By Sachiko Sakamaki (December 24, 2025, 07:26 (GMT) | Insight) — Japan's competition regulator will launch a new market investigation into generative artificial intelligence companies to examine the companies' role in the news content distribution market. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Anthropic and domestic tech company LY Corp. will be scrutinized for the practices they use when incorporating news content collected from media sites to display answers to user prompts and search queries. Japan's competition regulator is launching a new market investigation into generative artificial intelligence companies to examine the companies' role in the news content distribution market.
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