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As TikTok gears up to challenge the ban law, experts say the bill itself will face roadblocks in being implemented fully in reality.

A U.S. federal judge has set a trial date of Sept. 9, 2024, for the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department and a coalition of states against Google. The lawsuit, filed in January 2023, accuses Google of monopolizing the digital advertising market. The government wants Google to sell its ad manager suite. Google denies the allegations, saying it would harm innovation and small businesses. Google also faces trials in Texas and Washington, D.C., over its ad tech practices and web search dominance.

FTC launches inquiry into artificial intelligence deals such as Microsoft's OpenAI partnership

In what is expected to be the last week of trial, Kevin Murphy, who teaches at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, argued Apple and others played Google and Microsoft, which has the Bing search engine, off against each other in order to win big payments from Google.

The main allegation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expected to be that Amazon leverages its power to reward those online merchants that use its logistics services and punish ones who don't