The United States Department of Justice is still asking Google to sell its Chrome web browser, according to a Friday Judicial presentation.
The Department of Justice proposed for the first time that Google should sell to Chrome last year, under then President Joe Biden, but seems to be with that plan under the second Trump administration. However, the department is no longer asking that the company disintegrates all its investments in artificial intelligence, including billions of Google that has become anthropic.
“Google’s illegal behavior has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc on the
Market to ensure that, regardless of what happens, Google always wins, ”said the Department of Justice in a presentation signed by Omeed Assefi, its current interim attorney general for antiponopoly. (Trump nominated To lead antitrust for the Department of Justice, confirmation still awaits).
For that reason, the Department of Justice said that the “central components” of its initial proposal have not changed, including Chrome’s disinvestment and a prohibition of payments related to the search to distribution partners.
In AI, the Department of Justice said that it no longer requests “the mandatory divestment of Google’s investments” and, on the other hand, will be satisfied with “prior notification for future investments.” He also said that instead of giving Google the option to disin Android now, he will leave a future decision in the court, depending on whether the market becomes more competitive.
This proposal follows the antitrust demands filed by the Department of Justice and 38 General State Prosecutors, Judge Amit P. Mehta to govern that Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in the online search. Google has said that it will appeal Mehta’s decision, but in the meantime he offered an alternative proposal that said he would address his concerns by providing the most flexibility partners.
A Google spokesman He told Reuters That the “radical proposals of the Department of Justice continue to see miles beyond the decision of the Court, and would harm consumers, the national economy and security of the United States.”
Mehta is scheduled to listen to Google arguments and the Department of Justice in April.