Google is paying “enormous” sums of money to guarantee its Gemini #Artificial Intelligence chatbot placement on Android phones, such as those sold by Samsung, in a repeat of its playbook for Google search which the court has ruled illegal, a lawyer for the Justice Department claimed in court on Wednesday. The lawyer, David Dahlquist, was speaking in opening statements on the first day of hearings aimed at coming up with remedies to deal with Google’s search monopoly. A lawyer for Google, in opening statements for the company, disputed the Justice Department’s characterization of the Gemini agreements but didn’t go into details. Dahlquist foreshadowed the statements that witnesses for the government would make in the hearing over the next few days. These include OpenAI’s head of product, Nick Turley, who the lawyer said will testify about OpenAI’s challenges in getting enough distribution for its ChatGPT AI chatbot. Turley will testify that despite the company’s resources and the popularity of ChatGPT, they can only get 80% of the way to be able to compete with Google quickly, with the remaining 20%—being able to handle the “long tail” of uncommon queries—taking a long time, even years. The government wants the court to force Google to share search data with rivals and to divest its Chrome web browser, which the government said was the entry point for 35% of search queries. A lawyer for the state of Colorado, who is appearing alongside the government, said Chrome had more than 4 billion monthly active users. The lawyer said a longtime investment banker would testify that Chrome was an “attractive acquisition opportunity.” The hearing is scheduled to last for three weeks, while the judge is expected to rule by August. https://bgr.com/tech/goog..