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Google's antitrust loss and Samsung's Galaxy AI expansion top the Innovation Index

In this week's Index, Google's reign is in question, and Samsung may have the upper hand in on-device AI.

Not an innovation, per se, but: Our top spot this week goes to Google, which has been found in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act for monopolizing search by a US District Court judge. At the same time, however, search is evolving -- OpenAI has finally revealed SearchGPT, if preliminarily, and other AI-powered engines are springing up all over the place. The problem is an example of the larger consequences of GenAI content becoming normalized in many environments: It's easier than ever to churn out and sell digital material quickly, cheaply, and at scale, and the results are harder to spot.

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