TNW 383: Google Loses DoJ Ad Tech Case - OpenAI, Zuckerberg, o3 & o4-mini
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Google's ad business takes a loss against the DoJ. OpenAI is working on its own social network. Inside Zuckerberg's negotiations to end the antitrust case against Meta. And ChatGPT's newest AI models is performing 'reverse location searches' from photos.
- Breaking news as the Department of Justice finds Google's Ad Tech violates antitrust laws.
- OpenAI is building a social network that looks to take on other social networks such as Meta and X. But why would OpenAI be interested in a social network?
- A Wall Street Journal article looks into Mark Zuckerberg's negotiations with the FTC to drop Meta's antitrust case.
- And ChatGPT's latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, are being utilized to perform 'reverse location searches' through uploaded photos.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Dan Morin of Six Colors is here. |
| 0:03.0 | We kick off the show by talking about the DOJ winning in its case against Google and its ad tech. |
| 0:09.0 | Then Open AI, rumored to be building a social network. |
| 0:14.0 | After that, Mark Zuckerberg just couldn't make it happen with the FTC and its own meta-antitrust case. |
| 0:22.8 | Before we round things out about chat GPT being used for reverse location search. |
| 0:29.9 | It's geogessing. |
| 0:31.0 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:35.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:37.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:40.1 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:43.6 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 383, with Dan Morin and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, April 17th, 2025. |
| 0:53.3 | Google loses DOJ ad tech case. |
| 0:57.1 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, |
| 0:59.8 | the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:05.0 | I am your host, Micah, Sergeant, and today I am joined by a special guest co-host. It is Dan Moran of Six Colors and |
| 1:15.9 | clockwise and other podcasts and activities. Hello, Dan. Yes, I do many activities, Micah. Thank you |
| 1:24.4 | for remembering all the things I do. It's a long list. |
| 1:28.1 | It is good to have you here on the show for people who are tuning in for the first time. |
| 1:37.4 | We typically have the start of the show where we have our stories of the week. |
| 1:43.3 | And then throughout the show, |
| 1:44.5 | we'll have on some guests who join us to talk about the things they're writing about or |
| 1:49.0 | that they are covering or have created. This week, it is a story of the week episode. I'm pleased |
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