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Lawyers for the U.S. on Monday said that Google had created a monopoly with its services to place ads online, closing out an antitrust trial over the company’s dominance in advertising technology that could add to the Silicon Valley giant’s mounting woes. https://nyti.ms/493rv3T

Microsoft’s customers were unable to gain access to Outlook and Teams on Monday. It was due to a “recent change” to its software that had affected a number of its servers.

The Biden administration plans to reduce?Intel’s preliminary $8.5 billion federal CHIPS grant. The move follows the California-based company’s investment delays and?broader business struggles. The government’s decision to reduce the grant comes after Intel’s move to delay some of its planned investments in chip facilities in Ohio. The chip maker has been under pressure to reduce costs after posting its?biggest quarterly loss in the company’s 56-year history.

“Bluesky’s post-election growth spurt persuaded me to give it a second look. It’s much better now. And while I still don’t think Bluesky — or any social media app — will ever fully replace the old Twitter, I get what the excitement is about,” our tech columnist Kevin Roose writes.

Breaking News: Nvidia, which dominates the market for A.I. chips, reported that its profit doubled during the quarter ending in October.

Elon Musk asked X users to submit X-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other medical images to Grok, the platform’s A.I. chatbot, with the hope that if enough users feed the tool with their scans, it will eventually get good at interpreting them accurately. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4fWl5Wo

Walmart has told its workers that it plans to “win” the holiday season. Ahead of the peak shopping period, the nation’s largest retailer appears well positioned, citing “broad-based strength” across its product range.

Substack has tens of thousands of free and paid newsletters on various topics that are published each day, with politics as its most prized category. The platform is increasingly selling itself as an alternative to the decay of social media discourse.

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to protect Social Security, but many policies he proposed on the campaign trail would put the program's finances on even thinner ice. Experts answered our readers' biggest questions about what could happen next.

A New York Times reporter tested a handful of chatbots to see if they could help improve his dating life. The results were decidedly mixed.