Google Agrees to Give DOJ AI Docs After Search Monopoly Ruling

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will give up some documents on the integration of generative AI in search as part of the next phase in the federal government’s monopoly case against the tech giant.

The company is open to providing the Justice Department with records on generative AI provided they relate to the online search market, Google counsel John Schmidtlein of Williams & Connolly said Thursday during a hearing in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Google is also prepared to produce documents tied to AI tools that are in “engineering development,” Schmidtlein said, in what he called a ...