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Google pays Samsung a “huge sum” for pre -installing Gemini

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Certificate this week with Google’s Antitrust Trial shows that Google gives Samsung a “huge sum of money” each month to pre -install the AI ​​Gemini application on Samsung devices, Reports Bloomberg. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google search engine is an illegal monopoly, his lawyers are parring with how sedate a potential punishment should be.

Information He reports that today Fitzgerald testified that other companies set Samsung in offers to pre -install their AI application assistant, including embarrassment and Microsoft. But the lawyer would point out that Google letters trying to change the contract with the creators of the phone, which the company presented at the hearing, were sent only last week, just before the trial. In addition, the inner slides presented today have apparently shown that Google “considering more restrictive distribution agreements that would require partners for the initial Gemini installation along with searching and chrome” Information I’m writing.

According to BloombergFitzgerald said that the Gemini agreement is a two -year contract that, together with the fixed monthly payments, sees Google, which Google gives Samsung a percentage of advertising from the Gemini application. The lawyer of the Department of Justice (Doj) David Dahlquist called a fixed monthly payment “Huge sum” Bloomberg says. Exactly how huge it is known.

If it has its own way, the results of these interrogations may mean that Google can start to hit the default offers in the future, he would sell Chrome and be forced to licensed the huge majority of data that supply Google search. Google argued that he should only give up the default offers of destinations.

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