Brazil's antitrust supervisory authority CADE approved a proposal on Thursday to further investigate the use of news content by Alphabet's Google to assess the possibility that the company is abusing its dominant position in the market. CADE members supported the recommendation of its interim head, Diogo Thomson de Andrade, to return the case to its director for formal administrative litigation on the grounds that Google's behavior had changed since the investigation began in 2019. According to De Andrade's new analysis, Google's behavior evolved with the development of artificial intelligence generation functions, which can directly synthesize information in the search interface. It highlights the potential structural reliance of news publishers on Google's search mechanism to reach their audiences. De Andrade pointed out that this may constitute exploitative abuse, that is, obtaining value from third party content without corresponding compensation.

Brazil's antitrust supervisory authority CADE approved a proposal on Thursday to further investigate the use of news content by Alphabet's Google to assess the possibility that the company is abusing its dominant position in the market. CADE members supported the recommendation of its interim head, Diogo Thomson de Andrade, to return the case to its director for formal administrative litigation on the grounds that Google's behavior had changed since the investigation began in 2019. According to De Andrade's new analysis, Google's behavior evolved with the development of artificial intelligence generation functions, which can directly synthesize information in the search interface. It highlights the potential structural reliance of news publishers on Google's search mechanism to reach their audiences. De Andrade pointed out that this may constitute exploitative abuse, that is, obtaining value from third party content without corresponding compensation.