TWiG 798: Great for Soup! - Veo, Willow, The Onion & Infowars
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 172 minutes
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Summary
Google introduces its new generative AI video model, Veo. TikTok is fighting back, seeking to pause the US ban pending a review from the Supreme Court. A judge is currently blocking the sale of Infowars to The Onion. And Leo and Jeff help Pars decide on the best gifts for a white elephant party.
- Google's new generative AI video model is now available.
- Google introduces A.I. agent that aces 15-day weather forecasts.
- Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip.
- Google is suing a federal regulator over supervision of its payment division.
- Hawk Tuah memecoin dumps 90% amid backlash over controversial launch.
- TikTok seeks to pause US ban pending Supreme Court review.
- Frank McCourt's Project Liberty advances bid for TikTok.
- The Supreme Court must intervene in the TikTok case.
- Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup.
- Are those drones over New Jersey? Sightings mount, and still no answers.
- Introducing Reddit answers.
- Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review.
- Instagram rolls out 'trial reels' that aren't shown to a creator's followers.
- Infowars sale to The Onion rejected by Federal bankruptcy judge.
- Debanking (and Debunking?)
- YouTube's new auto-dubbing feature is now available for knowledge-focused content.
- The AI We Deserve.
- New KOSA, same as old KOSA, but now with Elon's ignorant endorsement.
- 404 Media objects to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's subpoena to access our reporting.
- Casey Newton: The phony comforts of AI skepticism.
- WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules.
- Bluesky stats!
- Advertising is stupid. AI is stupid. The singularity is never.
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Twig this week at Google. |
| 0:02.0 | Paris Martino is here. |
| 0:03.0 | Jeff Jarvis is back. |
| 0:04.0 | Yay! |
| 0:05.0 | We're going to talk about AI today. |
| 0:06.0 | Lots of AI news, including the new Google Gemini Advanced. |
| 0:10.0 | Apple AI 18.2 comes out and Open AI continues. |
| 0:16.0 | It's 12 days of AI with more revelations. |
| 0:19.0 | We'll also get CloudFlare's 20 2024 year in review, and then we're all |
| 0:23.8 | going to help Paris pick a gift for her white elephant party. All of that coming up and a lot more. |
| 0:30.4 | Next on Twig. |
| 0:34.1 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 0:49.9 | This is Twit this is twig this week in google episode 798 recorded wednesday december 11th twenty 24. Great for soup. |
| 0:59.7 | It's time for Twig this week in Google, the show where we cover big tech. |
| 1:02.6 | Not just Google, but all the others as well. |
| 1:07.1 | Plus little journalism and some fun stuff thrown in with Paris Martineau from the information. |
| 1:08.3 | Hello, Paris. |
| 1:09.3 | Back home, I see. |
| 1:10.3 | Hello. |
| 1:14.3 | I am. I continue to be at my home where I live. |
| 1:21.3 | Yes, where you live in your home. The home where you live. I feel like... Not the other's home. |
| 1:27.4 | This is a code of some kind that I'm missing. It's good to see you. Someone's going to burst into my door and, you know, |
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