TNW 432: How Wrong Are Google's AI Overviews? - Is Google's AI Overview Reliable?
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Amanda Silberling of TechCrunch joins Mikah Sargent on this episode of Tech News Weekly! How accurate are Google's AI Overviews? The usage of AI in investigative journalism. Artemis 2! And what Apple's next 50 years could look like.
- Mikah talks about a New York Times report that looks into the accuracy of Google's AI Overviews, which pull information from a group of various sources, from news articles to tabloids, and even social media posts.
- Amanda is fascinated by some tech reporters' slow adoption of utilizing AI in their journalistic process after coming across an article on the discovery of Bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Rod Pyle of This Week in Space joins the show to talk about the Artemis II space mission!
- And Scott Stein of CNET chats with Mikah about Apple's first 50 years and what the next 50 years may look like for the company.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Amanda Silberling
Guests: Rod Pyle and Scott Stein
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Amanda Soberling of TechCrunch is here. |
| 0:04.2 | We talk about Google's AI overviews. |
| 0:07.9 | It's a New York Times piece looking at the accuracy of the tool, |
| 0:12.0 | as well as a question of AI's use in journalism. |
| 0:16.6 | Then Rod Pyle of This Week in Space and at Astra Magazine tells us all about Artemis 2. |
| 0:23.5 | And Scott Stein of CNED joins us to talk about Apple's next 50 years. |
| 0:29.7 | Stay tuned with this episode of Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:35.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:37.0 | From people you trust. |
| 0:39.5 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 432, with Amanda Silverling and me, Micah Sargent, |
| 0:48.8 | recorded Thursday, April 9th, 2026. |
| 0:51.8 | How wrong are Google's AI overviews? |
| 0:55.2 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the |
| 0:59.7 | people making and breaking that tech news. I am your host, Micah Sargent, and this week I am |
| 1:04.8 | joined across this vast and ever-changing interweb by the wonderful Amanda Silberling. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello, Amanda. |
| 1:13.2 | Hello, Micah. |
| 1:14.6 | How are you? |
| 1:16.6 | Doing well. I have two drinks on my desk right now, so that's... |
| 1:20.6 | Two drinks and only one of them is alcoholic. |
| 1:23.7 | No, no, one of them is caffeinated, but neither are alcoholic. It is 2 p.m. in Philadelphia. |
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