Quite possible, but my bet is that they will buy the winners, just like after dotcom

They don’t pay that much tax to where I am from, so if the US wants to do so, have fun.

Yes, but I don’t see floods of users switching to better privacy options any time soon

I don’t see how Google would willingly get rid of the goodwill and data of normal users like that. Most people don’t know about the sheer site of Googles ad revenue. Also, Google will be the player that shows ads in Google answers, so the moat for ads will become bigger instead of smaller in my mind. Do you have a source on Google ads dying? Last I heard was that it was very profitable for alphabet.

Google and Microsoft are profitable without ai. So I’d assume the bubble popping will not crash them

And open models regularly have versions released that remove these restrictions. Qwen won’t answer any questions June 1989 in Tianmen square, but the unrestricted version does.