A U.S. federal court has dismissed two antitrust lawsuits against Google related to its use of artificial intelligence in search. Education platform Chegg and media group Penske Media have accused Google’s AI Overviews of reducing user traffic to websites and allowing search engines to receive content from publishers without paying.
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The court ruled that the accusation of abusing market dominance through the introduction of artificial intelligence review functions was inconsistent with U.S. antitrust laws. Judge Amit Mehta, who previously issued a landmark ruling against Google in 2024, found no guilt. He pointed out that exchanging traffic for free content is not a legal agreement, but merely reflects the standard operating principles of search engines.
Mehta added that the court is sympathetic to publishers’ difficult situation, but that antitrust law cannot replace legislative efforts to regulate the economic consequences of innovation. According to news edgethe lawsuit was heard in U.S. federal court on Wednesday.
It was previously reported that amid the continued decline in news resource traffic, Google launched a pilot program to pay publishers for the use of their materials in AI Comments, AI Mode and Gemini, but most participants actually received only a few cents.
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