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• AI competition accidentally saves Google from antitrust dismantlement

• Ray Dalio predicts dollar crisis will drive massive crypto adoption

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TODAY IN AI

AI competition accidentally saves Google from antitrust dismantlement

Federal Judge Amit Mehta just delivered a shocking victory for Google, ruling that Chrome and Android won't face forced sales despite the company's search monopoly. The judge wrote that "the emergence of GenAI changed the course of this case," essentially arguing that ChatGPT and other AI tools now threaten traditional search enough to reduce Google's dominance.

The Justice Department wanted to dismantle Google's core products, but Mehta said they "overreached." Google can keep paying Apple and others for search placement as long as deals aren't exclusive, preserving their $20 billion in annual payments. OpenAI and Perplexity had circled like vultures, with Perplexity floating a $34.5 billion offer for Chrome.

The irony is perfect: Google's AI rivals accidentally saved the company by proving they pose a competitive threat. This legal clarity might now free Google to push harder on Gemini-driven browser innovations without regulatory interference.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

Ray Dalio predicts dollar crisis will drive massive crypto adoption

The legendary investor who nailed the 2008 crisis is issuing another bombshell warning: America is heading toward a "debt-fueled heart attack" that's pushing capital straight into Bitcoin and gold. Dalio says bad debt situations are "threatening reserve currencies' appeals as storeholds of wealth," directly fueling crypto price rises.

U.S. debt is exploding while interest costs soar, forcing the Fed into an impossible choice: raise rates and risk default, or print money and destroy purchasing power. Dalio calls this the "traumatic last phase" of debt cycles seen in the 1930s and 1970s, but with one key difference—crypto now exists as an alternative.

Dalio recommends 15% portfolio allocation to gold or Bitcoin and admits owning BTC himself. When one of the world's most respected macro investors thinks the dollar's reserve status is cracking, Bitcoin becomes insurance, not speculation.

This isn't hype—it's a heavyweight calling the next move based on historical debt cycle patterns that have repeated throughout modern financial history.

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