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Felled by the Deregulatory Headwinds: DOJ’s Reversal on AI Divestiture in the Google Search Case
['Kate Brennan']
Tech Policy Press
Last week, the DOJ removed the AI divestiture remedy from its revised proposed final judgment and instead requested Google to notify the DOJ of any future investments in rival AI companies, a significantly weaker provision. While the DOJ’s remedy proposal remains quite strong overall, this revision suggests closer alignment with the Trump Administration’s expressly accelerationist and deregulatory approach to AI development: promising to fuel AI data centers by any means necessary, platforming a $500 billion investment into domestic AI infrastructure, and allowing the owner of a private AI company bulldoze the federal workforce with its shoddy predictive technology.