EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
Spelled out in big colorful letters that even Google can understand, the EU is now requiring the Chocolate Factory to share search data with competitors while enhancing Android AI interoperability for bots other than Gemini.
Needless to say, the company would like to find a way to disable this default.
The European Commission (EC) announced a pair of specification decisions on Thursday. The first covers AI vendors' ability to integrate into Google's mobile OS, and the other forces Google to give search data to other search engines in order to “rebalance the playing field," as the EC put it.
The specification proceeding, the Commission said, isn’t a noncompliance decision and doesn’t attempt to determine whether Google has been flouting its obligations as a Digital Markets Act gatekeeper (i.e., it’s big enough that it controls access to markets for smaller firms). It only wanted to make sure both parties were clear...
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