【Key Focus: EU Launches Antitrust Investigation into US Google】
On December 9, 2025, Brussels time, the European Commission stated in a statement:
The European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation to determine whether Google has violated EU competition rules by using content from online publishers and materials posted on the YouTube video platform for artificial intelligence purposes. The investigation will examine whether Google has distorted competition by imposing unfair conditions on publishers and content creators or granting itself privileged access to such content, which may put developers of competing AI models at a disadvantage. Google can use content from online publishers to provide generative AI services on its search result pages without proper compensation and without the right to opt out, and it can also use videos and other content uploaded to YouTube under the same conditions to train Google's generative AI models.
There is no legal deadline for completing this antitrust investigation.
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