TNW 313: Busting the NameDrop FUD - Amazon Q, Gen Z Generative AI, Gmail Deletion
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Amazon has entered the realm of companies offering their very own AI assistant that they've dubbed Amazon Q. How Gen Z is driving the adoption of Generative AI, in the U.K. at least. And starting December 1st, unused Gmail accounts may be permanently deleted if they have been inactive for at least two years.
- Amazon announced its own AI assistant called Amazon Q. Emily Dreibelbis of PCMag stops by to talk about the Amazon Q chatbot.
- Dan Moren of SixColors joins the show to reassure you that iOS 17's NameDrop feature is not dangerous at all.
- Jason Howell shares a study on how Gen Z in the U.K. is driving the general adoption of Generative AI.
- And Mikah Sargent warns us that if you have a Gmail account you haven't used in some time, it may be permanently deleted starting in the beginning of December.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Emily Dreibelbis and Dan Moren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on Tech News Weekly, I'm Jason Howell and I start things off talking with |
| 0:04.3 | Emily Dry Belbus from PC mag. She talks all about Amazon's new AI offering for |
| 0:09.3 | business with a single letter Q. And I'm Micah sergeant and I am joined by Dan Moran of six colors.com to talk about |
| 0:19.2 | name drop that feature that has local police a little concerned but don't worry it's not something you need to worry about |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah should should it be worrisome? I don't think so also there's a study that caught my eye that's all about technology trends in the UK |
| 0:33.9 | specifically it focuses at least a part of it on AI trends and the youth of the UK and |
| 0:40.3 | apparently Gen Z is all in on generative AI. Hmm and I round out the |
| 0:44.4 | round out the show with a PSA if you've got a Google account |
| 0:48.4 | you might want to log in if you haven't used it in a while. |
| 0:51.6 | It's all of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
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| 1:05.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 313 recorded Thursday, November 30th, 2023. |
| 1:12.0 | Bustin the Name Drop Fudd. |
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