Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, is set to speak in Washington on Wednesday during a big trial. The U.S. government wants to make Google sell its Chrome browser and change how it operates so that other search engines have a fair chance. This trial could change the internet and how people find information online.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and a group of state attorneys are worried that Google might use its power in search to control artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. A judge previously said that Google has no real competition because it pays companies like Apple, Samsung, AT&T, and Verizon billions of dollars to be their default search engine.
The DOJ is pushing for Google to stop these payments and share its search data with other companies. Google argues that this would hurt its business, put users’ privacy at risk, and negatively impact smaller companies, like Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser. Recently, Google has allowed some device makers and carriers to add other search and AI apps, which was shown in the trial. The company plans to appeal if the judge makes a decision against it.
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