The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said it was asking Congress to keep its budget unchanged next year and its workforce significantly leaner following recent deep staff cuts.

During the final stage of the Justice Department’s antitrust trial against Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta signaled uncertainty over how far the court should go in curbing the tech giant’s dominance in internet search,

At the endpoint of a historic tech antitrust case, there are still key questions about how online search works, what AI's role is and what Google owes its competitors in a landscape that has changed dramatically since the case was filed in 2020.