This week Romain Dillet is here to tell us all about Google’s Live from Paris event and then we dig more into how exactly Google is trying to join the conversational AI game with Devin Coldewey. But first, Darrell goes over some of the top news from the week. 

Articles from the episode:

• Google intros new features for EVs with Maps built in
• Google Maps launches Immersive View in five cities, will roll out ‘glanceable directions’ soon
• Google announces improved contextual translation features
• Google’s AI-powered ‘multisearch,’ which combines text and images in a single query, goes global
• Google takes on ChatGPT with Bard and shows off AI in search

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• Quora opens its new AI chatbot app Poe to the general public
• Microsoft launches the new Bing, with ChatGPT built in
• Bing’s app saw a 10x jump in downloads after the AI 
• Twitter is telling users that they’re over the daily tweet limit
• Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell.