This Week in Google 744: Giant Red Ties

• Federal government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act
• Google DeepMind researchers use AI tool to find 2mn new materials
• Some Pixel 8 Pro displays have bumps under the glass
• Reflecting on 18 years at Google
• Google's new geothermal energy project is up and running
• AWS Unveils Next Generation AWS-Designed Chips
• Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies
• Does Black Friday and Cyber Monday Matter?
• Adobe's $20 Billion Purchase of Figma Would Harm Innovation, U.K. Regulator Provisionally Finds
• Elon goes full Pizzagate. How does this end?
• A new low in manels
• Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
• OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern
• Hugging Face CEO on What Comes After Transformers
• Hinton vs LeCun vs Ng vs Tegmark vs O
• Anthony Levandowski Reboots Church of Artificial Intelligence
• Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral
• Google Slides getting built-in presentation recording tool
• Google Will Start Deleting Old Accounts This Week. Here's How to Save Your Google Account
• Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
• Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files

Picks of the week

• (Paris) The 2000 cinematic masterpiece Chicken Run
• (Paris) Pentiment
• (Jeff) Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
• (Jeff) After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine
• (Ant) City Nerd on YouTube
• (Jason) No Ads in Albania, Ethiopia and Myanmar

Hosts: Jason Howell, Jeff Jarvis, Paris Martineau, and Ant Pruitt

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