New DOJ proposal still calls for Google to divest Chrome, but allows for AI investments

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The US Division of Justice remains to be calling for Google to promote its net browser Chrome, based on a Friday courtroom submitting. 

The DOJ first proposed that Google ought to promote Chrome final 12 months, beneath then-President Joe Biden, but it surely appears to be sticking with that plan beneath the second Trump administration. The division is, nevertheless, now not calling for the corporate to divest all its investments in synthetic intelligence, together with the billions Google has poured into Anthropic.

“Google’s unlawful conduct has created an financial goliath, one which wreaks havoc over the

market to make sure that — it doesn’t matter what happens — Google all the time wins,” the DOJ stated in a submitting signed by Omeed Assefi, its present performing lawyer basic for antitrust. (Trump’s nominee to steer antitrust for the DOJ nonetheless awaits affirmation.)

For that cause, the DOJ stated it hasn’t modified the “core elements” of its preliminary proposal, together with the divestment of Chrome and a prohibition on search-related funds to distribution companions.

On AI, the DOJ stated it’s now not calling for “the necessary divestiture of Google’s AI investments” and can as an alternative be glad with “prior notification for future investments.” It additionally stated that as an alternative of giving Google the choice to divest Android now, it’s going to go away a future choice as much as the courtroom, relying on whether or not the market turns into extra aggressive.

This proposal follows antitrust fits filed by the DOJ and 38 state attorneys basic, main Decide Amit P. Mehta to rule that Google acted illegally to take care of a monopoly in on-line search. Google has stated it’s going to attraction Mehta’s choice, however within the meantime provided another proposal that it stated would handle his issues by offering companions with extra flexibility.

A Google spokesperson advised Reuters that the DOJ’s “”sweeping proposals proceed to go miles past the Courtroom’s choice, and would hurt America’s shoppers, financial system and nationwide safety.”

Mehta is scheduled to listen to arguments from each Google and the DOJ in April.

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