EU Orders Google to Open Android and Search to Rival AI Services Under the Digital Markets Act

The European Commission has told Google to give competing AI providers—including OpenAI and Anthropic—the same access to Android's core features that its own Gemini assistant enjoys, escalating Brussels' enforcement of the Digital Markets Act into the fast-growing market for mobile AI. In preliminary findings and draft measures published on April 27, 2026, the Commission set out how the company must let third-party AI services plug into Android hardware and software on equal footing with Gemini.