This Week in Google (Audio)

• Requiem for Raghavan
• Electric Motors Are About to Get a Major Upgrade Thanks to Benjamin Franklin
• Epic judge lets Google keep its Android app store closed to competitors — for now
• Google will block election ads after polls close
• LinkedIn is News Publishers' New Best Friend
• People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes
• Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
• Musk's X seeks to steer lawsuits to conservative court in Texas
• Sam Altman's identity and cryptocurrency venture Worldcoin has a rebrand
• Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen's Suicide
• On-device AI could make apps obsolete
• Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
• Controversy after Polish radio station replaces human presenters with AI
• Sotheby's to auction its first artwork made by a humanoid robot
• Elvis Found Alive
• Thank you, Steve Ballmer, for a concert app that made me want to scream

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Guest: Nathan Freitas

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