Google’s Glory: How About a Nobel Prize in Competition

Two of its scientists get the prize in Chemistry and Google gets an antitrust complaint from the law firm of Biden, Harris, & Garland.

AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file
Google headquarters at Mountain View, California. AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file

So how is Google rewarded for incubating an artificial intelligence research laboratory, DeepMind, for which two of its scientists, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, were just announced to have won, along with a third scientist from University of Washington, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? The Justice Department, in a proposed remedy framework issued on Tuesday, disclosed that it is considering forcing the tech company to break up its parts. 

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