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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery

How Google dodged a major breakup – and why OpenAI is to thank for it

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The reason for the relative tameness of the penalty is the emergence of real competition to Google – what the case concerned in the first place. Photograph: Thomas Trutschel/Photothek/Getty Images

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I finish the audiobook version of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, which I can’t say I found compelling.

In tech – artificial intelligence is having its day in court with an 11th-hour appearance in Google’s landmark antitrust trial and Anthropic’s major settlement with book authors.

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