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BRUSSELS, Jan 27 (KUNA) -- The European Commission announced Tuesday the opening of two sets of specification proceedings to assist the US tech company Google in complying with its obligations under the Digital Markets Act, to provide rival AI services equal access to its features.
The Commission said in a statement that the first set of proceedings concerns Googleآ’s obligation to enable third-party developers to have free and effective access to interoperability with hardware and software features controlled by Googleآ’s Android operating system.
These proceedings focus on features used by Googleآ’s own artificial intelligence services, such as Gemini, as the Commission intends to specify how Google should grant third-party AI service providers equally effective and equivalent access to the same features available to its own services, in order to ensure equal opportunities for innovation and competition in the rapidly evolving AI market on smart mobile devices.
It added that the second set of proceedings concerns Googleآ’s obligation to grant third-party providers of online search engines access to anonymised ranking, query, click and view data held by Google Search, on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
The Commission explained that these proceedings focus on the scope of the data, the anonymisation method, and the conditions of access, in addition to the eligibility of AI based chatbot providers to benefit from this data, noting that effective compliance and access to a useful dataset will enable online search providers to improve their services and offer users genuine alternatives to Google Search. (end)
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