https://winbuzzer.com/2026/01/19/google-appeals-antitrust-monopoly-ruling-despite-receiving-favorable-remedies-xcxwbn/

Google has filed an appeal challenging the August 2024 federal ruling that found it maintained an illegal search monopoly, despite receiving lenient remedies.

#Google #Antitrust #BigTech #SearchEngines #DOJ #Regulation #TechLaw #Competition #Alphabet #GoogleChrome

🍏 Apple will use Google’s Gemini models and Cloud tech to power future AI features like Siri. 🤖

The non-exclusive, multi-year deal marks a shift for Apple, long known for in-house control, as it balances innovation with its on-device privacy stance. 🔐
Comes amid Google antitrust scrutiny. ⚖️

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/googles-gemini-to-power-apples-ai-features-like-siri/

#TechNews #AI #Privacy #Apple #Google #Siri #Cloud #Data #Antitrust #Policy #Innovation #AIethics #Regulation #BigTech #UserRights #Gemini #iOS #iPhone #Tech

#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

"The adtech problems drew a monopolization case, and Google lost that one too. And though the remedy is still to come, few think Google will be fundamentally restructured.

And that’s a tragedy, because the shift to AI is perhaps more significant than the shift to mobile. As with the early search market, there are several companies offering foundational AI services, like OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and so forth. The two key resources determining which model wins are, same as search before, data and distribution.

Google, as you’d expect, is repeating its search monopolization playbook with Gemini. It is self-preferencing Gemini across its lines of business, which is what it did with Android and search. It is cutting deals to insert Gemini into every major retail channel, which is analogous to its payments to phone makers to thwart rival search engines. Then there’s its deal with Apple, which is virtually identical to what Judge Mehta found to be the original Apple-Google arrangement enabling the illegal monopolization of the search market.

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 open web, and a dramatic narrowing of consumer choice."

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

#Google #AI #LLMs #AISearch #PriceFixing #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust

BBC: Google appeals landmark antitrust verdict over search monopoly. “In its announcement on Friday, Google said the ruling by Judge Amit Mehta didn’t account for the pace of innovation and intense competition the company faces. The company is requesting a pause on implementing a series of fixes – viewed by some observers as too lenient – aimed at limiting its monopoly power.”

#Google #law #legal #antitrust #DontBeEvil

'The company is requesting a pause on implementing a series of fixes - viewed by some observers as too lenient - aimed at limiting its monopoly power.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn0ek5rdpo

Engadget (@engadget)

Google이 검색 관련 반독점 판결에 대해 항소를 제기해 경쟁사와의 데이터 공유를 피하려 하고 있다는 내용입니다. 이번 항소는 검색 데이터 접근과 경쟁사 학습 데이터 확보 문제에 영향을 줄 수 있어 AI 개발·연구·경쟁 환경에 중요한 파급효과를 미칠 가능성이 있습니다.

https://x.com/engadget/status/2012282632957006059

#google #antitrust #search #datasharing #regulation