EU antitrust chief meets Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon CEOs amidst AI scrutiny


FILE PHOTO: European Commission Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition Teresa Ribera speaks at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium June 2, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

BRUSSELS, March 24 (Reuters) - EU antitrust chief Teresa ⁠Ribera, who has voiced concerns about Big ‌Tech extending its dominance into artificial intelligence, will meet the CEOs of Alphabet, Meta Platforms and OpenAI on Tuesday, ​a European Commission agenda item ⁠shows.

The first-time meetings ⁠with Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman in ⁠San ‌Francisco will take place as part of Ribera's week-long trip to the ⁠United States where she is scheduled to ​speak at ‌an American Bar Association conference on Friday.

She ⁠will also ​meet Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Wednesday.

Ribera, who has launched several investigations into Google and Meta's ⁠business practices, this month said she ​was examining the entire AI stack, including AI chatbots, the data used to train them and ⁠the cloud computing infrastructure.

The European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, has said risks are emerging as dominant companies favour their ​AI services on their own ⁠platforms to exclude rivals.

Technology giants, including OpenAI, Nvidia, ​Meta and Google have been ‌investing billions on AI infrastructure ​to cater for booming demand.

(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; editing by Barbara Lewis)

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