Seattle mayor sets new return-to-office mandate | ‘Google is a monopolist’ 

“Google is a monopolist”: That’s the word from a ruling in favor of the Justice Department in a landmark antitrust case that could have huge implications for the tech industry. Read more.

• After Google antitrust loss, some at Microsoft see an opening for Bing (The Information)

• How the Google antitrust ruling may influence tech competition (The New York Times)

• Europe never found a remedy that increased search competition. Will the U.S. fare any better? (Platformer)

First Mode layoffs: A new filing shows that 65 workers will be laid off at the Seattle-based clean-tech company. Read more.

Can you spot AI-generated images? Microsoft put out a new quiz to test if people can determine the difference between real images and fake ones (such as the dog above) made with AI. Try it out yourself.

Seattle industrial analytics startup Seeq raised $50 million to fuel growth and help customers optimize operations across energy, pharmaceuticals, mining and more. Read more.

Tech Moves: Former GitLab exec joins Amazon’s Project Kuiper team; Docusign hires president and CTO; and more personnel changes. 

Neuroscience of addiction: Researchers recently gathered at the Allen Institute in Seattle to discuss how drugs such as fentanyl change brain activity and the possibilities for new treatments. Read more.

Seattle digital remittance company Remitly is opening a new office in the Greater Vancouver, B.C., area with room for 35 employees. Read more.

Hot Links:

• Data from Seattle real estate giant Redfin highlights how climate change is — and isn’t — affecting where people decide to live. (The Washington Post)

• Microsoft fired back at Delta and accused the airline of declining repeated offers for help during the CrowdStrike outage that crippled computers running Windows. (CNBC)