Overview

• Google fined €250 million by French competition authority for failing to comply with commitments to French news outlets, marking the first fine on an AI company over training data.
• The fine addresses Google's use of news publishers' content to train its AI model Bard, now known as Gemini, without proper notification.
• Google has introduced a new control for publishers to opt out of having their data used for AI training, addressing one of the issues raised.
• The legality of using news articles for AI training under EU copyright law remains an open question, despite Google's claims of compliance.
• Apple may face a probe over a new fee structure that could affect third-party app stores' viability under the EU Digital Markets Act.