Roger Penske (Penske Media Corporation. photo)

Google, the 900-pound gorilla online, is giving publishers heartburn — and Jay Penske, a St. Mary's Prep of Orchard Lake alum and son of local billionaire Roger Penske, is pushing back.

Penske, of Penske Media Corporation— which publishes Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, and other media outlets — has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google over the use of his content in AI Overviews. These are AI-generated summaries of search results that appear at the top of the page, Forbes reports. He is the first major publisher to date to sue Google.

Forbes reports:

The federal antitrust lawsuit accuses Google of abusing its dominance in search to force publishers into a lopsided deal: basically, Google requires media companies to either

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