arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/nobody-needs-ai-to-search-the-internet-court-says-in-ruling-against-google/
Summary: A German court has ruled that AI firms (Google in this case) can be held accountable for defamatory statements made by their AI (the overview in this case).
This goes against the normal protections given to search engines that are given because of the sheer size of information and links they have to deal with, because the judge ruled that AI is not a necessary function of search engines and thus is not given this protection.
This can have a huge impact on the use of AI overviews if the company can get sued anytime their AI says something defamatory. Googles response implies that Google is mostly looking to improve the accuracy of their AI's statement, for now.