Judge Weighs Big Changes to Google, Including Breakup, AI Limits

(Bloomberg) — The federal judge who will decide how to limit Google’s monopoly in search is considering its advantage in artificial intelligence, and aiming to minimize harm to the other players in the market with any resolution.

On Friday in US District Court in Washington, attorneys for Alphabet Inc.’s Google and the Justice Department answered Judge Amit Mehta’s final questions in the government’s monopoly case against the search giant. It will be up to Mehta to decide whether to break up the company and reshape the internet or impose more limited remedies. Mehta has previously said he expects to issue a ruling by August.