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Market news: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in Rome. He plans to meet with the Pope soon, followed by Italian Prime Minister Meloni.On December 9th, the European Commission announced an antitrust investigation into Google to assess whether its use of content from online publishers and YouTube for artificial intelligence-related purposes violates EU competition rules. The statement noted, "The investigation will focus on whether Google distorts competition and disadvantages competitors AI model developers by imposing unfair terms on publishers and content creators or by providing itself with privileged access to such content." The Commission expressed concern that Google may be using content from online publishers to generate its AI-driven services on search results pages without providing publishers with adequate compensation or the option to refuse such authorization. The Commission also expressed concern that Google is using content uploaded to YouTube to train its own generative AI models without compensation or the right of creators to refuse.Market news: European regulators will investigate whether Google (GOOG.O) has violated competition laws.On Tuesday, December 9, the Hang Seng Index closed down 331.13 points, or 1.29%, at 25,434.23; the Hang Seng Tech Index closed down 107.87 points, or 1.9%, at 5,554.68; the H-share Index closed down 147.12 points, or 1.62%, at 8,936.41; and the Red Chip Index closed down 87.79 points, or 2.08%, at 4,130.49.Hong Kong stocks closed down, with the Hang Seng Index down 1.29% and the Tech Index down 1.9%; Xinyi Glass (00868.HK) fell more than 8%, Hua Hong Semiconductor (01347.HK) fell 5.4%, and Pop Mart (09992.HK) fell 5%.
