Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews

<figure> <img alt="An image of Google’s logo on a red, blue, and green background" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/02/STK093_GOOGLE_A.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and <em>Rolling Stone</em> parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-wins-dismissal-chegg-penske-media-lawsuits-over-ai-overviews-2026-10-01/?taid=6abe7325adc2d20001478a0c&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">as reported earlier by <em>Reuters</em></a>. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28712400-penske-and-chegg-v-google-dismissal/">in a ruling on Wednesday</a>, writing that PMC and Chegg's claims don't stand up to antitrust law.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">In <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/619051/chegg-google-ai-overviews-monopoly">lawsuits filed last year, Chegg</a> and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/777788/rolling-stone-penske-media-sue-google-ai-overviews">PMC accused Google</a> of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or risk disappearing from search results. The publishers alleged Google's practices diverted …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003589/google-ai-overviews-chegg-penske-lawsuits-dismissed">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>