Google's Innovative Moves and Antitrust Troubles

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Alex Heath, and Lauren Feiner discuss a federal judge ruling that Google violated US antitrust law, X suing a group of major advertisers over an “illegal boycott”, and the rest of this week's wild tech news.

Further reading:

• Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case
• All the spiciest parts of the Google antitrust ruling
• X files antitrust lawsuit against advertisers over ‘illegal boycott’ 
• The Global Alliance for Responsible Media is 'discontinuing' after Elon Musk's X filed an antitrust lawsuit against it
• Disney’s password-sharing crackdown starts ‘in earnest’ this September
• Disney’s streaming business turned a profit for the first time
• The price of Disney Plus is about to go up
• Logitech’s ‘forever’ mouse isn’t happening
• Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
• The Google TV Streamer might be the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for
• Humane’s daily returns are outpacing sales 
• Samsung’s Frame TV is finally getting the knockoffs it deserves 
• Microsoft says Delta ignored Satya Nadella’s offer of CrowdStrike help
• Hands-on with Google’s new Nest Learning Thermostat
• OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught

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