"Kanter’s fantastical remedies like Chrome divestiture and AI opt-outs have no connection to the Justice Department’s original case, and requiring Google to share data with rivals will only make Google search worse for consumers," Kovacevich said, predicting the proposed remedies won't "hold up in court.”

Requirements that officials are preparing to propose include that Google separate Android from Search and Google Play, but without trying to force Google to sell off Android. Anot

According to Bloomberg, the DOJ team has met with numerous lawyers and industry experts to decide on a path forward. The government now feels that Google's ownership of Chrome is core to its anticompetitive behavior, and the best way to rectify that is to force Google to let Chrome go.

It's the beginning of the end for ChromeOS as Google faces a pivotal challenge: compete with Apple's Arm dominance while leveraging AI and custom silicon to redefine affordable computing.

Google is reportedly migrating ChromeOS over to Android. Speculations suggest a Pixel Laptop could be the first to run the new Android desktop version. To reach full potential, Android would need desktop-like features currently present in ChromeOS.

New reports of a Google Pixel Laptop are out, and we suspect that this hardware is likely to run Android, not Chrome OS.