UK Regulator Orders Google to Give Publishers AI Opt-Out Controls

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is requiring Google to allow publishers to opt out of having their content used in AI Overviews or for training standalone AI models. Google has introduced Google-Extended, a robots.txt mechanism that lets websites exclude their content from Gemini training. The regulatory move targets control granularity across both real-time AI summaries and model training datasets—a precedent likely to influence other jurisdictions' AI governance frameworks.