Google’s Monopoly Delayed Innovations Like ChatGPT, DOJ Says
- Justice Department, states sued tech giant for monopolization
- Google wants to narrow antitrust suit ahead of September trial
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ChatGPT and other technology innovations may have been released years ago if Google hadn’t monopolized the search market, the Justice Department told a federal court Thursday.
Days after Microsoft Corp. announced that it would incorporate OpenAI’s AI-powered chat technology into its Bing search engine, Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it would release its own conversational AI product, said Kenneth Dintzer, the Justice Department’s lead lawyer in its antitrust case against the search giant.