Alphabet has received a court ruling on several remedies as part of the longstanding antitrust case brought by the US Department of Justice.
The decision introduces modest pro-competition measures, like banning exclusivity deals (including for AI) and limited data sharing. But the proposed remedies avoid structural changes, allowing Alphabet to keep Chrome and continue paying to have Google as the default search engine on Apple devices.
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