EU launches probe into Google’s use of content for AI purposes

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Tue, December 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM EST

STORY: The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe to assess whether Google is breaching EU competition rules.That’s in its use of online content from web publishers and Youtube for artificial intelligence purposes.The Commission announced the news on Tuesday (December 9).It said the investigation will examine whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair conditions on publishers and content creators.Or by granting itself privileged access to such content, and placing developers of rival AI models at a disadvantage.The Commission further said it was concerned Google may have used content from web publishers to generate AI-powered services on its search results pages.That’s without appropriate compensation to publishers and without offering them the possibility to refuse such use of their content.The Commission added it is also looking at whether Google has used content uploaded to Youtube to train its own AI models.And without offering creators compensation or the possibility to refuse.

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