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targeting other companies or entities that might be facilitating Lighthouse.

Google says its logo is on many websites and website templates created by Lighthouse, and that undermines user trust in Google.

Google is among NPR's financial supporters.

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Epic Games sued Google five years ago, arguing that Google's Play Store for apps on Android devices was a monopoly with high fees.

Epic won in 2023, and a judge later said Google must allow other app stores on Android.

But Google appealed late last year, and the case has dragged on.

Now, Google and Epic say they've agreed to a set of changes to Android and Google Play.

Google says they focus on expanding developer choice and flexibility, lowering fees, and encouraging more competition while keeping users safe.

If approved, the settlement ends one of several cases that Google faces challenging its dominance over swaths of the Internet.

Google is a financial supporter of NPR.

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The new browser is called Atlas, and the company says it's built with the chatbot ChatGPT at its core.

Part of what it'll be able to do is remember past searches and context from those searches.

The company says that'll make it easier to, say, pull up previous results and work with them.

It'll also be able to summarize and analyze content from websites.

OpenAI launched the browser on macOS and says it'll be available on Windows, iOS, and Android soon.

Move takes the competition between so-called AI answer engines and traditional search to new levels.

Traditional search is dominated by Google and its Chrome browser, which is the world's most popular way to access the internet.

But ChatGPT has leapt in popularity as an information retrieval tool.