Federal judge won’t force Google to sell Chrome, betting artificial intelligence will organically disrupt the company’s search monopoly.

But critics argue AI companies aren’t truly independent: Microsoft backs OpenAI, while Amazon and Google fund Anthropic.

Google maintains vast advantages—user data, YouTube and computing power—that could entrench its dominance in artificial intelligence.

In a recent episode of the podcast Acquired, venture capitalists and hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal argued that the horrible roll-out of Google’s Bard AI chatbot in February 2023 — which led the company’s stock to drop 8% in a day — was a blessing in disguise. That’s because two years later, after a US federal judge ruled that Google had illegally monopolized online search, he also concluded tha

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