Google paid Samsung to preload and integrate Gemini AI on phones

If you're using an Android phone, you've probably noticed that Google's Gemini AI assistant seems to be popping up everywhere, the same way it's been popping into Google Search, Docs, YouTube, etc. And this is true even if you aren't using a Google-branded phone. Turns out, that's no accident because Google is paying Samsung loads of money to make sure Gemini is front and center on its phones. The information comes from a predictable source: testimony in the ongoing and potentially disastrous Google antitrust case. Google has lost two separate antitrust cases brought by the US federal government in the last year.)