Google’s case against Meta: The vergecast with Alex Heath on the Google ruling and why Microsoft is interested in the AI sector – The case of OpenAI

Lee-Anne Mulholland, a vice president of regulatory affairs, said in a statement that they won half the case and would appeal the other half. “The Court found that our advertiser tools and our acquisitions, such as DoubleClick, don’t harm competition. We disagree with the Court’s decision regarding our publisher tools. Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our ad tech tools are simple, affordable and effective.”

Similar to Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling in Google’s Search case, Judge Brinkema also warned Google over its failure to preserve internal communications, citing an internal messaging app that “deleted records of chats between employees.” The court didn’t need to sanction the company because they were able to make the decision using testimony and admitted evidence.

On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Alex Heath joins Nilay and David to talk through what the Google ruling means (with as little ad-tech talk as possible, we promise), as well as what it was like to be in the Meta courtroom all week. The FTC’s case against Meta is not so clear, and might depend on the power of MeWe. There are a lot of unanswered questions about social media platforms like email and phone calls still to come.

After that, we talk about some big news in the AI world. Openai is working on a social network that will compete with X and become a place people will want to go. Post their ripoff photos? Do you want to make funny jokes? Express themselves in new, awesome, creative ways? Who knows? But OpenAI’s ambition knows no bounds, and the AI industry is coming for practically every other product you use.

Brendan Carr is a Dummy will be done in the lightning round. We also discuss Allison Johnson doing an investigation into the five-year-old camera, and why Microsoft wants to be all over the Switch 2.