI in search results
• Google Maps is testing a feature that shows you where to enter a building
• Google Business Profile websites are now redirected to Google Maps
• Pixel feature drop: New productivity tools and advanced health features
• 6 updates to Waze to help you get around safely and conveniently
• Satellite SOS showing up on some Pixel phones
• classvsoftware/under-new-management: Detect when your installed Chrome extensions have changed owners.
• Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site
• Paying with VisionPro
• When students use generative AI, it's "cheating." When teachers use it, it's efficiency....
• Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads

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• Gemini and Google's Culture
• Klarna says its OpenAI virtual assistant does the work of 700 humans
• OpenAI says New York Times 'hacked' ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit
• Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI
• Kids left disappointed by Willy Wonka theme park grift
• Google co-founder Sergey Brin sued over a plane crash that killed two pilots last year
• MWC 2024: Motorola's Rollable Concept phone laughs at your silly foldable
• Peering through Lenovo's transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
• Samsung unveils the Galaxy Ring as a way to 'simplify everyday wellness'
• The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn't
• New bitcoin spot ETF trading volume sets daily record, besting launch day
• Supreme Court Arguments on Social Media Laws Are Scrutinized
• Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption
• Third Time's a Charm — Lunar Library Successfully Lands on the Moon — Backup of Human Civilization Will Last for Up To Billions of Years.
• AT&T is giving customers a bill credit following massive outage
• Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT
• Jensen Huang, CEO of #Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
• Doomsters write another letter
• Wear OS is revamping notifications to improve battery life
• Google brings Gemini to Messages and adds AI text summaries for Android Auto
• Chrome's new AI feature can help you write on the web
• Meta Wants Llama 3 to Handle Contentious Questions as Google Grapples With Gemini Backlash
• Google Maps is finally making glanceable directions widely available
• Some Kind of Heaven
• Mom's first VR
  

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• Introducing Molly White
• Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
• Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform
• End of an era: The phone book goes the way of the fax machine as it drops through doors for the very last time after almost 150 years
• Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot
• Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
• How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
• Walmart agrees to buy Vizio to grow ad business
• Nielsen crowns YouTube #1 Streamer in America 12 months straight!
• Untranslatable foreign words
• Molly on Sam Bankman-Fried
• Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.'s Hottest Start-Ups
• Kids Online Safety Act secures enough support to pass Senate
• New Google sign in
• Waze new features
• 'Rat Dck' Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal
• TikTokker vs her breakdancing bitcoin dad
• Mathematical and Puzzle Fonts/Typefaces - Leo's Pick
• chocolate 3-d printer
• 'I love to twirl the cord': the young people pushing for a landline renaissance
• wiki edit wars
• ChatGPT goes temporarily "insane" with unexpected outputs, spooking users

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