This Week in Google (Audio) Podcast
1) TWiG 609: Put Garlic On My Shopping List - Google and Apple earnings, Dogecoin, Basecamp drama, Google IO '21
Google Earnings Smash Sales Records as Digital Ad Market Booms Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google became big tech companies by acquiring hundreds of smaller companies Google Cloud brings in $4B in Q1...Show More
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Surprisingly well rounded discussion around the Basecamp drama
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) IM 859: What's Behind the Fox? - Tech's Gilded Age
What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanth...Show More
3) IM 857: Taskrabbit Arbitrage - Disposable Code and Automation
Leo Laporte and Paris Martineau go head-to-head over whether today's AI breakthroughs are truly unprecedented or history repeating itself. Hear what happens when the show's hosts use cutting-edge tool...Show More
4) IM 856: SecretlyBriti.sh - From Humans to Hive Minds
he podcast dives into the explosive advances in agentic AI, where developers and even Fortune 100 companies are racing to use powerful tools like Gastown, despite their unfinished and sometimes danger...Show More
5) IM 855: When You're Right, You're Right - Why Firefox Still Matters
Can AI stay open, ethical, and for the people? Mozilla's president joins the show to reveal their game plan—and $650 million war chest—for taking on Big Tech's monoculture with a "Rebel Alliance" appr...Show More
6) IM 853: All The Clocks Were Wrong - The Rise and Fall of Fact-Checking
Disinformation expert Craig Silverman joins the crew to break down why AI makes scams and fake news easier, faster, and nearly impossible to spot—while Big Tech quietly profits. If you think spotting ...Show More
7) IM 850: Bagel Rats - Open Source AI Rising
Forget the "AI is killing the planet" panic—this episode unpacks what's actually driving tech's power grab, the financial bubble no one wants to talk about, and why the big models are starting to look...Show More
8) IM 849: AI Cricket Sorting - Cracking Chatbots and AGI for All
What happens when every major AI model gets jailbroken within days? This week, the world's most prolific AI red teamer lifts the curtain on how and why "safe" AI might be an impossible promise. Pliny...Show More
9) IM 846: Chivelord - From Leather-Bound to Cloud Powered
What does it take to build tech the world actually trusts? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins the crew to dig into the real crisis behind AI, social networks, and the web: trust, and how to build it ...Show More
10) IM 835: Glitch Lord - Inside OpenAI's Secret Struggles and the 'Empire of AI' With Karen Hao
Go behind the curtain at OpenAI as bestselling author Karen Hao shares stories of infighting, ego, and shifting agendas. Find out why even OpenAI's security had her face on alert during her investigat...Show More