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Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

Exclusive: Google's AI Overviews hit by EU antitrust complaint from independent publishers
BRUSSELS, July 4 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has been hit by an EU antitrust complaint over its AI Overviews from a group of independent publishers, which has also asked for an interim measure to prevent allegedly irreparable harm to them, according to a document seen by Reuters.
Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews
The complaint accuses Google of “misusing web content for Google's AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic,
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Group of independent publishers alleges the technology is harming their business by diverting web traffic and undermining original content.
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