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OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience

OpenAI would love to own Chrome, and it’s allegedly not alone.

The companies have no ongoing partnership today, but Turley noted that forcing Google to license its search data would restore competition. While Judge Amit Mehta has expressed some skepticism about the DOJ's proposal to divest Chrome, the government claims the browser is core to Google's anticompetitive conduct. Several months ago, the company hired former Google developers Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, both of whom worked to bring Chrome to market.

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