Episode Details

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Google's algorithm leak, OpenAI content deals, and more tech news from this week.

Further reading:

• Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
• Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
• An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them
• Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
• Unpacking Google's massive Search documentation leak
• How SEO moves forward with the Google Content Warehouse API leak
• Google responds to leak: Documentation lacks context
• Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
• Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search 
• Apple’s WWDC may include AI-generated emoji and an OpenAI partnership
• OpenAI CEO Cements Control as He Secures Apple Deal
• Custom GPTs open for free ChatGPT users
• OpenAI has a new safety team — it’s run by Sam Altman
• Why the OpenAI board fired Sam Altman 
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest
• New Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Galaxy Ring details have leaked, courtesy of the FCC
• The Fitbit Ace LTE is like a Nintendo smartwatch for kids 
• Discord’s turning the focus back to games with a new redesign
• The business behind Unnecessary Inventions’ millions of followers
• Welcome to Notepad, a newsletter on Microsoft’s era-defining bets by Tom Warren

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