Top stories today:

1. Google faces DOJ push for breakups, data sharing
2. FTC sues Uber over shady subscription charges
3. Airbnb to show full price of stays under new FTC rule
4. Instagram ramping up AI to detect teens lying about their age
5. Traders unmoved as market slips under radar

0. Data and calendar

Listen to our AI-generated podcast summarizing today’s newsletter (beware of hallucinations):

1. Google faces DOJ push for breakups, data sharing

• “We’re here to restore competition to these markets,” DOJ lawyer David Dahlquist said on Mon.

• The government’s proposal to divest Chrome was questioned by Judge Amit Mehta.

• Whether divestiture met the higher “causation” standard for a structural remedy over a behavioral one, the judge asked.

• Provisions requiring Google to share technical data with competitors have also been demanded by the DOJ.

• Google should divest Android if the search market doesn’t change in 5 years, the government said.

• The proposed remedies are “extreme” and “fundamentally flawed,” a Google lawyer said.

• Paid Samsung “enormous sum of money” every month to preinstall the Gemini AI app, Google VP Peter Fitzgerald told Mehta.

• Aug.: Mehta called Google a “monopolist.”

• Separately, Google has settled an Android TV antitrust case in India by paying $2.4M.

3. FTC sues Uber over shady subscription charges