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Google must let UK publishers opt-out of AI search in new rules

Britain has imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, including allowing publishers to stop their content being used to power the US tech giant’s AI features, as the...

When your AI confidante is also an advertising salesman

3 December 2025 | by Dr Sven Brodmerkel

Code discovered in OpenAI’s latest software build confirms what many feared: advertisements might be coming to ChatGPT. For millions of users who’ve grown accustomed to intimate, unfiltered conversations with...

Labor senators rejects 11th hour plea to delay social media ban

27 November 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

The Albanese government is resisting a Senate inquiry’s recommendation to delay the teen social media ban by six months to iron out compliance issues and educate young people on...

Google to pay $55m fine over secret ad deals with Telstra, Optus

18 August 2025 | by Justin Hendry

Google has agreed to cop a $55 million fine for reaching secret deals with Telstra and Optus to exclusively preinstall its search engine on Android devices sold by the...

UK may compel Google to change search rankings

24 June 2025 | by Paul Sandle

Britain’s competition regulator said it may force Google to rank businesses more fairly in search results and offer alternative services to consumers, marking the first use of expanded powers...

ACCC uncovers another secret Google search deal

13 August 2024 | by Justin Hendry

Australia’s competition watchdog has uncovered another secret deal for Google search engine exclusivity on Android devices, this time with the country’s third biggest telco TPG. TPG has agreed to...

ACCC uncovers Google’s secret ad deal with Telstra and Optus

2 July 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

The competition regulator has uncovered deals between Google and Australia’s biggest telcos that saw the tech giant’s search services preinstalled on mobile phones in exchange for a cut of...

ACCC probes AI impact on uncompetitive search market

18 March 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

Google’s dominance of internet search and the potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt or entrench it will go under the microscope in the competition watchdog’s second inquiry of the...

Search engines on notice as last online safety code arrives

12 March 2024 | by Brandon How

Search engines like Google and Bing will face penalties or injunctions for failing to take action against access to illegal and harmful content from Tuesday with the arrival of...

ACCC targeting Google’s $20b Apple search deal

28 October 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s competition regulator wants new powers to stop Google from being the default search service on nearly every phone and computer in the country, warning the tech giant’s 94...

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Google must let UK publishers opt-out of AI search in new rules

When your AI confidante is also an advertising salesman

Google to pay $55m fine over secret ad deals with Telstra, Optus

UK may compel Google to change search rankings

ACCC uncovers another secret Google search deal

ACCC uncovers Google’s secret ad deal with Telstra and Optus

ACCC probes AI impact on uncompetitive search market

Search engines on notice as last online safety code arrives

ACCC targeting Google’s $20b Apple search deal

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