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Fans of Donald J. Trump spent millions for the opportunity to jump from ballrooms to rooftops for lavish events held across Washington this weekend.

An AI judge gets a tryout during the X Games this week in Aspen, Colorado. The experimental Google Cloud-based tech will judge snowboarding superpipe.

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If you need some, uh, different bad news to break up your already bad news day, here’s some: Google just donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund, per The Washington Post. (We can’t use Bing anymore either, because that’s an AI wasteland. Apparently there’s an alternative engine called Swisscows.com? That one sounds nice.)

Google became the most recent large tech business to attempt to win over the incoming administration when it donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fundraiser. TakeAway Points: Google gave $1 million to the inaugural fund of President-elect Donald Trump.

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