A Munich regional court rules that Google can be held directly liable for false statements produced in its AI Overviews feature used in Google Search. The decision is reported to involve AI Overviews that allegedly connected two publishers to scams and other questionable business practices without support from the underlying sources. According to coverage of the ruling, the court finds that the AI system generates “independent, new, and substantive” statements by rewriting and structuring information rather than merely linking to third-party webpages. It rejects Google’s argument that users can verify claims themselves by checking cited sources, and it characterizes the problematic assertions as statements created by Google’s AI offering. The court also addresses prior German legal reasoning under which traditional search engines and autocomplete services had limited liability as indirect infringers. In this case, the court says that those arguments do not apply because AI Overviews do more than point users to external content—they produce summaries in their own wording. Google can appeal, and the ruling adds to ongoing legal debate over responsibility for AI-generated search summaries and the extent to which operators must ensure the accuracy of AI outputs.