Google Local Antitrust Battle with Yelp, Gemini’s “Grounded” Local AI & ChatGPT’s New Local Results

00:00 Intro & Mike’s Dublin trip 02:57 Yelp’s lawsuit against Google 09:26 Google’s ad labeling changes 17:47 Gemini’s new grounded AI and hallucinations 24:18 ChatGPT’s local results redesign 28:52 AI trust, Atlas Browser, and truth vs. probability In this episode of The Near Memo, Mike Blumenthal and Greg Sterling break down three big developments in local search and AI: • Yelp’s revived antitrust suit against Google and what it means for local competition • Google’s new “grounded” Gemini AI and why its map data still hallucinates • ChatGPT’s latest local results experiment — a new map-based interface that could challenge Google They also discuss deceptive ad labeling, user behavior manipulation, and the philosophical implications of trust and “truth” in AI tools like Atlas Browser and Perplexity.