Alphabet Inc's Google wants to retain the right to bundle its popular mapping and video apps with its Gemini AI service, a lawyer for the company told a US federal judge on Oct 8, pushing back on a Justice Department proposal that would bar the practice.

"There’s no notion that Google has to date gained monopoly or market power” in the artificial intelligence market, Google lawyer John Schmidtlein told Judge Amit Mehta. Likewise, "there’s been no finding that Maps is a monopoly product or that YouTube is a monopoly product.”