Google Reserves Key Search Data for Gemini, Not Rival AI Apps

Google last year began offering some artificial intelligence firms a way to anchor chatbot responses in its search results, but still reserves key features for its own AI service, Gemini, a company executive testified.

Liz Reid, Google’s head of search, was describing in court Tuesday how the Alphabet Inc. unit handles requests for its data to be used by artificial intelligence models.

Google has been pushing back on a proposal by the US Justice Department that the company share much of the data it collects to build its search results. Reid’s testimony that Google’s current practices favor its own AI ...