Daily Edition · Page 2

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

GENERAL

TLDR

US V. GOOGLE: WHAT EACH SIDE ARGUED FOR FIXING GOOGLE'S AD TECH MONOPOLY

The Justice Department and Google spent two weeks arguing over how to address Google's illegal monopoly in advertising software. The government argued that the only way to end Google's dominance in ad tech is to force a breakup and make Google sell the software that connects the buyers and sellers of ad space. Google says that the proposal was too complicated to pull off without harming publishers and instead proposed that the company make its systems work better with products produced by its competitors. The judge presiding over the case will reach a decision in the coming months.

ELON MUSK GAMBLES BILLIONS IN MEMPHIS TO CATCH UP ON AI

xAI is preparing to build a new plant in Memphis capable of generating over a gigawatt of electricity to power a million-square-foot data center that is also under development nearby. The Colossus data center houses over 200,000 Nvidia chips and powers the technology behind Grok, xAI's AI chatbot. xAI is close to finishing another bigger facility called Colossus 2. Colossus 2 will have a total of 550,000 chips and cost tens of billions of dollars.

TLDR IndexPage 2