CanCon Podcast Ep. 68: Is Google's new AI chip a game changer?

Recently, ransomware known as WannaCry, attacked (at last count) over 200,000 systems in 150 countries. The hack made use of a leaked, NSA-developed software and was able to infect both personal and government level computers. This attack, although poorly executed, had such a large impact that it has the CanCon team wondering how the tech community can keep the “bad guys” from winning.

Google made some major tech announcements at their developer conference this week. Google I/O covered many bases, but the most noteworthy developments included a new evolutionary (revolutionary?) AI chip, augmentations to Assistant with Google Lens, standalone VR headsets and a beefed-up Google Home. Are these the developments that will surround Apple with a moat of innovation?

Tune in as CanCon’s podcast crew – Erin Bury, Managing Director of Eighty-Eight, Patrick O’Rourke, MobileSyrup Senior Editor, and Douglas Soltys, BetaKit Editor in Chief – contemplate democratized malware and try to predict the Apple response to Google I/O.

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