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The U.S. Department of Justice is still call for Google to betray its web internet browser Chrome , according to a Fridaycourt filing .
The DOJ first project thatGoogle should deal Chromelast year , under then - President Joe Biden , and it seems to be sticking with that program under the second Trump administration . The department is , however , no longer calling for the company to strip all its investments in unreal intelligence , including the billion Google haspoured into Anthropic .
“ Google ’s illegal conduct has created an economic goliath , one that wreaks havoc over the mart to ensure that — no matter what occurs — Google always make headway , ” the DOJ tell in a filing signed by Omeed Assefi , its current dissemble lawyer full general for antitrust . ( Trump ’s nomineeto direct antimonopoly for the DOJ still awaits confirmation . )
For that rationality , the DOJ said it has n’t modify the “ core component ” of its initial proposal , including the divestment of Chrome and a inhibition on search - related payments to statistical distribution partners .
On AI , the DOJ said it ’s no longer call for “ the compulsory divestiture of Google ’s AI investments ” and will instead be satisfied with “ anterior notification for next investment . ” It also say that instead of giving Google the option to disinvest Android now , it will provide a future decision up to the courtroom , depend on whether the market becomes more competitive .
This proposal follow antimonopoly suits file by the DOJ and 38 state attorney general , leading Judge Amit P. Mehta torule that Google acted illegallyto maintain a monopoly in online search . Google has pronounce it will appeal Mehta ’s decision , but in the meanwhile offeredan alternative proposalthat it order would turn to his concern by put up mate with more tractableness .
A Google spokespersontold Reutersthat the DOJ ’s “ wholesale proposals continue to go miles beyond the Court ’s determination , and would harm America ’s consumers , saving and interior surety . ”
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Mehta is schedule to see contestation from both Google and the DOJ in April .
