The European Commission officially opened an antitrust investigation into Google on December 9, 2025. As reported by Reuters, the regulator is investigating whether the tech giant is violating competition rules by using web publisher content and YouTube videos to train its AI models and the "AI Overviews" feature. The probe was initiated following a series of complaints from independent media and content creators fearing that Google is using their work to build services that divert traffic away from them.
EU Launches Antitrust Probe into Google over Content Usage for AI Overviews
