Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)

Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit against Google. They allege that Google utilized millions of copyrighted books and articles without permission to develop its Gemini artificial intelligence models. The publishers claim the tech giant's AI models were built using their intellectual property.