The Justice Department's years-long antitrust case against Google, now in closing arguments.

For today's Tech Check, our Deirdreboza is taking a look at what might be next for the Tech Giant.

Morning, D.

Hey, good morning, Carl.

So that actual ruling, which is still weeks potentially months away

could ultimately matter less than the distractions and the caution that the

trial has already imposed on Google think about the antitrust trials of the past.

Microsoft and IBM for example, even though they eventually won, they lost momentum

in their markets. So while Google's share price over the last year has not

reflected investor concerns around

the antitrust battle specifically it has reflected more volatility around the

next battle its gen AI vulnerabilities and its progress.

For example, down 8% on its first

Gen AI demo more than a year ago,

up post last year's I.

Down on Gemini Backlash, up again.

Last week on earnings that suggested ads might be able to live in a

chatbot world after all. Now one of the internal emails released as part of the

DOJ case revealed that Microsoft's chief technology officer was quote very very worried

that they were falling behind Google in Gen AI and that was part of their

motivation to invest that huge billions and billions of dollars investment

into open AI.

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