Google CEO Sundar Pichai Thanks Trump Administration for 'Constructive Dialogue' After Antitrust Ruling

Google avoids court-ordered breakup as AI revitalizes competition

One year after ruling that Google illegally maintained a monopoly in online search, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected a Department of Justice proposal that would have forced Google to sell its Chrome web browser and Android mobile operating system. Mehta also rejected a proposed outright ban on the multibillion-dollar revenue-sharing payments Google makes to firms like Apple for status as the default general search engine (“GSE”) in browse…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanks Trump administration for 'constructive dialogue' after antitrust ruling

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked President Donald Trump Thursday for the administration’s "constructive dialogue" related to its antitrust case that was resolved this week, according to several reports. "You had a very good day yesterday," Trump told Pichai at a White House meeting that included other tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook, according to The Wall Street Journal. "Do you want to talk about that big day you had yesterday?"T…

Judge Mehta’s Google Antitrust Remedies: Threading The Needle Between Overkill And Underkill - Above the Law

Last summer, when Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had violated antitrust laws through its search distribution agreements, I was left wondering what the hell any reasonable remedy would look like. The case always struck me as weird—Google was paying billions to Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine because users actually wanted Google as the default. Any remedy seemed likely to either do nothing useful or actively harm the very com…

Google Antitrust Ruling: Data Sharing Ordered, No Breakup Amid AI Rise

In a landmark decision that underscores the evolving dynamics of antitrust enforcement, a federal judge has ruled that Alphabet Inc.’s Google must share some of its search data with rivals but stopped short of mandating a breakup of the tech giant. This outcome, detailed in a ruling by U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta, highlights how artificial intelligence is reshaping traditional notions of market dominance. Google, which has long controlled …

Trump commends Google’s “very good day” following remedies decision

President Donald Trump has distanced his administration from the Google Search case while framing Judge Amit Mehta’s remedies ruling as a favourable outcome for Google.

Google Search Remedies: A Missed Opportunity for Tech Accountability

This week, Judge Amit Mehta issued his long-awaited remedies decision in U.S. v. Google (filed back in 2020), the landmark case where the Department of Justice and a bipartisan coalition of states successfully proved that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by using billions in exclusionary contracts to freeze out rivals. The remedies to this case were supposed to be the salve for Google’s market harms, designed to restore competition, …