DOJ’s Proposed Google Breakup Could Disrupt Search Dominance and AI Growth

The U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed remedies to break up Google’s search dominance could weaken its main profit engine and stall its advances in artificial intelligence, even though a final outcome may be years away, analysts said.

The DOJ said on Tuesday it may ask a judge to force Google to divest parts of its business such as its Chrome browser and Android operating system, that the Alphabet-owned company (GOOGL.O) used to maintain an illegal monopoly in online search.

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