LONDON (AP) — Google faces fresh antitrust scrutiny from European Union regulators, who opened an investigation Tuesday into the company's use of online content for its artificial intelligence models and services.

The European Commission, which is the 27-nation bloc's top antitrust enforcer, said it's examining whether Google has breached competition rules through its use of content from web publishers as well as material uploaded to YouTube for AI purposes.

Regulators are concerned that Google has given itself an unfair advantage by using content for two search services, AI Overviews and AI Mode, without paying publishers or letting them opt out. AI Overviews automatically generates summaries that appear at the top of its traditional search results, while AI Mode provides chatbot-st

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