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Will America’s government try to break up Google?

Antitrust remedies that target its generative-AI ambitions are more likely

Illustration of a google logo on a green share price arrow facing down and an apple logo on a red ahare price arrow facing up
Illustration: Rose Wong
|SAN FRANCISCO

For years shareholders have paid little heed to the thunderbolts hurled at America’s west-coast technology giants by the trustbusting deities of Washington, DC. No longer. Despite expectations of solidly rising profits, the share price of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is wobbling (see chart).

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