Google’s Anti -Trust trial testimony this week shows that Google gives “a lot of money” to Samsung every month to present the Gemini AI app on Samsung devices, Reports Bloomberg. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google’s search engine is an illegal monopoly, its lawyers are emphasizing with the DOJ about how severe the possible penalty should be.
Google’s platforms and device partnership vice -president Peter Fatez Jeralde on Monday testified that Samsung’s payment for Google began in January. This is after Google Found that the law of dissatisfaction has been violatedDue to the similar arrangements with Apple, Samsung, and other companies of the Search, with other companies. When Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 series in January, that too Added as a default AI assistant to Gemini When the power button is pressed longer, take a back set with its own baxi assistant.
Information Nowadays, Fitz Jerald has testified that other companies have already set up Samsung on a deal to style their AI assistant apps, including anxiety and micro -soft. But a DOJ lawyer pointed out that Google’s letters were trying to amend their contract with phone makers, which the company presented at the hearing, was sent just before the trial just last week. Also, the internal slides presented today have apparently shown that Google is “considering more distribution agreements for which partners will need to search and chrome as well as Gemini in advance,” Information He writes
According to BloombergFootzerlde said the Gemini contract is a two -year contract with fixed monthly payments, as well as Google seeing Samsung giving a percentage of its subscription revenue to the Gemini app. The Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer, David Dhlokist, described the fixed monthly payment as a “huge amount”. Bloomberg Says How much is not known at all.
Unless DOJ is the wayThe results of these hearings may mean that in the future Google has been banned from preventing default placement deals, Sell ChromeAnd Google will be forced to grant the majority of the data that power the search. Google has argued that it only has to give up default placement deals.
Correction 26 April: The story had previously told that Samsung received a percentage of ADS income from the Gemini app, as reported actually Bloomberg. We have updated to reflect the story that Google Gemini shares a subscription revenue instead.