On the market: one browser, extremely popular. Because the treatments section of the Google Search trial heats up, two issues have develop into very clear. The US authorities would love to pressure Google to promote Chrome, and there are loads of firms serious about shopping for it. What do you actually get if you purchase the world’s hottest browser, although? And what wouldn’t it actually price?
On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay, David, and The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes try to discover the proper purchaser for Chrome. However earlier than that, we’ve some information to get to. Information together with that we won the Webby Award for Finest Know-how Podcast! Thanks once more to everybody who voted for us — we have been up towards some glorious competitors, and we’re thrilled you picked us. We even have some Get together Speaker Capitalism Updates, some ideas and tales about making an attempt to purchase a Swap 2, and loads of complicated new details about tariffs. I mean, it’s one gadget, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
After that, we head into the courtroom, the place each Google and Meta are preventing for his or her antitrust lives. We discuss what the trial means for AI firms and search opponents alike, and why there aren’t as many lifelike Chrome patrons as you may assume. There may solely be one which is smart. (One we fail to even think about: Yahoo, which stated it was simply after we completed recording.) We additionally talk about Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom’s scorching testimony within the Meta trial, and why it is likely to be damaging to Meta’s case.
If you wish to know extra about every part we talk about on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began, first in gadget and tariff information:
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