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OpenAI offers to buy the Chrome web browser from Google. Uh huh. (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The courts found against google in the huge search engine and online add cases, https://www.theverge.com/23869483/us-v-google-search-antitrust-case-updates finding that Google is a monopolist.

They may force Google to divest Chrome. That probably had some impact on this offer.

https://www.theverge.com/news/626502/trump-doj-recommends-google-breakup-antitrust-search-chrome

Of course, chrome is Google's primary ~~user~~useage tracking tool, so that would be a big blow for them. They'd have to buy the data they now generate themselves.