Brazil escalates antitrust probe into Google AI search

- Brazil’s competition authority voted unanimously to escalate a six‑year probe into Google, opening a formal administrative process that explicitly brings AI search’s use of news content into scope. - The vote moves the case from review to formal adjudication, meaning regulators will examine provenance, publisher rights, attribution and policy controls in AI‑powered search, including how summaries and caches use news articles. - Regulators are widening their focus from search links to AI answers, raising provenance, auditability and publisher‑rights issues for search system designs. (riotimesonline.com)