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 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) IM 834: Gewgaw - Google's 'Nano Banana' Model
Google improves Gemini AI image editing with 'Nano Banana' model. THIS is why large language models can understand the world. Building a16z's personal AI workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Bl...Show More
7) IM 833: The Most Popluar S3 Bucket Ever - AI Slop, Clankers, and Shrimp
AI data wars push Reddit to block the Wayback Machine China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis US government agency drops Grok after MechaHitler backlash, report s...Show More
8) IM 832: Surrounded by Zuck - Inside Google Gemini
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it. Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons David Sacks on X: "A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives...Show More
9) IM 830: I Pay A Gentleman on Etsy - Personal Superintelligence?
Interview with Ian Krietzberg Leo's shows off his new AI toys Paris unveils her new desk setup Personal Superintelligence You might want to delve into this paper. I want to underscore, that's a jo...Show More
10) IM 829: The Yonkers Questions - What's New With NotebookLM
Interview with Steven Johnson Amazon buys Bee AI wearable that listens to everything you say Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch | TechCrunch (21) Jeff Wang on ...Show More