Digital Markets Act

The European Commission is finalizing a high triple-digit million euro fine — the largest ever under the Digital Markets Act — against Google for promoting its own Shopping, Flights, and Hotels services in search results.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on April 30 demanding the Commission use every enforcement tool against DMA-violating gatekeepers, as US tariff threats and visa sanctions aimed at EU officials escalate the transatlantic tech regulation conflict.

Brussels' first review of the Digital Markets Act concludes the law needs no overhaul, declines to designate generative AI as a new core platform service, and shifts focus toward cloud gatekeeper probes and a Google Android AI specification.

The European Commission must deliver its first mandatory review of the Digital Markets Act by May 3, weighing calls to expand the law into AI and cloud services while fending off Trump administration tariff threats over $7 billion in cumulative tech fines.

Teresa Ribera signals the EU will examine every layer of AI infrastructure for competition distortions, from chips to cloud to models.

All six DMA gatekeepers filed annual compliance reports on March 9 as the Commission prepares its first formal review of the regulation, with AI designation and transatlantic tensions at stake.