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    #420: The Snowball of Trust

    July 14th, 2023 · 80 minutes

    Andy’s joined by a special guest this week: Jason Howell, host of All About Android on the This Week In Tech network. We replay the last episode of the first season of “Frasier” before digging into a new rash of civil lawsuits that content creators have filed against Google and other makers of AI language models. And then we talk phones: the Fair, the Nothing, and reviving Andy’s Pixel 1 by installing one of the mobile OSes birthed by the Android Open Source Project.

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    Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train its AI tools | CNN Business
    The environmentally conscious Fairphone 4 is finally coming to the US - The Verge
    LineageOS – LineageOS Android Distribution