The European Commission on December 9, 2025, formally opened an antitrust investigation into Google, targeting the tech giant’s practice of using publisher content to develop and power AI-driven overviews without providing compensation to creators.
The probe will focus on whether Google’s use of news articles, academic papers, and other copyrighted content in its AI tools including search based AI summaries and large language model (LLM) training violates EU competition rules. Specifically, regulators expressed concerns that Google’s dominant position in search and AI technology gives it unfair leverage to exploit content without fair payment, potentially harming publishers and limiting competition in the digital content and AI sectors.
This marks the latest in a series of EU antitrust actions against Google, which has previously faced fines and regulatory mandates over issues like search bias, ad practices, and app store policies. The Commission noted that the investigation will assess whether Google’s behavior distorts the market by undercutting publishers’ ability to monetize their work, while strengthening its own position in the fast-growing AI space.
Google has not yet publicly commented on the new probe. EU antitrust investigations typically take 18 to 24 months to complete, and can result in fines of up to 10% of a company’s global annual revenue, as well as orders to change business practices.
Source: TVP World
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