Week in Review: Google loses a major antitrust case

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of stuff for you this week: antitrust lawsuits against Google and Meta; Grok can now remember; Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow wants to make his mark; and much, much more. Have a great weekend! It’s over: Google violated antitrust laws in the ad tech market, a judge ruled, ending a two-year battle after eight states filed complaints against the Big Tech giant. Remedies could include forcing Google to break up its advertising business, like selling Google Ad Manager. “We won half of this case, and we will appeal the other half,” said Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs. Gone surfing: OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Windsurf, formerly Codeium, which makes a popular coding assistant. Before the news broke, OpenAI approached Anysphere, which makes Cursor, another coding assistant. These talks signal how important capturing a slice of the code-generation market has become for the ChatGPT maker. A tweet started it al ... Read full article.