Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews

A national justice has dismissed a brace of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone genitor institution Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving distant web postulation with its AI-powered hunt features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's broadside in a ruling connected Wednesday, penning that PMC and Chegg's claims don't basal up to antitrust law.

In lawsuits filed past year, Chegg and PMC accused Google of abusing its monopoly powerfulness by coercing publishers into supplying contented for AI Overviews for free, oregon hazard disappearing from hunt results. The publishers alleged Google's practices diverted …

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