India, July 16 -- The European Commission has ordered Alphabet's (GOOG) Google to give artificial intelligence developers and search competitors greater access to Android features and Google Search data as part of its efforts to enforce the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Under the new requirements, Google must open 11 Android features to rival AI assistants, allowing them to access key system functions and respond to voice commands in a similar way to Google's Gemini assistant.
The changes are expected to be available with the next major version of Android from July 2027, provided third-party developers meet the EU's security and privacy requirements.
The Commission also directed Google to share anonymized search data that it uses to improve...