European Commission investigates Google’s AI training processes

By Maxwell Cooter for Computerworld
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

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It’s barely three months since the Commission concluded another antitrust investigation of the company’s activities, fining Google €2.95 billion (about $3.5 billion) for abusive practices in its advertising technology business, the latest of the company’s brushes with regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb and a member of the Europol Data Protection Experts Network (EDEN), said that the Commission’s decision to open an investigation is another example of the escalating tension between the US and Europe in the digital space. “While the question of where Google takes the data for AI training and whether this process is lawful is extremely important for both the EU and US, the current American policy on AI is quite libertarian and pro-innovation amid the global race for AI supremacy. Therefore, any further regulatory probes against American companies in Europe, however justified they might be under the enacted law, will quite unlikely get any support from the US, to put it mildly.” Read Full Article