For 20 years, Google Search has been unstoppable. Invincible. So totally dominant that would-be rivals typically couldn’t even get funding, as a result of traders didn’t see the purpose in making an attempt. However earlier this yr, a choose declared that Google’s energy, and the best way the corporate wields it, was an unlawful monopoly. And so now the US Division of Justice has to determine learn how to undo it.
We strive to determine whether or not any of those proposals are more likely to come to move — there’s nonetheless a lot of authorized course of left earlier than something right here is remaining — 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 would possibly take into consideration all this, and the way the case might change within the subsequent few months.
If you wish to know extra about all the things 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:
