'It feels like a startup energy': Google's UK boss on the advent of AI

Google's central London office cost as much as a tech unicorn and the company's UK boss, Debbie Weinstein, says it pulses with a similar spirit. "It feels like a startup energy," she says. However, we are meeting on a morning when Google has been threatened with a reckoning reserved for members of the corporate establishment, not tech ingenues: a breakup. Hours earlier, the US Department of Justice had asked a federal judge to order the sale of Google's Chrome browser, along with a host of other actions including making its search index – a database of all the webpages it has crawled – available to competitors. It follows a ruling by the same judge in August that the 2tn company has built an illegal monopoly in the search market.