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Rolling Stone owner Penske Media sues Google over AI summaries
Penske's lawsuit accuses Google of abusing its monopoly power in search to force publishers to support AI summaries.
Google faces a new lawsuit accusing the company of illegally using news publishers’ content to create AI summaries that damage their business. The lawsuit comes from Penske Media (PMC), which owns industry publications such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Vibe, and Artforum. Penske’s suit comes after Google seemingly dodged an antitrust bullet — while a federal judge had ruled the company acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search, the judge did not to order the company to break up its businesses(for example by selling Chrome), due in part to an increasing competition in AI.
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