"The European Commission has fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry. It did so by favoring its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of competing providers of advertising technology services, advertisers and online publishers,"
"But observers said that IT leaders should look at the decision as a warning about a potential wave of global regulatory decisions on tech issues. For example, Friday also saw a major genAI player settling a case involving piracy of AI model training data. Anthropic on Friday told federal court officials that it had settled its genAI copyright lawsuit for $1.5 billion, a settlement possible because a federal judge last month dismissed other copyright claims."
The European Commission fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the advertising technology industry and ordered an end to self-preferencing practices. The Commission directed Google to implement measures to cease inherent conflicts of interest along the adtech supply chain. A separate major genAI matter saw Anthropic settle a copyright lawsuit for $1.5 billion after a federal judge dismissed other claims. Observers view the fine as a broader signal that technology monopolies across adtech, AI, quantum computing, and open source will face increased regulatory scrutiny. The ruling keeps the door open to further actions and could have substantial enterprise IT implications globally.
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