Welcome to the Verge Gast, the flagship podcast of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am currently in the hallway outside of courtroom 10 at the

E Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C.

Inside courtroom 10 is where USV Google, one of the most important tech trials in the

last two decades and probably the biggest antitrust trial since the Microsoft trial in the

late 90s, is currently going on.

I'm here in the building today because Satya Nadella at the CEO of Microsoft is taking

the stand to talk about search engines, Bing, AI, Apple, chat, GPT and who knows what

else.

There's a lot to talk to that guy about.

This trial has been weird and complex and important and today should be more the same.

And that actually is a big part of what we're going to talk about on the show today.

Yes, there are tons of gadgets coming out and lots of news to cover and we're going

to get to all of that.

Don't you worry.

We also have three very different lawsuits happening that could all change the way the

tech industry works.

So we're going to talk about USV Google and what we've learned so far about the future

of search.

We're also going to talk about the FTC's lawsuit against Amazon, which could be the next

big tech trial.

And we're going to talk about the trial of Sam Bankman-Freed, the former CEO of FTX,

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