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Brazil Antitrust Reopens Google AI News Probe

4/24/2026

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  • Brazil’s antitrust agency CADE approved a recommendation to reopen its probe into Google’s use of journalistic material.
  • Interim chief Diogo Thomson de Andrade said the AI-generated search results could let Google profit from news content without fair compensation.
  • The investigation, launched in 2019, originally targeted Google’s automated collection and display of news articles in search results.
  • Google has not responded to requests for comment on the renewed proceedings.