Google paid Samsung ‘enormous sums’ to put Gemini AI on the Galaxy S25

A court ruling in a landmark DOJ antitrust case against Google found the company operates a Google Search monopoly. That lawsuit confirmed reports that Google has been paying Apple sums amounting to $20 billion a year for Google Search to be the default search engine on iPhone. That's just one of the findings in the case which will see its finality this year.

The court has to impose measures that Google will have to respect, likely after another round of appeals. Until then, the government and Google are back in court for the final weeks of hearings leading to a verdict.

The DOJ is asking for significant remedies for Google. Selling Google Chrome is one option the Department of Justice has considered. If that fails, decoupling Android from Google might be another. Unsurprisingly, Google doesn't like any of that, and it'll try to save its monopoly in court.

In the age of AI, Google has another big problem that might impact its case in the Google Search antitrust lawsuit. Google paid "enormous sums" of money to Samsung to have the Galaxy AI assistant preloaded on Samsung Galaxy S25 phones (and later models). 

That's right, Google seems to be engaging in the same kind of lucrative deals that helped it prop up Google Search on smartphones. It's doing it with AI, the evolution of online search, and it's doing it amid a massive lawsuit aiming to stop such behavior. Google, of course, disputes that.

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