{"id":925379,"date":"2025-04-25T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=925379"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:10:12","slug":"google-blocked-motorola-use-of-perplexity-ai-witness-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/25\/google-blocked-motorola-use-of-perplexity-ai-witness-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Blocked Motorola Use of Perplexity AI, Witness Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Google\u2019s contract with Lenovo Group Ltd.\u2019s Motorola blocked the smartphone maker from setting Perplexity AI as the default assistant on its new devices, an executive of the startup testified at the search giant\u2019s antitrust trial.<\/p>\n<p>Perplexity\u2019s Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said Wednesday that the company\u2019s efforts to obtain preferential distribution on smartphones from manufacturers and wireless carriers were because of Google contracts, which he said are like a \u201cgun to your head\u201d for a company. His testimony came at a hearing to determine a remedy in the Justice Department\u2019s lawsuit against Google after the Alphabet Inc. unit it was found to have an illegal monopoly in search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Google\u2019s contract with Lenovo Group Ltd.\u2019s Motorola blocked the smartphone maker from setting Perplexity AI as the default assistant on its new devices, an executive of the startup testified at the search giant\u2019s antitrust trial. Perplexity\u2019s Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said Wednesday that the company\u2019s efforts to obtain preferential distribution on smartphones from manufacturers and wireless carriers were because of Google contracts, which he said are like a \u201cgun to your head\u201d for a company. His testimony came at a hearing to determine a remedy in the Justice Department\u2019s lawsuit against Google after the Alphabet Inc. unit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}