Google’s Monopoly Money + Is the A.I. Bubble Popping? + The Hot-Mess Express

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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“Maybe this actually is a chance to press the reset button on the internet.”

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0:00.0	I was
0:05.0	misinformation.
0:06.0	misinformation.
0:08.0	So I got very excited because I saw a post going around on X
0:12.0	that said that they have a plane that flies all of the
0:17.1	horses to the Olympics and that the plane is called Air Horse One.
0:24.0	Oh, come on!
0:25.0	And so I repeated this fact to everyone I met
0:30.0	in the span of like three or four days,
0:32.0	and then I looked it up and Casey would you believe that that is made up?
0:36.1	Oh well you hate to hear that I would love for that to be true. How do the horses get over there?
0:40.6	So there are planes that fly the horses. That part is real.
0:44.1	Okay. And there is actually a plane called Air Horse One, but the company that runs Air Horse One
0:51.0	did not transport any of the Olympic horses. What does Air Horse One did not transport any of the Olympic horses.
0:53.3	What does Air Horse One do?
0:55.0	I mean it transport horses, but it's not being used in this Olympics.
0:58.0	I mean, I think by the naming conventions of the United States,
1:01.1	Air Horse One has only one job and that has to fly the President's horse.
1:04.0	So if it's not doing that, I don't know what it's doing.
1:08.0	And I'd love to find out. I'm Kevin Rousa Tech columnist at the New York Times.
1:17.0	I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
1:19.0	And this is hard for this week Google loses the biggest tech antitrust case in a quarter century.
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