January 13, 2026
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.
September 15, 2025
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.