2025-09-03
13 分钟you Google dodges a legal bullet in the Justice Department's antitrust case.
Plus, a House committee releases tens of thousands of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
And flexing its military might, China displays its latest high-tech weapons in a dazzling parade.
China's showing that it has strength,
it has the ability to fight and possibly win a war with the United States and its allies,
including a nuclear one.
Wednesday, September the 3rd.
I'm Azhar Sukri for The Wall Street Journal.
Here is the AM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
We begin with a landmark antitrust ruling that's set to upend Google's search engine in a major crackdown on the company's dominance.
In the 226-page decision, federal judge Amit Mehta also issued a win for Google,
though, by rebuffing the US government's request to break up the company.
Journal tech reporter Sam Schechner joins me now.
Sam, just talk us through what this ruling means for the search engine Google as we know it now.
This stems from a decision last year where Judge Mehta found that Google engaged in illegal practices to preserve a search engine monopoly and the question here was okay what remedies was the government going to apply and force google to do in order to remedy that and what the judge ruled is that google can't pay to be the exclusive search engine on devices so android devices in the future google won't be able to force device makers to make it the exclusive search engine and it's also going to have to turn over some of its search data to a set of rival search engines.
So those are going to affect its business.
But I think actually the big headline here is that increasing competition in the search market from generative AI have sort of changed the balance of competition and search.
And the judge actually says in the ruling that that weighed on this.
And in many ways,