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Google dodges second antitrust breakup attempt while AI Overviews expand automatically and Gemini stops citing sources

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Google avoided a second antitrust breakup order, AI Overviews expanded by default, and Gemini stopped citing sources, alongside AdSense and other platform changes.

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SERoundtable reports that Google successfully dodged an antitrust breakup over its ad tech monopoly for the second time, while AI Overviews expanded to show by default in search results. Separately, Gemini stopped citing its sources, and AdSense saw impression-tracking changes alongside other platform bugs affecting advertisers and publishers.

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