Judge Amit Mehta's ruling challenges Google's dominance and creates a rare opportunity to reshape core internet infrastructure. Chrome serves as the primary on-ramp for billions, determining search, commerce, communication, learning, advertising revenue, and flow of information. Chrome has high potential to become the leading platform for AI assistants and agentic browsing, which should ideally be open to all AI players, including smaller firms. The simplest remedy would be selling Chrome, but that risks transferring monopoly power to another deep-pocketed company and reinforcing surveillance-driven business models. An alternative is stewardship: governance prioritizing user and societal benefits, long-term stability, openness, and accountability over short-term returns.
Judge Amit Mehta's landmark ruling against Google is more than just another antitrust case. It is a once-in-a-generation moment to reshape the internet itself. For the first time, regulators are prying open the monopolies that have defined the digital age. What happens next will determine whether that effort produces lasting change - or simply recycles monopoly power from one tech giant to another. At the heart of the case is Chrome, the world's most popular browser.
For billions of people, it is the on-ramp to the internet: the tool that shapes how we search, shop, communicate, and learn. Whoever controls Chrome controls not only enormous advertising revenues, but also the flow of information across the web. There is a high probability that Chrome could become the leading platform for AI Assistants and agentic browsing. Ideally this would be open for all AI players - even smaller ones - and not controlled by Big Tech.
The simplest path forward for Google, if forced to by Judge Mehta's upcoming ruling, would be to sell Chrome to another deep-pocketed player. Names like OpenAI and rival Big Tech firms are already circling. But this would be a grave mistake. Transferring Chrome from one monopoly to the next would entrench the very dynamics the court has just sought to dismantle.
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