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Bytes: Week in Review — Google on trial, underwater data centers and how AI spurred a celebrity endorsement

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for our weekly review of some of the big stories making headlines in tech. First: No, you’re not having déjà vu all over again. Google really is back in court this week for its second antitrust trial of the year. Plus, a startup in Silicon Valley wants to make AI data centers more sustainable by putting them underwater in the San Francisco Bay, but regulators have questions. And Taylor Swift announced she is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election. She took to Instagram on Tuesday night to publish her stance, citing artificial intelligence-enabled misinformation as a driving force. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, for his take on this week’s tech news.

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Look what AI made Taylor Swift do.

0:05.0

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

0:08.0

I'm Megan McCurdy Corino. It's Friday, time for our weekly review of some of the big stories making headlines in tech.

0:25.6

First, no, you're not having Deja vu all over again.

0:29.6

Google is back in court this week for its second antitrust trial of the year.

0:35.0

This one focused on the search giants ad technology.

0:38.0

Plus, a startup in Silicon Valley wants to make AI data centers more sustainable by putting them

0:44.4

underwater. The company plans to launch a capsule full of GPUs into the

0:49.6

San Francisco Bay, but regulators have some questions.

0:54.0

First though, pop icon Taylor Swift announced she is endorsing Vice President

1:00.8

Kamala Harris in this year's presidential election.

1:03.9

She took to Instagram Tuesday night to publish her official stance citing AI misinformation as a driving

1:10.6

force.

1:11.6

I asked Perez Dauvet, senior writer at Wired, to help me break down these

1:15.6

stories and I started by asking for his bite of the week, a number that gives us some insight

1:21.8

into our top story. a number of

1:27.0

of lights on Taylor Swift's post on Tuesday night within about 24 hours.

1:34.0

So that's more than the 6 million that she usually averages

1:37.4

and it's tracking to surpass her most popular post,

1:41.4

which was back in April

1:42.8

announcing her new album so oh my gosh it'll probably be a

1:46.8

Taylor Swift's most liked Instagram post ever.

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