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Rani Molla

Google’s Chrome browser could be sold for up to $50 billion, browser rival DuckDuck CEO Gabriel Weinberg testified at a Department of Justice hearing on how to remedy Google’s search monopoly. He added that it was “out of DuckDuckGo’s price range.” That’s much higher than the $20 billion Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh estimated last November, and Weinberg said the calculation is based on “back-of-the-envelope” math. But it doesn’t seem that expensive when you realize that Google Search, which is highly integrated with the Chrome browser, brought in more than that much in revenue, $54 billion, last quarter alone.

As we’ve written before, experts have said that forcing Google’s parent company Alphabet to offload Chrome is unlikely to happen, noting that asking it to do so is more of a negotiating tactic than a likely remedy. Even if the court decides Google has to sell Chrome, it’s unclear who could afford it. The judge is expected to decide on remedies in August.

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Judge blocks Pentagon’s move to blacklist Anthropic

A federal judge in Northern California has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk.

The ruling temporarily prevents the Defense Department from restricting the AI company’s access to federal contracts amid a dispute over its refusal to allow certain military and surveillance uses of its technology. The designation could also have shifted lucrative government work toward competitors, including OpenAI.

Earlier this month, Anthropic, the company behind Claude, sued 17 federal agencies and their heads, alleging the government exceeded its statutory authority.

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