A UK regulator has given Google until 3 December to share AI click data with publishers, so "Google won't tell you" now needs a caveat.

Under the UK Competition and Markets Authority's publisher conduct requirement, Google has until 3 December 2026 to comply, with three more months for a page-level control. PPA says Google must "share data such as clicks and referral traffic from AI features." SEJ, summarising the CMA, adds impressions, clicks and click-through rate across AI Overviews and AI Mode, split by publisher, with the first compliance report due 3 January 2027. Illyes's "nothing to announce yet" from yesterday stands. Nothing says any of this reaches sites outside the UK.

The Times filed in federal court in Manhattan (No. 1:26-CV-09549); the Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a parallel case. The complaints allege Brave scraped articles, sold index access to AI companies (heise names Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI, which are not defendants), helped users past paywalls and "does not identify its crawler or provide publishers a way to block" it. These are allegations. Brave gave no comment; it already faces a News Corp countersuit from July.

On desktop, searches for brands such as Apple, Zillow and Coca-Cola now show the AI Overview in the right-hand column, where the Knowledge Panel used to sit. Chris Long and David McSweeney flagged it on X. No Google comment, and it is unclear whether this is a test or a rollout.