TWiG 792: 5 to 10 People at your Door - Alphabet Earnings, RIP Foursquare, McFlurries

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Artificial Intelligence, Ai, Alphabet, Youtube, Twit, News, Technology, Google, Android, Tech News, Chrome

4.3 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

Google Preps AI That Takes Over Computers
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Jeff: Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here's Why
Instagram saves the best video quality for the most popular content
Video game preservationists have lost a legal fight to study games remotely
Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record
Alphabet posts big revenue and profit growth
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI
Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition
McDonald's Finds an Unlikely Savior to Finally Fix Its McFlurry Machines
RIP Foursquare
Craig gives CR $5 million for cybersecurity
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says a fork would be 'fantastic'
LeCun blasts Musk as the biggest threat to democracy today
Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally
Masnick on Elon Musk Events
TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
The Age of Cage
Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
McKinsey's 18 next big arenas of competition

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

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0:00.0	It's time for Twig this week and Google.
0:01.9	Jeff Jarvis is here.
0:03.8	Paris Martino is here.
0:05.8	And of course, we're going to kick things off with Google quarterly results.
0:09.4	They made a lot of money in the last three months.
0:12.7	Is that a surprise?
0:14.1	China's richest man, TikTok's founder.
0:17.5	And Elon builds a compound for his moms.
0:23.6	It's all coming up next on Twig. Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks
0:26.6	and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:28.6	Oh yeah.
0:29.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month
0:32.6	from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles,
0:35.6	including Romantasy,
0:38.7	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:42.8	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their flight.
0:46.8	Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible.
0:49.2	No way.
0:49.8	Download the Amazon Music app now to start listening.
0:52.7	Terms apply.
0:53.8	AI might be the most important innovation ever.
0:56.7	It's storming every industry with literally billions being invested.
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