What’s next. The CMA plans a second phase of scrutiny in early 2026, potentially expanding into Google’s ad dominance, relationships with publishers, and treatment of search rivals.

OpenAI, Google and Microsoft declined to comment. Alphabet's stock was up 2.1% on Tuesday afternoon following the news, while Microsoft shares were down 0.6%.

The AI push comes as Google faces intense pressure from the feds over its business model – including losses in a pair of antitrust cases brought by the DOJ that could force a breakup of the company.

Google’s AI Overview challenges Section 230 “because it sounds a lot more like something that Google wrote,” McGeveran said. It sounds like it was written by a human, even though it wasn’t.

For CIOs, CISOs and AI leaders, the panel’s revelations demand strategic recalibration: Capacity planning requires new models. Traditional IT forecasting assumes linear growth.

Hugging Face is aiming to differentiate itself by building AI into the foundation of its new spreadsheet tool, which it's marketing to researchers, data analysts, and other professionals.

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Google is already fighting a record €4.1 billion ($4.76 billion) European Union antitrust fine and a US judge is weighing whether to break up the company and to make it sell its Chrome web browser.

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