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Google’s AI Overviews targeted in new EU antitrust probe (update*)

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst ( December 9, 2025, 08:24 GMT | Insight) -- Google is facing its fifth EU antitrust probe after officials started an investigation into AI services such as “AI Overviews,” which deliver summary responses to online search queries. The European Commission suspects that Google may have subjected publishers to “unfair trading conditions” by using their works to generate summaries, Teresa Ribera said. Scrutiny will also fall on video content on YouTube used to train AI models. Google said the allegations risked “stifling innovation.” *Google is facing its fifth EU antitrust probe after officials started an investigation into AI services such as “AI Overviews,” which deliver summary responses to online search queries....

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