Without a Payment Ban, What Can We Expect from the US v. Google Data Sharing Remedies?

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Without a Payment Ban, What Can We Expect from the US v. Google Data Sharing Remedies?

On September 2, US District Court Judge Amit Mehta issued an opinion that many in the tech industry had been waiting on for more than 15 years: a ruling about how to rectify Google’s maintenance of its illegal monopoly in online search. The most consequential aspect of the opinion is that the remedies will not meaningfully address the conduct at the center of the case: Google paying distributors like Apple, Samsung, and Mozilla tens of billions of dollars per year to lock in Google Search as the default on nearly every mobile phone and across much of the desktop browser market.

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Google Wins, We Lose

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Google Wins, We Lose

What a great time to be Google. Not only is it facing only the meekest of punishments for abusing its monopoly of the search market, it is actually now positioned to further entrench its dominance of our information landscape. This is a perilous moment to be granting one company this much control over global access to knowledge.

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What does the Google antitrust ruling mean for the future of AI?

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What does the Google antitrust ruling mean for the future of AI?

When the government launched an antitrust lawsuit against Google five years ago, it was all about whether the tech giant had a monopoly on internet search. But by the time the judge ruled on punishments for the company this month, the future of artificial intelligence was front and center.

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Inside the battle for the future of the web

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Inside the battle for the future of the web

New web standards could limit AI’s access to websites in profound ways, and Big Tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are trying to halt or water down the effort.

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