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Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University

Google avoids being dismantled after US court battle – and it’s down to the rise of AI

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A year ago, Google faced the prospect of being dismantled. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and a new court judgment has helped it avoid this fate. Part of the reason is that AI poses a grave threat to Google’s advertising revenues.

“Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment,” according to the decision.

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