Paris - 23 July 2026: The French magazine publishers' association SEPM accuses Google of violating commitments made to the French competition authority by introducing AI-generated summaries in search. Google gradually rolled out the AI Overviews feature in France on Wednesday, 22 July 2026. The automatically generated answers appear before conventional result links for certain search queries.On Thursday, the SEPM criticized the rollout as having taken place without prior information, consultation or negotiations with the affected publishers. In the association's view, Google is no longer using journalistic content solely to direct ...
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