The European Commission fined Alphabet €460 million on July 23, 2026, ruling under Article 6(5) of the Digital Markets Act that Google favored nine of its…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Class counsel in the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 2 · · Law & Money
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest on Sept. 1 in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, before Judge Sidney Stein…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 2 · · Law & Money
ChatGPT Ads reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in under 200 days after launch, per OpenAI.
Via OpenAI News ↗ · Aug 31 · · Engines, Law & Money
The European Commission said Monday it designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine (VLOSE) under the EU's Digital Services Act, alongside Reddit…
Via EU Commission Digital ↗ · Aug 31 · · Law & Money, Engines
Sony Music Publishing sued Anthropic in the Northern District of California on August 28, alleging direct copyright infringement via torrenting…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 29 · · Law & Money
Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, proceeding pro se in his copyright suit against Anthropic after opting out of the Bartz class settlement, has filed a covenant…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
Perplexity has raised a First Amendment defense in Reddit's DMCA suit against it and SerpApi, following the same move Anthropic made in the Gilbert…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
News/Media Alliance, the Association of American Publishers, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers filed a joint…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
SerpApi filed a motion on August 28 to dismiss Google's First Amended Complaint, per Chat GPT Is Eating the World.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic summary judgment on its First Amendment challenge to the U.S. Department of War's designation of the company as a "supply…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
The Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 27 · · Law & Money
Google Search Console carries a Search generative AI control under Settings that takes a site out of AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative features in…
Via Google Search Console Help ↗ · Aug 27 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta — who previously ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in search — said at a Tuesday hearing that Google's use of…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 26 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge denied Google's request for attorneys' fees after publishers Cengage and Hachette withdrew their motion to intervene in the multidistrict…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
Perplexity asked a court to dismiss Counts II through V of CNN's copyright complaint — everything except the claims tied to Perplexity's training-data…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
wikiHow filed a copyright suit against OpenAI, alleging infringement in both OpenAI's training inputs and its responses to user queries, plus vicarious…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
Anthropic has filed an amended Answer to the copyright complaint from Daniel Gilbert, author of "Hacking World of Warcraft," who opted out of the Bartz…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 20 · · Law & Money
The American Federation of Musicians has dropped its lawsuit against Warner Music Group, while its claims against Universal Music Group continue, per Chat…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 20 · · Law & Money
A First Amended Complaint in Shakespeare v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 19 · · Law & Money
OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads into 31 additional European markets on Aug. 19, including Germany, France, Spain and Italy, bringing the pilot to roughly 40…
Via OpenAI News ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Law & Money
The Publishers' Coordination Counsel has filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit challenging the denial of its attorneys' fee award in the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 19 · · Law & Money
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% from February through mid-August 2026, compared with the period when its free 12-month Pro offer via Airtel was…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Law & Money
OpenAI added Mexico and Brazil to ChatGPT Ads on August 17, its first Spanish- and Portuguese-language markets, bringing the total to nine countries, per…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Engines, Law & Money
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT ads to the European Economic Area and Switzerland later this month, limited to Free and Go plans with personalized targeting…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 16 · · Engines, Law & Money
Textbook author Michael Sullivan and other writers sued OpenAI for copyright infringement in the Southern District of New York on August 14, alleging…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 14 · · Law & Money
Anthropic began embedding invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and signed provenance metadata in generated files on August 2, 2026, to comply…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 11 · · Engines, Law & Money
The Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (APIG), representing nearly 300 French newspapers, filed a complaint with France's competition authority…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 11 · · Law & Money, Google Search, AEO
Google filed a First Amended Complaint against scraper SerpApi on August 11, adding new allegations to try to revive the DMCA anti-circumvention claim…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 11 · · Law & Money
Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute, and Asad Ramzanali, a former White House OSTP official, filed a 34-page amicus brief on August 4…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 8 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge overseeing the consolidated In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation denied the New York Times, Daily News, and Ziff Davis leave to…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 7 · · Law & Money
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity AI's agentic browser Comet from operating on Amazon.com…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 5 · · Law & Money
People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel told Digiday the publisher won't cut off Google's AI crawlers, saying doing so "would turn off search" and the company isn't…
Via Digiday Media ↗ · Aug 4 · · Law & Money, SEO
Reps. Laurel Lee (R-FL), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, H.R.
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Jul 23 · · Law & Money, Tools & Vendors
IAB Australia published version 1.0 of its Bots and Crawler Guidance and Decision Matrix on July 22, 2026, unveiling it at the Discovery: AI and Search…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Tools & Vendors, Law & Money
The UK Competition and Markets Authority imposed a Publisher Conduct Requirement on Google on June 3, 2026, under its digital markets regime — a legally…
Via UK CMA (Google-filtered) ↗ · Jul 29 · · Law & Money, Google Search, AEO
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told investors on the company's Q2 earnings call that Google's AI Overviews have "yet to make a similar level of positive impact"…
Via Ars Technica AI ↗ · Aug 1 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied Perplexity and SerpApi's motions to dismiss Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims, per Ars…
Via Ars Technica AI ↗ · Jul 31 · · Law & Money
A federal judge dismissed most of Google's DMCA anti-circumvention claims against scraper SerpApi, ruling that SearchGuard, Google's anti-bot system…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 28 · · Law & Money
Google's AI Overviews support documentation states that signed-in users' search interactions, alongside feedback and human review, are used to improve…
Via Google AI Overviews documentation ↗ · Jul 24 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
Alphabet reported Q2 Search revenue of $63.27 billion, up 17% year over year — the first deceleration after four quarters of accelerating growth, with…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 23 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A proposed class action alleges Google trained Gemini on copyrighted books without authorization, joining an unusually crowded month of AI-training…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 17 · · Law & Money
