India, March 20 -- French Competition Authority, The Autorite de la concurrence, said it has fined Alphabet Inc. and Google LLC 250 million euros for non-compliance with some of its commitments with news publishers.
The fine is related to breaches linked to EU intellectual property rules. It was reported that Google failed to keep its commitments to negotiate deals with media publishers in good faith, and it also trained generative AI chatbot Bard on press content without notifying the publishers or the authority.
In a statement, the agency said Alphabet and its affiliates Google, Google Ireland Ltd and Google France failed to comply with some of its commitments made earlier.
This is the fourth decision issued by the authority in this ca...