{"id":18911,"date":"2026-04-27T19:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/18911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:48:28","slug":"eu-tells-google-to-open-android-to-ai-rivals-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/18911\/","title":{"rendered":"EU tells Google to open Android to AI rivals | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU on Monday laid out measures it wants Google to take to open up its operating system to rival AI services, in a move slammed by the US tech giant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The proposed measures aim to ensure that competing AI services can effectively interact with applications on users&#8217; Android devices and execute tasks accordingly, such as sending an email using the user&#8217;s preferred email app, ordering food or sharing a photo with friends,&#8221; the European Commission said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the EU&#8217;s flagship Digital Markets Act (DMA), the world&#8217;s biggest tech companies must open up to competition to give consumers more options and limit abuses linked to market dominance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump&#8217;s government has railed against the law and its sister content moderation law the Digital Services Act, accusing Brussels of unfairly targeting US firms.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels said that the proposals for Google &#8220;will provide Android users across the EU with a wider choice of AI services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Google hit back, saying that the &#8220;unwarranted intervention&#8221; risks &#8220;unnecessarily driving up costs while undermining critical privacy and security protections for European users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazard-herald.com\/news\/national\/us-supreme-court-hears-privacy-case-involving-smartphone-location-data\/article_8d03dd12-cb6b-5201-a3a9-8bd7c10a2e0a.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"US Supreme Court hears privacy case involving smartphone location data\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"US Supreme Court hears privacy case involving smartphone location data\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hazard-herald.com\/news\/national\/maine-governor-nixes-data-center-moratorium-in-state\/article_9e141182-8934-59be-b083-4aeccb5c6db8.html\" class=\"tnt-asset-link\" aria-label=\"Maine governor nixes data center moratorium in state\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Maine governor nixes data center moratorium in state\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" data- data-\/><br \/>\n                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest step by the EU represents part of its preliminary conclusions from a process launched in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The procedure involving Google is not a formal investigation that could lead to fines.<\/p>\n<p>But if Brussels is not satisfied with Google&#8217;s efforts, it can later conclude the company is not complying.<\/p>\n<p>And any DMA violations can lead to fines of\u00a0up to 10 percent of a company&#8217;s total global turnover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google is already the subject of several formal DMA probes, and was hit with a massive 2.95 billion euro fine in September 2025 in an EU competition case predating the digital law.<\/p>\n<p>fpo-del\/rl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU on Monday laid out measures it wants Google to take to open up its operating system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5908,24,11564,6694,13512,13581,132,1429,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-18911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-android-operating-system","11":"tag-cyberspace","12":"tag-digital-markets-act","13":"tag-digital-services-act","14":"tag-google","15":"tag-google-ai","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}