A US federal court dismissed two publisher antitrust lawsuits against Google over its AI Overviews feature. The rulings, handed down on Thursday, are the latest in a string of decisions that leave the company's core advertising business intact.
On 29 September, President Trump said he and tech leaders signed a "morally binding" AI agreement at the White House, while OpenAI confirmed it had scrapped its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns the day before. The twin developments land as Google's ad-tech antitrust case continues to reverberate without a forced breakup.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he and tech leaders signed a 'morally binding' artificial intelligence document at the White House, while regulators, courts and state officials keep pressing the industry on competition and safety.
President Donald Trump said on 29 September that he signed a "morally binding" artificial intelligence agreement with technology executives at a White House luncheon. The voluntary framework leaves the antitrust questions raised by the sector's market power unanswered.
Sweden's Patent and Market Court has ordered Google to pay roughly $1.5 billion in damages to the price comparison site PriceRunner, the country's largest competition damages award, according to the Conservative Research Group. The ruling, issued on Wednesday, lands a day after a California judge let a key claim in a separate Microsoft antitrust case proceed.
On 29 September, President Trump said he had signed a "morally binding" AI agreement with technology executives at a White House luncheon. House Speaker Mike Johnson called the deal "voluntary on behalf of the industry", according to CNBC. The push for voluntary self-policing comes as antitrust and safety fights over the same companies move through courts and state regulators.
The US tech antitrust picture shifted twice in 48 hours, without a courtroom verdict either time: on Monday a federal judge dismissed publisher antitrust suits against Google over AI Overviews, and on Tuesday President Trump signed a "morally binding" AI agreement with industry leaders at the White House.
A US federal judge dismissed publisher antitrust lawsuits against Google over AI Overviews on 1 October, the same week OpenAI shelved its GPT-6.1 Astra model on safety grounds and President Trump signed what he called a "morally binding" AI accord at the White House.
President Donald Trump said on 29 September that he and tech leaders signed a 'morally binding' artificial intelligence document at the White House, one day after OpenAI confirmed it had shelved its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns.
OpenAI confirmed on Monday it will not release its GPT-6.1 Astra model over safety concerns, a day before President Donald Trump said he and tech leaders signed a "morally binding" AI agreement at the White House on 29 September.
On 29 September President Donald Trump said he signed a 'morally binding' AI document with tech leaders at a White House luncheon. The same week, court rulings against Microsoft and Google showed antitrust exposure is rising, not fading.
TSMC reported record fourth-quarter net income of NT$505.7 billion (about $16 billion), up 35 percent year over year, and said AI chip demand looks "endless." Micron, on the memory side of the same supply chain, says it can only meet half to two-thirds of demand from key customers.
Mazda said on 27 September that its CX-6e electric SUV now ships with a LiDAR suite enabling "advanced L2" autonomy, navigation on autopilot and automated parking in China, the same week a proposed class-action accused four AI labs of coordinating to slow development.
Four paying subscribers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google on 21 September, alleging their agreement to slow AI development is an antitrust violation, while a separate Google ad tech case ended with the company keeping its exchange.
Microsoft, Google and Nvidia are all inside live antitrust cases right now, and the outcomes will be decided less by the guilty verdicts than by the remedies that follow. Here is what the record shows so far.
TSMC reported record fourth-quarter net income of NT$505.7 billion (about $16 billion), up 35 percent year over year, and said on its earnings call that AI chip demand could keep growing for years.
Swedish vibe coding startup Lovable has been valued at $6.6 billion in a new funding round, according to two sources who spoke to CNBC, more than tripling the $1.8 billion valuation it reached in July.
The Federal Trade Commission is gathering evidence on whether Microsoft's cloud and AI bundling practices break competition law, according to civil investigative demands reviewed by The Verge. It puts the company back in a hot seat it last occupied 25 years ago.