Landmark German ruling: Google is liable for false statements in its AI Overviews.

The Regional Court of Munich (case 26 O 869/26) issued a preliminary injunction treating AI Overviews as Google's own content after the feature falsely tied two publishers to scams, drawing connections that appeared in none of the linked sources. The court rejected "users should fact-check" and ruled the feature generates "independent, new, and substantive statements," so search-engine liability shields don't apply. It's a preliminary regional injunction, appealable and not binding precedent under German civil law. But if you ship generative search or summarization in the EU, this is the direction of travel: you own what your model asserts.