Penske Media is suing Google over AI Overviews

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00:00Penske Media is suing Google over AI Overviews.

00:04Penske Media, the parent company of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, just threw

00:08down the gauntlet at Google and not with a snarky editorial, but with a full-blown lawsuit.

00:14The publisher claims Google's shiny new AI Overviews, those chatbot-style answers that

00:19sit atop search results, are killing its traffic.

00:22Why click on an article when Google already spoon-feeds you the gist?

00:26Penske argues that's essentially Google cashing in on its reporter's work without so much

00:30as a byline or assent.

00:32This isn't a lone wolf howl, though Penske is the first heavyweight US media house to

00:36sue.

00:37Chegg, the online tutoring company, filed a similar complaint back in February.

00:41A group of European publishers is already in court.

00:44The News Media Alliance calls Google's AI summaries the definition of theft and seeks

00:49DOJ support, while Google claims AI makes searching more useful.

00:54Publishers argue this reduces clicks and revenue.

00:57Penske reports that affiliate revenue has dropped over a third this year, blaming Google's

01:01AI.

01:02The company faces a dilemma.

01:04Blocking Google would make its content disappear online.

01:07But staying indexed feeds data to AI that's already siphoning its audience, resulting in

01:11losses either way.

01:13Legal pressure is mounting across the tech and AI sector.

01:16Perplexity faces lawsuits from Britannica and Merriam-Webster.

01:20News Corp is taking legal action.

01:22The New York Times is suing Microsoft and OpenAI.

01:25And Google warns that the open web is rapidly declining amid multiple antitrust challenges.

01:31Let's listen, it's pani BWS.

01:36And Google calls API.

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