Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)

Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills  —  Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google said on Friday it would invest $3 billion to set up a data center campus in Indiana and expand sites in Virginia.

A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers  —  New York obtains significant win for states’ ability to regulate broadband.  —  A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling …

Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time; the stock rose 10%, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015, resulting in a valuation of $2.15T  —  – Report reassures investors about its prospects with AI  — Google parent already twice breached level on intraday basis

Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal’s disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC’s antitrust case against Amazon (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal’s disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC’s antitrust case against Amazon  —  – Agency accuses retail giant of failing to preserve documents  — Top executives communicated via Signal disappearing chats

Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing  —  – The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google  — Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update

Google is testing “Speaking practice” in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google is testing “Speaking practice” in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills  —  Google is testing a new “Speaking practice” feature in Search that helps users improve their conversational English skills.

Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments (The Baltimore Banner)

The Baltimore Banner:
Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments  —  Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with crimes related …

As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P 500’s worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company’s missteps (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P 500’s worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company’s missteps  —  Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks while showing silicon wafers during an event called AI Everywhere in New York, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.