Feds release the offer to make Google sell it investments – but still request chrome sales

The Justice Department on Friday issued a proposal to force the Alphabet Google to sell its investments in artificial intelligence companies, including the Openai Anthropic competition, to increase competition in internet search.

Doj and a coalition of 38 state prosecutors still demand a court order requesting Google to sell his browser Chrome and take other measures aimed at addressing what a judge said was the monopoly of illegal Google search, according to court documents submitted to Washington.

Google and Anthropic spokesmen did not respond immediately to comment requests.

Google holds a minority of stock worth billions of dollars in anthropic. Loss of investment would give Openai and her partner Microsoft a competitive advantage, anthropic the court wrote in February.

Doj first made a project recommendation in November. Prosecutors then continued to seek evidence from Google competitors and his companies. The evidence showed a risk that Google’s prohibition from investment “can” cause unintentional consequences in the developing space of it, “prosecutors said on the final proposal on Friday.

They demanded that Google be required to notify the government in advance of future investments in the generating.

Google, who has said he would appeal, has made his proposal that he will release deals with Apple and others to place Google as the predetermined search engine on new devices. US District Judge Ait Mehta has planned a trial for proposals for April.

Blockbuster raised during President Trump’s first term began a blow against large technology companies that extended to the administration of former President Joe Biden. Apple, Meta platforms and Amazon also face charges of maintaining illegal monopolies in their respective markets.

Since Trump’s re -election, Google has sought to make the opportunity that access to this case will hobe the company’s ability to compete in him and “risk America’s global economic and technological leadership”.

Many of the measures that prosecutors proposed in November remain intact with some changes.

A request that Google Share’s searching data with competitors now says Google can charge for access cost and that competitors should not pose a national security risk.