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Alphabet (GOOGL -2.78%) (GOOG -2.70%) stock is losing ground in Monday's trading. The company's share price was down 3% as of 3:15 p.m.

CNBC's Eamon Javers joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the latest details on Google and Meta's legal battles.

I'm upgrading Alphabet Inc. aka Google stock to a strong buy ahead of Q1 2025 earnings despite tariff and antitrust challenges. The stock is down 22% YTD and is now trading at $150, which I think is an attractive price for those looking to hold the stock for the long term. I think Google's business remains resilient amid tariff risks, with YouTube and cloud services showing promising growth against competitors like Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.

With the advent of next-gen, reasoning AI, Alphabet's search business, Google, has never been more controversial. Today, I will walk us through the considerations associated with the current search landscape, which, in my view, is experiencing dramatic evolution. Meta AI and OpenAI, with their 1B+ user total, have now firmly established themselves as legitimate search platforms, and, as they improve their tech, this trend will continue. That said, it's not all bad for Alphabet and its search property.

The judge who found that the tech company maintained an illegal monopoly is asked to force it to sell its Chrome web browser.

Google owner Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is expected to report stable first quarter results, with macroeconomic uncertainty and potential tariff impacts casting a shadow over the outlook for Q2 and Q3, analysts at Jefferies believe. Q1 earnings per share are expected to increase 7% year-over-year to $2.02, while revenue growth of 11% is expected at $89.18 billion.

As earnings season picks up, we're starting to get a feel for the different ways company leadership teams are talking -- or not talking -- about tariffs.

The Justice Department's historic bid to break up Google's monopoly over online search kicked off Monday – as the feds tried to persuade a judge that any antitrust must prevent the Big Tech giant from using artificial intelligence to crush rivals.

Meta Platforms (META) and Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google face ongoing cases with antitrust regulators in the US. Former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Rohit Chopra, joins Morning Brief with Brad Smith and Madison Mills to discuss the antitrust cases.

Global hedge funds last week dumped the so-called Magnificent Seven megacap stocks, bringing their exposure to the group to a two-year low just ahead of their earnings, according to a Morgan Stanley note to clients seen by Reuters.