Asad Ramzanali and Joel Thayer argue that Google’s dominance in search has provided the financial resources and data infrastructure enabling its rise in artificial intelligence. They contend Google’s integration across products such as Chrome, Android, Gmail, and cloud services gives it distribution advantages that AI-native competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic cannot match. The authors maintain that a federal judge’s decision to impose only modest remedies for Google’s unlawful search monopoly was misguided, since it failed to prevent Google from leveraging that position to dominate emerging AI markets.
