US federal judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit by Chegg and Penske against Google's AI search

US federal judge Amit Mehta dismissed the antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media against Google, ruling that Google's conduct in products such as AI Overviews does not violate antitrust law. Chegg claimed Google scraped its educational content for reuse by the Gemini model and diverted traffic, and Penske accused that indexed websites could not opt out of content scraping for AI answers. The judge wrote that websites' expectations of search traffic do not constitute an agreement, and this is merely how search engines operate.