Google has hit a double whammy in Europe. The European Commission (EC) is attempting to break up its market-dominating digital advertising business, while the Irish Data Protection Commission is simultaneously stifling the launch of Google’s generative AI chatbot. One places Google’s breadwinning business in a chokehold, while the other sets the giant ever further behind in its pursuit of bleeding edge technologies. Starting with the big bucks, the EC – the executive arm of the European Union (EU) – has accused Google of “favoring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competing providers of advertising technology services, advertisers and online publishers.” The Commission has therefore demanded that Google divest its advertising business in order to address these antitrust concerns. If…