British regulators said they may force Google to open its search engine to more competition — raising concerns that its budding use of artificial intelligence poses increasing threats to rivals and ...

Google may have to change the way its search engine works in the UK, including potentially offering users the option to choose rival search services, as part of new regulation from the UK’s ...

UK antitrust regulator is investigating Google's 90% search market dominance, potentially reshaping how the company handles search rankings. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened an ...

Are you worried about online privacy? Not a fan of anticompetitive practices? Maybe you just want a new take on web search?

The Movement For An Open Web and other organizations filed a legal challenge against Google, alleging harm to UK news publishers. The crux of the legal filing is the allegation that Google’s AI ...

OpenAI has a strategic lead by making publisher agreements and releasing SearchGPT to a small group of users.

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Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.