#competitionsandmarketsauthoritycma — Public Fediverse posts

Engadget: UK competition watchdog wants to give Android and Chrome users more search engine choices . “The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is trying to introduce more search choices where Google has the tightest control: Android smartphones and the Chrome browser. The regulator has proposed allowing users to choose their preferred search provider on those platforms so Google’s […]

The Register: Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious. “The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed two new conduct requirements for Google’s search services, to improve transparency and fairness in result rankings and allowing users to port their search data to third parties.”

Ars Technica: Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out. “UK regulators today ordered Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search.”

Press Gazette: UK publishers urge CMA to curb Google as search giant claims AI does them no harm. “News publishers have disputed a claim from Google that using their content to ‘fine-tune’ its AI models contains ‘no realistic prospect of harm’ to them. ‘Fine-tuning’ enables an AI model that has already been trained to add new data to respond to a specific prompt or task.”

Mashable: Apple, Google agree to ‘improve fairness’ on app stores. “According to the CMA [Competition and Markets Authority], Apple and Google have agreed to make sure their app review processes for Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store do not discriminate against mobile applications that compete with their own apps.”