“The European Union opened an antitrust investigation into Alphabet's Google, citing concerns about how it uses uploaded content on platforms such as YouTube to power and train its artificial-intelligence tools.
The European Commission said it is looking into whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers or by giving itself privileged access to their content. The EU's executive arm said such practices could put Google's AI tools at an advantage over rivals.
The watchdog said it is concerned Google might have unfairly used publishers' content to provide AI-powered services such as its AI Overviews and used content uploaded to its YouTube video streaming platform to train its own generative AI models.
The commission received a legal complaint this year from publishers over Google's AI Overview tool, which alleged the company was unfairly directing traffic away from news websites.
A Google representative said the complaint risks stifling innovation. "Europeans deserve to benefit from the latest technologies and we will continue to work closely with the news and creative industries as they transition to the AI era," the representative said.
The probe comes as Google gains ground in the AI race. The search giant released the latest version of its Gemini AI chat service last month, sending its stock soaring and prompting OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman to declare in a company memo a "code red" to improve ChatGPT.” [1]
1. EU Probes Google Over Use of Online Content to Power AI. Hancock, Edith. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 10 Dec 2025: B4.
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