By Jody Godoy
(Reuters) -The U.S. Division of Justice plans to problem an overview by December on what Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google should do to revive competitors after a choose earlier discovered the corporate illegally monopolized the marketplace for on-line search, prosecutors stated at a courtroom listening to in Washington on Friday.
Prosecutors didn’t element what treatment they may suggest, however Justice Division lawyer David Dahlquist stated it must be complete and consider how Google plans to combine synthetic intelligence into search.
Because the case was introduced, Google has rebranded its Bard AI product to Gemini, Dahlquist stated.
“What else are they interested by? What else is past that?” he stated on the listening to.
Prosecutors may search to have Google divest sure enterprise items, comparable to its Android cell machine working system, or finish billions of {dollars} in annual funds to smartphone makers and others to make sure that its search engine is the default on units and browsers.
Google’s lawyer John Schmidtlein stated on the listening to that the corporate wants an in depth proposal from prosecutors, and can probably search info from Microsoft (NASDAQ:) and OpenAI to organize any counter-argument on AI search.
Google has stated it plans to attraction the choose’s ruling.
U.S. District Choose Amit Mehta stated he may maintain a listening to within the spring and wish to rule by subsequent August.
