About 64 percent of those on the Internet use Chrome, according to online analytics firm Similarweb. 21% of users still use Apple’s Safari, the second-most popular browser. Mr. Turley was testifying at the Washington, DC trial, the latest in a slew of big tech cases brought by the DOJ on the power of big tech in social media, internet searching, and AI.
The court found Google to be a monopoly in online search last year, and in its ruling just last week, it said it had an illegal monopoly in online advertising technology.
Google said it plans to appeal both decisions.
The head of regulatory affairs, Lee-Anne Mulholland, wrote in a blog that the government’s proposals “would be a detriment to America’s consumers, economy and technological leadership,”
Google’s supremacy
The trial, now in its third week, focuses on proposals to reduce Google’s monopoly on internet search after the emergence of new generations of AI-based online tools, such as ChatGPT.
The latest generation of AI models improves results and reduces hallucination — one of the biggest hurdles developers have faced since chatbots took off last year — by using internet searches.
Mr. Turley chronicled OpenAIs offer to Google last year to take Google searches and bundle them into ChatGPT. But, he says their proposal was rejected.
Mr. Turley was separately quoted by Reuters as saying: ”We have no partnership with Google at this time.” OpenAI is partnered with Microsoft, which makes the Bing search engine and Edge browser. Meanwhile, on its end, Google has also been launching its generative AI tools, including its ChatGPT competitor Gemini.
It’s expected to last around three weeks and already tech giants like Meta, Amazon and Apple are watching closely, as all of them face their own monopoly suits from the DOJ. According to reports in recent days, OpenAI is now considering creating its own social network.
The project is “still in its early stages,” The Verge has reported, but the company and its chief Sam Altman have quietly begun testing a potential rival to X with select users.
Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were former business partners. Yet just a few years prior, they had a sizeable falling out over the future of OpenAI. X Embedded Its AI Tool Grok into Social Platform
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