Brussels Edition

After Musk’s X, Google Becomes Latest Target of EU Tech Oversight

The bloc is demanding the tech giant lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android.
The Google House pavilion ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in DavosPhotographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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A day after the EU opened a probe into Elon Musk’s X, another US tech giant is in Brussels’s sights.

The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, has given Google a six-month deadline to comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a key plank of the EU’s tech regulation regime.