PolicyJun 5, 2026
UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews
The UK’s competition regulator will require Google to let publishers exclude their content from AI-generated search summaries without losing normal search visibility. It’s one of the first concrete remedies aimed at AI’s impact on the open web.
Why it matters: AI summaries are siphoning traffic from the very sites they’re built on — and this is an early model for how regulators might push back.