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Title: DOJ Antitrust Case Aims To Undo Google-Anthropic Partnership

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/22/0351...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PYMNTS: The Justice Department's
proposal to resolve its antitrust case over online search against Google
reportedly would force the tech giant to unwind its partnership with
artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic. A recommendation in the
Justice Department's court filing Wednesday (Nov. 20) that Google be barred
from partnerships with companies that control where consumers search for
information, is intended to apply to the company's investment in Anthropic,
Bloomberg reported Thursday (Nov. 21). [...] It was reported in October 2023
that Google had invested $500 million in Anthropic and agreed to contribute
another $1.5 billion over time. During that same month, PYMNTS reported that
Anthropic's commitment to building and deploying what the company said are
generative AI capabilities with stronger built-in guardrails, differentiated
it from other foundational AI models on the market. On Tuesday (Nov. 19), the
U.K.'s competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA),
cleared Google's partnership with Anthropic, saying that it had determined
that the deal between the tech giant and the AI startup did not warrant
additional investigation. "The CMA does not believe that Google has acquired
material influence over Anthropic as a result of the partnership," the
regulator said in its assessment of the arrangement. U.S. regulators also
call for a sale of Google's Chrome browser and restrictions to prevent
Android from favoring its own search engine. "DOJ had a chance to propose
remedies related to the issue in this case: search distribution agreements
with Apple, Mozilla, smartphone OEMs and wireless carriers," Google said in a
Thursday blog post. "Instead, DOJ chose to push a radical interventionist
agenda that would harm Americans and America's global technology leadership."

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