Google’s AI Overviews in Search now have “1.5 billion customers monthly,” CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned in an announcement as a part of Alphabet’s Q1 2025 earnings.
Google additionally introduced in March that it could be formally dumping Assistant for Gemini on cell “over the approaching months,” and on immediately’s earnings name, Pichai mentioned that “tablets, automobiles, and units that connect with your telephones resembling headphones and watches,” can be moved over to Gemini later this yr.
Throughout Q1, Google earned $90.2 billion in income, a 12 p.c improve year-over-year. In its earnings launch, Pichai additionally highlighted that the corporate handed 270 million subscriptions, a determine that’s “pushed by YouTube and Google One.”
One factor looming over Google proper now, nonetheless, is the chance that it will likely be damaged up as a consequence of main losses in antitrust instances introduced towards the corporate by the US Division of Justice. The treatments trial following the ruling that Google is a monopoly in search is going on now, whereas Google misplaced its advert tech monopoly case in a ruling introduced final week.