Google Can Keep Anthropic AI Investment Under Antitrust Plan
- Justice Department submitted final proposal to remedy monopoly
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google can keep its existing investments in artificial intelligence startups like Anthropic, but would be required to notify antitrust enforcers before investing in any more AI companies under a revised Justice Department proposal filed Friday in the agency’s landmark antitrust case over search.
In a court filing, antitrust enforcers said that barring Google from investments in AI could “cause unintended consequences in the evolving AI space.” The remainder of the Justice Department’s proposed remedy – including a forced sale of the Chrome web browser – is largely unchanged from November.