{"id":20031,"date":"2025-09-09T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/how-google-dodged-a-major-breakup-and-why-openai-is-to-thank-for-it\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:37:39","slug":"how-google-dodged-a-major-breakup-and-why-openai-is-to-thank-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/how-google-dodged-a-major-breakup-and-why-openai-is-to-thank-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google dodged a major breakup \u2013 and why OpenAI is to thank for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An antitrust apocalypse has been averted, and it\u2019s all down to its biggest competitor, according to the judge who could\u2019ve forced Google to sell Chrome<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I finish the audiobook version of Don DeLillo\u2019s White Noise, which I can\u2019t say I found compelling.<\/p>\n<p>In tech \u2013 artificial intelligence is having its day in court with an 11th-hour appearance in Google\u2019s landmark antitrust trial and Anthropic\u2019s major settlement with book authors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/sep\/06\/existential-crisis-google-use-ai-search-upended-web-publishers-models\">\u2018Existential crisis\u2019: how Google\u2019s shift to AI has upended the online news model<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/03\/google-monopoly-case-ruling\">\u2018Slap on the wrist\u2019: critics decry weak penalties on Google after landmark monopoly trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/07\/millions-of-uk-mobiles-activated-as-government-tests-national-alert-system\">Millions of UK mobiles activated as government tests national alert system<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/sep\/07\/disruption-to-jaguar-land-rover-after-cyber-attack-may-last-until-october\">Disruption to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack may last until October<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/04\/head-of-alan-turing-institute-jean-innes-resigns\">Head of UK\u2019s beleaguered Alan Turing Institute resigns | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/02\/trump-world-liberty-financial-cryptocurrency\">Trump fortune balloons by billions after family firm\u2019s crypto token starts trading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/02\/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware\">Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/04\/trump-rose-garden-tech-dinner-elon-musk\">Trump hosts US tech leaders at White House dinner \u2013 minus Elon Musk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/04\/melania-trump-artificial-intelligence-schools\">Be Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/03\/trump-memes-immigration-deportation\">From Uncle Sam to social media memes: inside homeland security\u2019s push to swell Ice ranks | Trump administration | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/06\/drones-evolving-technology-at-ukraine-conflict-heart\">\u2018It is a war of drones now\u2019: the ever-evolving tech dominating the frontline in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/08\/google-antitrust-apocalypse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3446d3f44ca6b3c54a91e3e303c139e3f37715a8\/294_0_2941_2353\/master\/2941.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4d05025d95f8d2e91dc64f0ecb9475db\" title=\"How Google dodged a major breakup \u2013 and why OpenAI is to thank for it\" \/>An antitrust apocalypse has been averted, and it\u2019s all down to its biggest competitor, according to the judge who could\u2019ve forced Google to sell Chrome<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I finish the audiobook version of Don DeLillo\u2019s White Noise, which I can\u2019t say I found compelling.<br \/>\nIn tech \u2013 artificial intelligence is having its day in court with an 11th-hour appearance in Google\u2019s landmark antitrust trial and Anthropic\u2019s major settlement with book authors.<br \/>\n\u2018Existential crisis\u2019: how Google\u2019s shift to AI has upended the online news model<br \/>\n\u2018Slap on the wrist\u2019: critics decry weak penalties on Google after landmark monopoly trial<br \/>\nMillions of UK mobiles activated as government tests national alert system<br \/>\nDisruption to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack may last until October<br \/>\nHead of UK\u2019s beleaguered Alan Turing Institute resigns | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian<br \/>\nTrump fortune balloons by billions after family firm\u2019s crypto token starts trading<br \/>\nIce obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps<br \/>\nTrump hosts US tech leaders at White House dinner \u2013 minus Elon Musk<br \/>\nBe Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI<br \/>\nFrom Uncle Sam to social media memes: inside homeland security\u2019s push to swell Ice ranks | Trump administration | The Guardian<br \/>\n\u2018It is a war of drones now\u2019: the ever-evolving tech dominating the frontline in Ukraine Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An antitrust apocalypse has been averted, and it\u2019s all down to its biggest competitor, according to the judge who could\u2019ve forced Google to sell Chrome Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I finish the audiobook version of Don DeLillo\u2019s White Noise, which I can\u2019t say I found &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/how-google-dodged-a-major-breakup-and-why-openai-is-to-thank-for-it\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Google dodged a major breakup \u2013 and why OpenAI is to thank for it<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}