European Commission Probes Google AI Summaries

Regulators Question Whether Google Compensates Publishers for Auto Summaries Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 9, 2025

Google faces a fresh probe into its competitive practices after the European Union said it will investigate the search engine giant's propensity to convert web content into fuel for its artificial intelligence models.

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The probe will investigate whether AI-powered search result summaries placed at the top of the result page is based on scanning publishers' content without compensation. Publishers may have no choice but to allow Google to summarize their content, the commission said, out of fear of being cut off from the search engine.

It will also look at whether Google uses videos uploaded to YouTube to train generative models - again without compensation or real ...