Waffle Party - Robotaxi victory in California, broadcast TV in trouble, Chrome Topics, Google Hotel

• Google's updates to NFL Sunday Ticket, including flexible billing, student plans, live chat, polls, and more
• Linear TV viewing falling below 50% for the first time
• Streaming gaining more market share, but subscription costs rising
• Congressional inquiry into harmful data broker practices
• Google using AI to generate key points in web pages
• Google considering allowing AI summaries directly in search results
• YouTube cracking down on videos promoting ineffective cancer cures
• Google Photos getting AI-powered auto-generated titles and organization
• Google Slides enabling presenters to draw and annotate while presenting
• Changes coming to YouTube Shorts, including blocking links to combat spam
• Google's hotel for employees during COVID now offering discounted rates as they push back towards in-office work
• California allowing self-driving cars to operate in San Francisco 24/7, leading to traffic jams
• Google eliminating many of its private label consumer product brands due to poor sales and distrust
• Internet Archive being sued by record labels for digitizing and hosting out of print 78rpm records
• Update on researcher Joan Donovan's firing from Harvard and new role at Boston University
• Proposal for new rules regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
• Analysis of surveillance capitalism and its effects on society
• Discussion on public distrust of medical institutions and ""elite"" doctors
• Speculation on Elon Musk's erratic behavior on Twitter including visiting Mark Zuckerberg's house
• Review of the movie Oppenheimer and how its portrayal connects to the ethical dilemmas of technology
• Several lighter topics including bollards on Twitter, introducing grandparents to TikTok, and AI-generated poetry

Picks:
• Stacey - Homey Pro
• Jeff - She introduced Grandpa to TikTok
• Ant - Better Smartphone Photography with Lisa Carney at Donner Lake
• Ant - In-Person or Online: How You Can Support Maui Wildfire Relief

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt
This Week in Google episode 729
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