DOJ Appeals Google Search Monopoly Ruling
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a cross-appeal Tuesday in the antitrust case against Google, challenging the remedies decisions in the case, according to a post on X by the DOJ Antitrust Division. This action follows Google's own appeal filed last month, according to The Verge.
The DOJ's initial antitrust case against Google alleged that the tech giant maintained an illegal monopoly over the search market. The outcome of the case and subsequent appeals could have significant implications for competition and innovation in the tech industry.
In other tech news, concerns arose regarding Netflix's potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) streaming and movie studios. During a Senate hearing, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos addressed the Senate Judiciary Committees Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, according to Ars Technica. The hearing, titled "Examining the Competitive Impact of the Proposed Netflix-Warner Brothers Transaction," aimed to assess the potential effects of the merger. Sarandos suggested that the merger would not lead to higher prices, countering fears that reduced competition would negatively affect subscribers. He aimed to convince the subcommittee that the merger would have an opposite effect.
Meanwhile, a potential $100 billion deal between Nvidia and OpenAI appears to have stalled. In September 2025, the companies announced a letter of intent for Nvidia to invest in OpenAI's AI infrastructure, according to Ars Technica. However, five months later, the deal has not closed. Nvidia's CEO now states that the $100 billion figure was never a commitment. Reuters reported that OpenAI has been quietly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips since last year, citing dissatisfaction with the speed of some Nvidia chips for inference tasks, according to eight sources familiar with the matter. Inference is the process by which a trained AI model generates responses to user prompts.
In France, law enforcement authorities raided X's Paris office and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of an investigation into illegal content, according to Ars Technica. The Paris public prosecutors office stated that the yearlong probe was recently expanded because the Grok chatbot was disseminating Holocaust-denial claims and sexually explicit deepfakes. Europol is assisting French authorities in the investigation, which concerns a range of suspected criminal offenses linked to the functioning and use of the platform, including the dissemination of illegal content and other forms of online criminal activity. Europol's cybercrime center provided an analyst on the ground.
Finally, Moltbook, an experimental social network designed for AI agents, gained attention after a Wired reporter infiltrated the platform. Matt Schlicht, who runs the ecommerce assistant Octane AI, created Moltbook, which launched last week. The platform mirrors the user interface of a stripped-down Reddit. The reporter found it easy to pose as an AI agent and role-play as a bot on the platform.
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