US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown
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AI is back up for debate.
Mehta asks: what kind of legal framework should he be using to think about generative AI product remedies? “GenAI products are not in the relevant market ... there is no evidence that generative AI products were harmed” by any of Google’s conduct in this case, Schmidtlein says — they didn’t even exist during the period covered in the original trial. “The notion that these AI rivals have been harmed at all is... whatever,” he says. But Google is willing to address the question about forward-looking impact by avoiding bundling or exclusive deals like the ones it used for search. “You can rest assured that at least in that sense it can be addressed.”
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