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Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally compelled them to make major shifts to their products and businesses.

A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.

Google’s parent company reported that sales climbed 13 percent to $86.3 billion while profit jumped 52 percent.

The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.