Welcome to the Tech Name Right Home from Monday, May 8th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

What to expect from Google I.O. this week, the big discord username switch. Sam Altman's side hustle is

launching a thing, but also a look at the regulatory issues his open AI is facing in

Europe, and what if I told you an Ikea chair can short out your

monitor it's weird but it can here's what you miss today in the world of

tech putting it on your radar that Google I.O is this Wednesday. I think I covered it the day after last year,

but this year I'm going to cover it day of because I expect there to be so many announcements

especially around AI that we can't get behind on the news cycle so make a note

now that the show on Wednesday will post quite late that day, several hours late.

Among the things we can expect, according to the Wall Street Journal, is an almost complete

re-haul of how Google presents search.

Quote, for years,

alphabet Google has made minimal tweaks to the look and feel of search,

which powers an advertising business that made more than $162 billion

in revenue last year, but that is changing with the fast rise of AI

Chatbots and short video apps such as Tik-Tok, both of which have captured the

attention of younger users. Google plans to make its search engine more visual, snackable, personal, and

human with a focus on serving young people globally according to documents seen by the

journal. It plans to incorporate more human voices as part of the shift, supporting content creators

in the same way it has historically done with websites the documents say.

At its annual I.O. developer conference this coming week, the Search Giant is expected to debut new features

that allow users to carry out conversations with an artificial intelligence program. A project

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