DOJ: Google Can Keep AI Investments but Must Sell Chrome

Core Insights - The Justice Department has abandoned its attempt to force Google to divest its artificial intelligence investments, but is still pursuing a court order to compel the sale of its Chrome browser due to a ruling on illegal search monopoly [1][2] - The DOJ's lawsuit against Google, initiated in 2020, alleges unlawful competitive practices to maintain dominance in search and advertising, with a judge set to hear further evidence in April [2] - Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Google with a $3 billion investment, has requested the court to allow Google to retain its AI investments, arguing that divesting would harm competition [3] Google AI Developments - Google recently launched an experimental search feature called "AI mode," which enhances reasoning capabilities and supports multimodal content understanding, allowing users to ask follow-up questions [4][5] - The AI mode is designed to assist users with complex inquiries that require deeper exploration and comparisons, providing AI-generated responses with additional resources [5] - Google introduced AI Overviews in May, which summarizes information from multiple sources alongside search results [6]