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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."
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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

Guest: Stacey Higginbotham

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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
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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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
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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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
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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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
Hosts: Mikah Sargent, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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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

Guest: Ed Zitron

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