#GoogleDominance: "Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what #JudgeMehta found to be the original #Apple-#Google arrangement enabling the illegal #monopolization of the #searchmarket.

Mehta’s failure to impose a remedy was permission for Google to repeat this scheme with generative AI. And now it has. This deal will ensure that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot product will become dominant in the most important mobile ecosystem in the world. And its experience structuring #adtech markets suggest that if it mediates the entire economy, many tradition businesses will wind up like newspapers, eliminated as Google appropriates profit margins for itself and destroys the ability of consumers to differentiate products based on quality, #innovation or other values. It could be an extinction level event for many commercial areas, like the death of the #openweb, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."

#AISearch #PriceFixing #Antitrust

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/will-google-organize-the-worlds-prices

A DC JUDGE had DENIED Trump’s latest attempt to stay the civil rights case against him and the Proud Boys for causing the injury and death of police on Jan6. Michael Popok reports on Judge Mehta’s decision to deny Trump and what it means for next week’s Supreme Court oral argument on whether Trump has immunity for “official acts” while in office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmOJ1Kyq6o #Trump #JudgeMehta #immunity #jan6

👨🏻‍⚖️ 🤜🏻 💥 U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump’s effort to pause the lawsuits until the criminal charges over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election — brought by special counsel Jack Smith — are resolved.

Instead, Mehta ordered Trump to begin describing the basis for his claim that he is immune from the lawsuits because his actions on Jan. 6 were part of his official duties as president.

#Trump #JudgeMehta #jan6 #CriminalCase

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/18/jan-6-lawsuits-trump-00153133