Judge clears way for DOJ's antitrust case against Google to go to trial

The trial will begin in the midst of a boom in generative AI -- a wave of new technology that has been pushed by Google's competitors and has thrown the company onto its back foot. Google executives have already begun arguing that the rise of AI companies like OpenAI shows that the tech world is still competitive and that the company doesn't have an unfair grip on who wins and who loses, as some antitrust experts and the company's competitors have argued.