The Morning After: The Justice Department wants Google to sell off Chrome

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The Justice Division stated in a submitting that Google should break up its network of myriad, overlapping companies and providers, upholding the earlier administration’s proposal.

The DOJ reiterated Google should promote the Chrome browser — saying, final yr, that promoting off Chrome “will completely cease Google’s management of this essential search entry level and permit rival search engines like google the power to entry the browser that for a lot of customers is a gateway to the web.”

Google is prone to file its personal alternate treatments, after all. In a December submitting, the corporate stated the Justice Division’s unique treatments went “overboard” and mirrored an “interventionist agenda.”

However Google is large, and the DOJ is attempting to understand how its elements intermingle and make it much less monopolistic. It dropped a Biden-era proposal requiring Google to promote AI startup stakes. As an alternative, Google should now notify officers earlier than making AI investments. Early 2025 studies say Google has thrown one other billion {dollars} at Anthropic.

The corporate gave funds to both Trump’s presidential marketing campaign and his inauguration — so it is likely to be pissed off its donations aren’t working.

— Mat Smith

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