The US insists on Chrome’s sale, although it will allow Google to continue investing in artificial intelligence

The United States Department of Justice has issued a new proposal for a reviewed sentence in which, in order to restore competition in the online search market, reiterates your intention that Google sells your Chrome web browser although it also points out that technological may continue to invest in artificial intelligence technology (AI).

Framed in the antimonopoly trial that the United States maintains against Google since September 2023, an American federal court ruled in August 2024 that the Alphabet group company Failure to comply with antitrust laws With your search engine, after verifying that controls approximately 90 percent of the market of Internet searches, paying millions of dollars to be the default search engine in web and mobile browsers.

As a consequence, the United States Department of Justice issued a proposal in November last year in which it formally raised the Google division to restore competition in the online search market.

Specifically, Google was requested to Get off the chrome web browserin addition to Impose some restrictions on Androidto stop favoring its own search engine on devices with this operating system. Likewise, it was also specified that, in the event that these impositions on Android were not effective, it could be demand directly the sale of the Google operating system.

For its part, Google spoke about it claiming that it is a proposal that would directly harm consumerssince “it would destroy a series of Google products, beyond the search, that people love and consider useful in their daily lives.”

Now, the United States Department of Justice has issued a second proposal for a reviewed sentence in which they have reaffirmed that Google must detach from chrome browser To “provide a new rival for an opportunity to operate a significant gateway to search the Internet, free from Google monopolistic control,” the Department of Justice has detailed in the proposal.

Likewise, the organism too continues to recommend the imposition of restrictions in relation to its Android operating system, as well as their possible sale in case they do not work. These restrictions refer to, for example, that Google pays other companies to use their search engine as a preferential service in their Android applications and devices.

However, the proposed proposal yes admits that Google continues to invest in the AI ​​marketas previously done with investments in technological ones such as Anthropic, in order to promote innovation and advances in this field.

As indicated by the Department of Justice in its proposal, the “mandatory divestment of Google’s investments in AI” is no longer required, however, the technological You must send “a previous notification” in order to carry out future investments in AI companies.

In response to all this, Google has stated that the new proposal of the Department of Justice “He continues to go far beyond the Court’s decision.” He also stressed that “would damage consumers, the national economy and security of the United States”, as indicated by Google spokesman Peter Schottenfels, in statements to The Washington Post.

Thus, technological has also presented its own proposal, in which, instead of including the sale of Chrome, suggests that the court impose restrictions on the types of agreement that can be made.

With all this, the judge American of the Columbia District Court, Amit Mehta, which was the one who ruled the illegal monopoly position of Google in August last year, will be the in charge of deciding on this new proposal of the Department of Justice to Google to end of April.