The Google antitrust ruling gives its AI rivals one big reason to cheer

Many of Google’s AI rivals will have been disappointed to see the tech giant escape largely unscathed from its first major antitrust battle with the U.S. government. Despite concluding Google had operated an illegal monopoly, U.S. district judge Amit Mehta did not force the company to take remedies such as spinning off its Chrome browser or to stop paying hardware vendors for prime positioning on their platform. Nor did the judge say Google must give users explicit “choice screens” that could have encouraged them to make AI rivals like ChatGPT...