{"id":50509,"date":"2025-09-08T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50509\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:34:09","slug":"chatgpt-rides-to-the-rescue-for-google-investors-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/50509\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT rides to the rescue for Google investors \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">It\u2019s been a good week for Alphabet shareholders. For all the talk of generative AI toppling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/google\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/google\">Google<\/a>\u2019s search empire, it has ended up propping it up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A year ago the US justice department won a landmark case declaring Google an illegal monopolist. Investors braced for a brutal remedy: perhaps a forced sale of Chrome or Android, or the loss of its $20 billion default search deal with Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\">Then came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chatgpt\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/chatgpt\">ChatGPT<\/a>. By shaking confidence in Google\u2019s dominance, AI gave Judge Amit Mehta a reason to tread lightly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe emergence of GenAI changed the course of this case,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">End result: no Chrome sale. Rivals will get some access to Google\u2019s data, but the concessions are crumbs beside the cake, as evidenced by investors\u2019 reaction. The stock popped 9 per cent, its biggest one-day gain since March 2006 outside of earnings news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Despite periodic agonising that AI represents an existential threat to Google, Alphabet is now up more than 130 per cent since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, with the company valued at a record $2.8 trillion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The irony is unmistakable: for now at least, disruption has proved a friend to Google, not a foe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a good week for Alphabet shareholders. For all the talk of generative AI toppling Google\u2019s search&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,297,18,823,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-50509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-google","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}