BRUSSELS: Alphabet’s Google has challenged two European Union (EU) orders to help artificial intelligence (AI) rivals such as OpenAI access its services and search engine competitors to access its search data, saying these would undermine privacy safeguards and cause irreversible harm to European users.
EU antitrust regulators ordered the US tech giant in July to help online search rivals and AI developers use services available to its Gemini AI model under rules known as the Digital Markets Act – aimed at reining in Big Tech.
The challenges escalate a clash between Google and EU regulators over the scope of the Digital Markets Act, with the company arguing that compliance measures designed to open up competition would come at the cost of user privacy and security.
The changes will kick in next year. Google filed its challenges to the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe’s second-highest court, and in a statement said: “We’re appealing decisions that will force us to share people’s private search history.” — Reuters
