Google Faces Antitrust Complaint In The EU Over AI Overviews - 1

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Google Faces Antitrust Complaint In The EU Over AI Overviews

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has been hit with an antitrust complaint in the European Union over its AI Overview tool. An organized group, the Independent Publishers Alliance, submitted the complaint to the European Commisssion, alleging that Google is abusing its dominance in online search.

In a rush? Here are the quick facts:

  • Alphabet has been hit by an antitrust complaint in the EU.
  • The Independent Publishers Alliance issued a complaint against Google’s AI Overviews.
  • Publishers claim the AI summaries can cause significant harm to their businesses.

Google’s move has sparked concerns among publishers. The Independent Publishers Alliance filed the complaint on June 30.

“Google’s core search engine service is misusing web content for Google’s AI Overviews in Google Search, which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form of traffic, readership and revenue loss,” states the document, as reported by Reuters.

The publishers claim that Google’s placement of its AI Overviews tool, at the top of the search results uses content developed by them and negatively impacts the visibility and traffic of their original content.

“Publishers using Google Search do not have the option to opt out from their material being ingested for Google’s AI large language model training and/or from being crawled for summaries, without losing their ability to appear in Google’s general search results page,” explained the publishers in the complaint.

Google said it disagrees with the publishers’ claims. The tech giant stated that it send billions of clicks to publishers’ websites every day.

“New AI experiences in Search enable people to ask even more questions, which creates new opportunities for content and businesses to be discovered,” said spokesperson from Google to Reuters. “The reality is that sites can gain and lose traffic for a variety of reasons, including seasonal demand, interests of users, and regular algorithmic updates to Search.”

Another organization that includes multiple advertisers and publishers, Movement for an Open Web, also signed the Independent Publishers Alliance’s complaint.

Last week, Cloudflare announced Pay Per Crawl , a new system that allows publishers to charge AI bots for access to their content.

French Tech Giant Capgemini to Acquire WNS In AI Expansion - 2

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French Tech Giant Capgemini to Acquire WNS In AI Expansion

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager

The French giant Capgemini announced this Monday that it will acquire WNS, a leading Business Process Management (BPM) firm, for $3.3 billion in cash. With the new deal, Capgemini plans to expand its AI efforts.

In a rush? Here are the quick facts:

  • Capgemini to buy WNS for $3.3 billion to expand AI offering for businesses.
  • The companies will create an Intelligent Operations service to help companies integrate AI systems.
  • The tech giant expects to address the market’s needs in generative AI and agentic AI services.

According to the press release , Capgemini—which will acquire each of WNS’s shares for $76.50—believes that WNS’s experience in the AI market will help address strategic opportunities driven by Agentic AI. Both companies aim to create an Intelligent Operations service, to support companies in their AI integration and transformation.

“Enterprises are rapidly adopting Generative AI and Agentic AI to transform their operations end-to-end,” said Aiman Ezzat, Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini. “Capgemini’s acquisition of WNS will provide the Group with the scale and vertical sector expertise to capture that rapidly emerging strategic opportunity created by the paradigm shift from traditional BPS to Agentic AI-powered Intelligent Operations.”

Capgemini expects to address the market’s need for generative AI and agentic AI-driven services and attract further investment.

“Organizations that have already digitized are now seeking to reimagine their operating models by embedding AI at the core—shifting from automation to autonomy,” said Keshav R. Murugesh, Chief Executive Officer of WNS. “By combining our deep domain and process expertise with Capgemini’s global reach, cutting-edge Gen AI and Agentic AI capabilities, a robust partner ecosystem, and advanced technology platforms, we are creating a powerful proposition that accelerates enterprise reinvention.”

Capgemini expects to close the deal—unanimously approved by both companies’ board of directors—by the end of the year.

Multiple companies specializing in data-driven AI have been making major moves in the industry to adapt and offer new services aligned with the growing demand for AI-driven solutions. The data labeling company Surge AI recently announced it aims to raise $1 billion in a funding round to capitalize on rising demand.