💰🏛️ Google's $85B Bet, Trump's Tech Wishlist & AI Time Travel 🕰️⚡
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Today’s edition is absolutely electric! Google just shocked everyone by upping their infrastructure bet to a mind-blowing $85 billion (that's $10B more than planned!), Trump's rolling out an AI action plan that reads like Silicon Valley's dream policy memo, and Google DeepMind just created an AI archaeologist that's literally bringing ancient Roman inscriptions back to life 🏺✨. From massive data center investments to political power plays to historical discoveries, this is AI Buzz! at its finest!
Beyond the Server Room: How Google's $85 Billion AI Cloud Bet is Redrawing the Digital Map
Google just dropped the mother of all infrastructure bombshells — they're now planning to spend $85 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, a jaw-dropping $10 billion increase from their initial projections. This isn't just throwing money around; it's a response to explosive cloud demand with their revenue jumping 32% to $13.6 billion last quarter and a staggering $106 billion backlog of customers waiting for service. That's not a typo — they literally have over $100 billion worth of cloud customers in line! Google's finance chief called it "a tight supply environment," which might be the understatement of the year. About two-thirds of this massive investment is going to servers, with the rest dedicated to data centers and networking equipment. They're signaling that 2026 will see even MORE spending, making this the beginning of what could be the largest infrastructure buildout in tech history. The AI revolution is creating bottlenecks everywhere, and Google's betting that whoever builds the biggest, fastest infrastructure wins the entire cloud wars.
When Silicon Valley Meets Pennsylvania Avenue: Inside Trump's Bold AI Action Plan
Trump's new AI Action Plan reads like it was written during a Silicon Valley podcast binge — and that's because it basically was. Co-hosted by the All-In Podcast (where Trump's AI czar David Sacks is a regular), this policy blueprint is everything the tech industry wanted: faster AI exports, easier permits for energy-hungry data centers, and a war against "woke AI" following that infamous "Black George Washington" Google image disaster. The plan directly connects AI's massive electricity needs with Trump's fossil fuel agenda, despite UN warnings that a single AI data center uses as much power as 100,000 homes. While Biden tried restricting AI chip exports to over 100 countries to contain China, Trump's taking the opposite approach — Nvidia and AMD just got approval to sell advanced chips directly to China. The tech industry loves it, but 95 groups including unions and environmental organizations just signed a counter-resolution calling for a "People's AI Action Plan" instead. As one critic noted: "Every time we say, 'What about our jobs, our air, water, our children?' they're going to say, 'But what about China?'" It's Silicon Valley's wishlist with a White House stamp.
How Google DeepMind's Aeneas AI Brings Lost Ancient Inscriptions Back to Life
Google DeepMind just created something magical — an AI archaeologist named Aeneas that's literally bringing ancient Roman inscriptions back from the dead. Published in Nature today, this isn't your typical AI tool; it's the first model specifically designed to interpret, restore, and contextualize fragmentary ancient texts that have puzzled historians for centuries. Aeneas can search across thousands of Latin inscriptions to find parallels in wording, syntax, and standardized formulas, essentially solving historical puzzles with missing pieces. What makes it truly special is its multimodal capabilities — it handles both weathered text AND images from stone tablets, restoring gaps of unknown length that used to take scholars years to decipher. While initially trained for Latin, it's adaptable to other ancient languages and scripts, opening possibilities for papyri, coinage, and countless historical artifacts. The best part? Google DeepMind made it completely free at predictingthepast.com with open-source code and datasets, democratizing historical research for everyone. This isn't just about technology — it's about reconnecting us to our shared human story, one restored inscription at a time.