"Alphabet Inc.'s Google wants to retain the right to bundle its popular mapping and video apps with its Gemini AI service, a lawyer for the company told a federal judge Wednesday, pushing back on a Justice Department proposal that would bar the practice. "There's no notion that Google has to date gained monopoly or market power" in the artificial intelligence market, Google lawyer John Schmidtlein told Judge Amit Mehta."
"Mehta, who found that Google has monopolized search and search advertising, is crafting a remedy to resolve the company's illegal conduct. In a decision last month, he ruled that Google could no longer pay companies to exclusively use its Search, Chrome web browser or Google Play Store, though he declined to bar all payments outright. Mehta's ruling incorporated aspects of proposals from Google and the Justice Department, which led to Wednesday's hearing where both sides argued for him to adopt their language"
"During the trial, witnesses testified that Google offers an "all-or-nothing" bundle to device manufactures, effectively requiring they preload nearly a dozen of Google's apps if they want access to the the Play Store, the largest app store on Google's Android operating system. That requirement, for example, forced Microsoft Corp. to feature Google search on its Surface Duo touchscreen device instead of its own search engine, Bing."
Google seeks to retain the right to bundle Maps and YouTube with its Gemini AI service while opposing a Justice Department proposal to bar such bundling. A company lawyer argued that Google has not gained monopoly power in the AI market and that Maps and YouTube are not monopoly products. Judge Amit Mehta, who found Google monopolized search and search advertising, is crafting a remedy and recently limited certain exclusive payments for Search, Chrome and Play. Witnesses described an "all-or-nothing" bundling practice forcing manufacturers to preload multiple Google apps, shaping device choices such as Microsoft's Surface Duo.
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