In a press release dated on 9 December 2025, the European Commission announced that it is investigating Google’s AI practices under EU competition law:
“The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Google has breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers, as well as content uploaded on the online video-sharing platform YouTube, for artificial intelligence (‘AI’) purposes. The investigation will notably examine whether Google is distorting competition by imposing unfair terms and conditions on publishers and content creators, or by granting itself privileged access to such content, thereby placing developers of rival AI models at a disadvantage.
(…) The Commission is concerned that Google may have used:
- The content of web publishers to provide generative AI-powered services (‘AI Overviews’ and ‘AI Mode’) (…)
- Video and other content uploaded on YouTube to train Google’s generative AI models (…)
If proven, these practices could break EU competition rules on abuse of dominance under Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement. Stay tuned to follow the next developments
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