PENSKE MEDIA CORPORATION et al v. GOOGLE LLC et al

  1. October 01, 2026

    Google Beats Online Publishers' AI Overviews Antitrust Suit

    A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday dismissed antitrust suits from Chegg Inc. and Penske Media Corp. against Google, finding that their central claims that the search engine giant coerces publishers into supplying free content for its artificial intelligence products "fail to get out of the starting gate." 

  2. August 25, 2026

    Publishers Say Google Would Gut Web Traffic To Win AI Race

    A lawyer for education tech company Chegg Inc. told a D.C. federal judge Tuesday that Google LLC would likely rather cannibalize its search engine supply — and the whole internet in the process — than lose the artificial intelligence "arms race" Tuesday.

  3. January 13, 2026

    Google Moves To Toss Penske Media's AI Overview Suit

    Google has urged a D.C. federal court to dismiss Penske Media Corp.'s antitrust lawsuit accusing it of unlawfully coercing publishers into providing content for artificial intelligence-generated answers at the top of Google search result pages, painting its conduct as a lawful "refusal to deal" on PMC's preferred terms.

  4. September 15, 2025

    Rolling Stone Publisher Says Google AI Robs Its Content

    Google is using its monopoly as a search engine to strong-arm websites into allowing their content to be fed into the tech titan's artificial intelligence machine, which returns a response at the top of every search page, according to the publisher behind Rolling Stone and Variety.