Google’s AI Overviews in Search now have “1.5 billion users per month,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement as part of Alphabet’s Q1 2025 earnings.
Google also announced in March that it would be officially dumping Assistant for Gemini on mobile “over the coming months,” and on today’s earnings call, Pichai said that “tablets, cars, and devices that connect to your phones such as headphones and watches,” would be moved over to Gemini later this year.
During Q1, Google earned $90.2 billion in revenue, a 12 percent increase year-over-year. In its earnings release, Pichai also highlighted that the company passed 270 million subscriptions, a figure that’s “driven by YouTube and Google One.”
One thing looming over Google right now, however, is the possibility that it will be broken up due to major losses in antitrust cases brought against the company by the US Department of Justice. The remedies trial following the ruling that Google is a monopoly in search is happening now, while Google lost its ad tech monopoly case in a ruling announced last week.
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