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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Lauren Almeida and Dan Milmo

EU opens investigation into Google’s use of online content for AI models

Google logo at a convention centre in Paris
Google runs the Gemini AI model and is owned by Alphabet. Photograph: Blondet Eliot/ABACA/Shutterstock

The EU has opened an investigation to assess whether Google is breaching European competition rules in its use of online content from publishers and YouTube creators for artificial intelligence.

The European Commission said on Tuesday it would examine whether the US tech company, which runs the Gemini AI model and is owned by Alphabet, was putting rival AI owners at a “disadvantage”.

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