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U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade. The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice calls for sweeping punishments that would include a sale of Google's industry-leading Chrome web browser and impose restrictions to prevent Android from favoring its own search engine. Although regulators stopped short of demanding Google sell Android too, they asserted the judge should make it clear the company could still be required to divest its smartphone operating system if its oversight committee continues to see evidence of misconduct...

Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, U.S. prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday. Such changes would essentially result in Google being highly regulated for 10 years, subjecting it to oversight by the same Washington federal court that ruled the company maintained an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising...

(Reuters) -Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with rivals and take other measures - including possibly selling Android - to end its monopoly on online search, prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesday. The measures presented by the Department of Justice are part of a landmark case in Washington which has the potential to reshape how users find information. They would be in place for up to a decade, enforced via a court-appointed committee to remedy what the judge overseeing the case deemed an illegal monopoly in search and related advertising in the U.S., where Google processes 90% of searches...

(Bloomberg) -- The Justice Department and a group of states proposed a raft of changes to the business practices of Alphabet Inc.’s Google — including a forced sale of the company’s Chrome web browser — in the wake of a landmark ruling that the tech giant illegally monopolized online search.Most Read from BloombergParis to Replace Parking Spaces With TreesTrump Promises Could Have Seismic Impact on Washington EconomyTokyo’s Scorching Summers Focus Public Anger Against Tree CuttingNew York’s Tran...

US regulators want to force Google to sell its Chrome browser as part of the penalty for monopolizing search...

Feds ask judge to force Google to sell Chrome as part of monopoly punishment...

The buzz about artificial intelligence (AI) on Wall Street and Main Street continues to grow. The incredible rise of Nvidia, whose revenue has catapulted from $17 billion in 2021 to $96 billion over the past 12 months, helped push the major stock market indexes to record highs. Meanwhile, OpenAI's release of ChatGPT spurred a race by big tech companies to create increasingly sophisticated generative AI technology...

Update: DuckDuckGo Calls on European Commission to Probe Google's Digital Markets Act Compliance...

We recently published a list of 15 AI News Investors Are Paying Attention To. In this article, we are going to take a look at where Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) stands against other AI news investors are paying attention to. The United States and China are locked in a battle for AI supremacy and both countries […]...

DuckDuckGo Calls on European Commission to Probe Google's Digital Markets Act Compliance...