Will Google be broken up? What’s at stake in the coming antitrust ruling

August 20, 2025

US District Judge Amit Mehta is expected to issue a ruling soon with remedies to unwind Google’s monopoly. In anticipation of his decision, artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Perplexity expressed interest in acquiring Chrome, which together with the open-source Chromium software is the main way people access the web on PCs…