{"id":338641,"date":"2025-12-09T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338641\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:49:30","slug":"google-hit-with-eu-antitrust-probe-over-use-of-online-content-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338641\/","title":{"rendered":"Google hit with EU antitrust probe over use of online content for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> was on Tuesday hit with an EU antitrust investigation over its use of online content for AI purposes, marking the latest in a series of crackdowns from the bloc on regulating U.S. big tech companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said it was investigating whether Google had breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on the online video-sharing platform YouTube, for AI purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AI is bringing remarkable innovation and many benefits for people and businesses across Europe, but this progress cannot come at the expense of the principles at the heart of our societies,&#8221; said the bloc&#8217;s commissioner for competition Teresa Ribera. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is why we are investigating whether Google may have imposed unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators, while placing rival AI models developers at a disadvantage, in breach of EU competition rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story. Refresh for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google was on Tuesday hit with an EU antitrust investigation over its use of online content for AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,38080,181,507,5681,122,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-338641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet-class-a","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-breaking-news-technology","13":"tag-business-news","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}