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The US Department of Justice is still calling for Google to sell its web browser Chrome, according to a Friday court filing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The DOJ first proposed that Google should sell Chrome<\/a> last year, under then-President Joe Biden, but it seems to be sticking with that plan under the second Trump administration. The department is, however, no longer calling for the company to divest all its investments in artificial intelligence, including the billions Google has poured into Anthropic<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cGoogle\u2019s illegal conduct has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc over the<\/p>\n marketplace to ensure that \u2014 no matter what occurs \u2014 Google always wins,\u201d the DOJ said in a filing signed by Omeed Assefi, its current acting attorney general for antitrust. (Trump\u2019s nominee <\/a>to lead antitrust for the DOJ still awaits confirmation.)<\/p>\n For that reason, the DOJ said it hasn\u2019t changed the \u201ccore components\u201d of its initial proposal, including the divestment of Chrome and a prohibition on search-related payments to distribution partners.<\/p>\n On AI, the DOJ said it\u2019s no longer calling for \u201cthe mandatory divestiture of Google\u2019s AI investments\u201d and will instead be satisfied with \u201cprior notification for future investments.\u201d It also said that instead of giving Google the option to divest Android now, it will leave a future decision up to the court, depending on whether the market becomes more competitive.<\/p>\n This proposal follows antitrust suits filed by the DOJ and 38 state attorneys general, leading Judge Amit P. Mehta to rule that Google acted illegally<\/a> to maintain a monopoly in online search. Google has said it will appeal Mehta\u2019s decision, but in the meantime offered an alternative proposal<\/a> that it said would address his concerns by providing partners with more flexibility.<\/p>\n