Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know Two binding decisions, adopted 16 July 2026. The European Commission closed its specification proceedings against Alphabet with orders covering AI-assistant interoperability on Android and Google Search data sharing. 11 Android features open up. The interoperability decision covers 11 operating-system features that the Commission groups into three building blocks: invocation, context, and actions on apps and the OS. Hard deadlines. Interoperability must ship in the next major Android release — Android 18 — and by 1 August 2027 at the latest. The search-data pricing offer is due by January 2027. UK is outside the DMA, but the CMA's DMCC regime has already designated Google's mobile platform and search business — a domestic parallel is under way. For assistant and…
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