Business | Pound of flesh
Will America’s government try to break up Google?
Antitrust remedies that target its generative-AI ambitions are more likely
|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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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Pound of flesh ”
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