For 20 years, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So completely dominant that would-be opponents usually couldn’t even get funding, as a result of buyers didn’t see the purpose in attempting. But earlier this 12 months, a choose declared that Google’s energy, and the best way the corporate wields it, was an unlawful monopoly. And so now the US Department of Justice has to determine how you can undo it.
We strive to determine whether or not any of those proposals are prone to come to move — there’s nonetheless a lot of authorized course of left earlier than something right here is closing — and what it might imply for Google, and the web, in the event that they did. We additionally attempt to guess what the incoming Trump administration may take into consideration all this, and the way the case may change within the subsequent few months.
If you wish to know extra about every part we focus on on this episode, listed below are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Google and the DOJ:
And in AI and gadget information:
And within the lightning spherical:
