From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

For decades, the government has struggled with how to police monopolies in the tech industry.

And this week, a landmark ruling in a case against Google marked the most aggressive attempt in the modern era

to level the playing field.

Today, my colleague David McCabe

on who won, who lost,

and what this means for the race to dominate artificial intelligence.

It's Thursday, September 4th.

So, David, a year ago, a federal judge decided that Google had broken the law to maintain its dominance over search.

That basically, it had legally maintained its monopoly.

And since then, everyone has been waiting to see what the punishment could be,

because the punishment in this case could have enormous implications for the tech industry.

And here we are this week.

The decision comes out.

The punishment is clear.

And it seems like a slap on the wrist.

Yeah.

So on Tuesday, a little bit after 4 p.m., I get a message from someone we work with that just said, it's dropped.

And I knew immediately what they were talking about.

Basically that your day was going to be completely scrambled.

Yeah, we had been preparing for this for a long time, and now it was go time.

And we start making our way through this ruling. It's 223 pages long. But it becomes clear within minutes that this is really a

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