Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK
Summary
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has ruled that Google must allow website publishers to opt out of AI Search features, including AI Overviews (summaries generated by AI) and prevent their content from being used to train Google's AI models. This new rule gives publishers, especially news organizations, more control over how their content is used by AI systems.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/942302/google-search-ai-overviews-uk-cma-publisher-opt-out
First tracked: June 3, 2026 at 08:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%