Google hit with antitrust complaint in EU over AI summaries harming web traffic to news sites: report

Google’s controversial AI-generated summaries — which have been blamed for crushing the traffic of US news sites — have drawn an antitrust complaint in the European Union from a group of independent publishers.The complaint, dated June 30 and submitted by the Independent Publishers Alliance, accuses Google of abusing its dominant position in online search by promoting its own AI-generated summaries over links to original content.The filing by the Independent Publishers Alliance, seen by Reuters, requests th ...