Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts

Court's statements:

2024: "Google abused its monopoly position for search dominance"

2025: "Punishing Google now would be unreasonable because its dominance is under threat by AI"

Wrist slapped. Somebody got their bag. Over to you, EU.

The whole point was the 'boy who cried wolf' - OMG, we're not able to compete with Google because they are a monopoly.

And then Sam Altman came and showed how to make a better product, and all of a sudden people are like, there's an alternative.

You're blaming Google for Bing and ddg's shitty products.

Not sure what EU has to do with anything here, but it has long ago lost the ability to create viable tech companies. We have AI regulations with no AI companies, we have cloud regulations without any major cloud providers, we have internet privacy regulations without browser or social media companies. If you need an industry regulated to non-existence, we got you covered — otherwise I think we can't really help you out.