Sundar Pichai said it to Donald Trump’s face: the win in Google’s antitrust case had a lot to do with the president’s time in 0 a Thursday dinner hosted at the White House with other tech executives, Trump looked straight at the Google CEO and said, “Well you had a very good day yesterday … Do you want to talk about that big day you had yesterday?” That “big day” was the moment Alphabet, Google’s parent company, added $230 billion to its market cap after dodging a forced breakup in a federal court ruling, as was reported by 1 antitrust case, first launched by the Department of Justice in 2020, accused Google of running an illegal monopoly in the search 2 Amit Mehta ruled this week that while Google did break the law, the DOJ’s most extreme demands weren’t 3 ruling triggered a surge in Google’s stock 4 didn’t argue.
“I’m glad it’s over,” he told Trump at the table, getting laughs from the other guests. “It’s a long process … Appreciate that your administration had a constructive dialogue, and we were able to get it to some resolution.” Trump simply replied, “Right.” Google walks away with billions and no major restrictions The ruling wasn’t a light 5 acknowledged 6 it also shut down the DOJ’s harsher ideas, like forcing Google to break up or stop paying Apple billions per year to stay the default search engine on 7 deal alone is worth billions, helping Apple and keeping Google at the top of the food 8 Tuesday, Apple’s stock jumped 4% after hours, clearly pleased with the court’s decision.
Mehta’s decision was a dunk. “Google will not be barred from making payments or offering other consideration to distribution partners for preloading or placement of Google Search, Chrome, or its GenAI products,” the judge 9 added that cutting off those payments would likely hurt other companies and even 10 short, the court wasn’t willing to break what’s already profitable for multiple 11 it wasn’t a total 12 was told to open up some of its 13 the May remedies trial, the DOJ asked the court to make Google share the data it uses to generate search results, especially data based on what users 14 judge agreed 15 now has to share some search index data and user interaction data, but not ads 16 won’t be getting access to the deep, granular datasets they hoped for.
Still, Google won’t have to give that data away for 17 said any sharing has to happen on “ordinary commercial terms,” meaning Google can still charge or control how it’s done, as long as it’s in line with their usual syndication 18 links win to AI agenda and past DOJ decisions The Thursday night dinner wasn’t just about search 19 pivoted the conversation to artificial intelligence. “The AI moment is one of the most transformative moments any of us have ever seen or will see in our lifetimes,” he told Trump. “Already the AI action plan under your leadership I think is a great start, and we look forward to working 20 thanks for your leadership.” He was talking about the “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan,” which was launched in July.
It’s a 90-policy plan across three areas: speeding up innovation, building AI infrastructure, and pushing American AI dominance on the global 21 part of that plan is it bans AI tools that use “Woke AI” or “ideological dogmas such as DEI,” which refers to diversity, equity, and 22 also made it 23 cut in while Sundar was speaking and said, “Biden was the one who prosecuted that lawsuit, you know that right?” But the facts show otherwise, the DOJ filed the case while Trump was still in office during his first 24 didn’t 25 that same day, Sundar showed up at another White House event, the AI Education Taskforce, hosted by First Lady Melania 26 goal?
More government presence in AI 27 apparently, Google wants to stay in that loop. There’s more on the legal side 28 is still dealing with a separate lawsuit from 29 one was filed more than four years ago and is still 30 focuses on YouTube, which is owned by Google, and accuses the platform of unlawful censorship after Trump’s accounts were suspended post-January 6 Capitol 31 legal teams are now in 32 crypto news deserves attention - KEY Difference Wire puts you on 250+ top sites
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