Antitrust Unbundles the AI Distribution Moat
Regulators increasingly treat incumbents' proprietary user data and default placement, not model quality, as the competitive bottleneck in AI, and will keep forcing access to both, shifting value from model builders toward whoever controls distribution.
forming · confidence 40 · Emerging (watchlist) · tracking since July 18, 2026 · updated July 18, 2026
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The EU ordered Google to share anonymized search query, click and ranking data with AI rivals on fair terms from January 2027, and to open eleven Gemini-only Android features to competing assistants from mid-2027, forcing access to exactly the proprietary data and default placement this thesis names as the real bottleneck.
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Supporting · July 18, 2026
EU Orders Google to Share Search Data With AI Rivals and Open Android Assistant Slots
The EU ordered Google to share anonymized search query, click and ranking data with AI rivals on fair terms from January 2027, and to open eleven Gemini-only Android features to competing assistants from mid-2027, forcing access to exactly the proprietary data and default placement this thesis names as the real bottleneck.
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