Are Google's monopoly cases 5 years too late or 2 years too early?

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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When US District Court Judge Amit Mehta found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its monopoly in online search, it was seen as a major defeat for Google. The decision could alter the way the tech giant does business, shake up opportunities for search startups, and even change the structure of the internet. While Google plans to appeal either way, there's another antitrust case coming up the pipeline: the DOJ and eight states are accusing Google of creating an advertising technology monopoly that squashes competition, forces publishers and advertisers to use Google's ad tech products. On today's episode, Rebecca Bellan is sitting down with lawyer, computer scientist, and head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, Neil Chilson. Join the conversation as we take a closer look at competition, a potential Google breakup, how to unwind a 16-year-old merger, and why these cases may actually be too early in the age of AI. If you want to dive deeper into the early wave of major legal cases regarding tech giants, their in-market heft and behavior, Rebecca Bellan joined Alex Wilhelm back in November to talk through it all. You can catch that episode here. Equity will be back on Friday with our weekly news roundup, so stay tuned!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, Tech Crunch's flagship podcast about the business of
0:15.2	startups. I'm Rebecca Belan and this is our Wednesday episode where we hone in on a
0:19.3	trend in the tech world and dive deep. Today we're talking about all things Google, monopolies, and AI with
0:25.3	lawyer, computer scientists, and head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute, Neil
0:29.8	Chilson. Neil, welcome to the show. It's great to be here. So give me a bit of a background about
0:35.1	Abundance Institute and your personal work background so we can see how that overlaps
0:39.4	what we're going to discuss today. Sure, so the Abundance Institute is a new mission-driven nonprofit that's dedicated to creating an
0:46.1	environment for emerging technologies, an environment that's both in the cultural space and
0:51.0	the policy space that helps them develop and thrive. We believe that
0:54.8	widespread human abundance is driven by technological innovation and we want to
0:58.8	create a cultural and policy space that allows that to happen.
1:01.8	I love that.
1:02.5	So my own personal background is I spent time as a telecom lawyer and then I went to the Federal
1:07.9	Trade Commission where I was an attorney advisor to Maureen O'Lhausen and then was eventually the acting chief technologist of the agency.
1:16.0	And since then I've been doing all things tech policy, but my focus at the Abundance Institute
1:21.2	is very much on AI, and AI is basically swabed. The whether it's encryption or privacy or bias, competition,
1:35.0	which we're here to talk about today.
1:36.4	All of those issues are sort of being reframed
1:39.5	in the lens of AI.
1:40.5	And so my work is very similar to the previous 10 years of my work but with a new exciting
1:47.2	application.
1:48.2	So that's what I've been doing.
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