This Week in Google

Interview with Keach Hagey
The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman's Firing From OpenAI
OpenAI's Latest Funding Round Comes With a $20 Billion Catch
Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is...

Interview with Gary Rivlin
A new, challenging AGI test stumps most AI models
"KI ist nur ein Werkzeug. Jedes Werkzeug kann missbraucht werden"
Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an 'AI...

Interview with Anthony Aguirre
The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of "AI safety" and "AI fairness" and prioritizes "reducing ideological bias" in models...

Interview with Ray Kurzweil
Liquid eggs? NYC bodegas have new strategy to keep bacon, egg and cheese prices down
Google announces Gemini Robotics for building general purpose robots
DeepMind's...

Interview with Gary Marcus
Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion
Satya Nadella Argues AI's True Value Will...

Interview with Stephen Wolfram
OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom
Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
Artists release...

Interview with the founders of Bee.computer
Would Paris or Jeff get a Bee?
Scarlett Johansson Urges Government to Limit A.I. After Faked Video of Her Opposing Kanye West Goes Viral
Microsoft...

Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy to lead the CFTC
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says...

Interview with Zack Kass, Former GTM for Open AI
Why you can deep-six the DeepSeek hype
Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand, giving fresh life to...

"Stargate" Squares Some AI Circles
Old enough to remember Trump's Foxconn factory
What Stargate Means and What It Doesn't
Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law
SkyTok,...

Justice Kagan Acknowledges Bluesky, And Other Notes From The TikTok Oral Argument
Alito and Playboy
A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized...

Meta is ending its fact-checking program in favor of a 'community notes' system similar to X
(30+) kottke.org: "oh shit new logo just dropped"
Masnick: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta's...

Jeff's op-ed proposing that Bell Labs be turned into a Museum and School of the Internet
Paris reveals her passion for pruning trees in NY
Molly White's first appearance, stupid Wikipedia edit...

Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to TikTok ban
U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made Router in Millions of American Homes
Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack...

Google introduces its new generative AI video model, Veo. TikTok is fighting back, seeking to pause the US ban pending a review from the Supreme Court. A judge is currently blocking the sale of...

Amazon is being sued over slow deliveries to lower-incomer areas. What is the Oxford University's 2024 word of the year? Canada's antitrust watchdog is suing Google over alleged anti-competitive...

Paris' stuffing recipe.
Source: Google has canceled the Pixel Tablet 2, not the Tab 3.
Meta gains steam in its push to make Apple, Google verify users' ages.
A complex new age of face tech....

DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome to break search Monopoly.
Trump's pick for FCC chair has vowed crackdown on big tech 'censorship'.
Musk joined call between Trump, Google CEO.
CFPB looks...

Mark Zuckerberg just released his own NSFW version of 'Get Low' in a tribute to his wife
Mattel Mistakenly Lists Porn Site on Packaging for 'Wicked' Dolls
The Crypto Industry's Spending on the...

Tech in the new Admin
TikTok Sees Trump Victory As App's Best Hope
Jeff Bezos congratulates Trump for 'extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory'
Elon Musk says Trump win is just the...