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Sundar Pichai testified in the remedies trial that will determine which penalties Google will face for monopolizing the search engine market, calling the DOJ's proposals a "de facto divestiture" of the company's tech.

Pichai was called by Google in its defense, the second witness in its portion of the trial after the Department of Justice finished more than a week of its own questioning. John S

Sundar Pichai expressed optimism about integrating Google's AI platform, Gemini, into Apple iPhones. During the antitrust trial, he mentioned ongoing discussions with Apple, aiming for a deal by mid-year to enhance AI features across Apple devices,

Gemini already features prominently on Android devices, but formally adding it to Apple Intelligence would put Google's AI in front of a huge group of iPhone users.

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -Google hopes to enter an agreement with Apple by the middle of this year to include its Gemini AI technology on new phones, CEO Sundar Pichai said in testimony at an antitrust trial in Washington on Wednesday.