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The proposed conduct requirements include providing publishers with more control and transparency over Google’s use of publisher content in its Search Artificial Intelligence (AI) features and broader AI services, as well as Google’s application of its ranking and spam policies ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance today released a statement in response to Google's announcement that it would begin exploring options for content producers to opt out of their content being used in its search-related generative AI products, like AI Overviews or AI ... Read More

This afternoon, the European Commission announced a fine of $3.45 billion for Google for its anticompetitive actions in the advertising technology market ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance submitted comments on May 19 commending the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for investigating technology platforms' implementation of "opaque or unpredictable" internal procedures to restrict users’ access ... Read More

Yesterday, Google announced a new feature called A.I. mode, which will allow users to interact with its search engine as if it were an A.I. chatbot ... Read More

The Oregon Senate Rules Committee voted 3-2 to advance SB 686, the Oregon Journalism Protection Act, which would require large online tech platforms to fairly compensate Oregon news organizations for local content that contributes to platform profits ... Read More

On April 30, the Canadian Journalism Collective announced that they have started distributing payments to publishers from Google’s payment under Canada’s Online News Act ... Read More

Arlington, VA - Today, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in advertising technology. This monopoly has allowed the company to force news ... Read More