A federal judge ruling in the Google antitrust trial is more damning than you'd think. Yes, Google won't have to divest Chrome or Android, but the ruling is basically a bet that generative AI is going to erode the company's search dominance.
However, I can't ignore the generative AI comments in the ruling.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote:
In the long run, sharing search and user interaction data may hamper Google and give genAI rivals a fast-forward button to compete.