The European Union's highest court has definitively ruled that Alphabet, Google's parent company, must pay a record €4.1 billion antitrust fine for using its Android operating system to block competitors.

The court fully rejected Google's appeal, confirming that the company unlawfully forced smartphone manufacturers to pre-install its services. Google expressed disagreement with the ruling, stating that it had already changed its agreements in 2018.

The defeat has already triggered a wave of commercial lawsuits in Europe, including a $1.5 billion claim from Swedish firm PriceRunner. It also paves the way for further penalties under the EU's Digital Markets Act, which prohibits tech giants from abusing their dominant positions.

Notably, in June, Google announced a sharp increase in AI spending to $180–190 billion this year due to surging demand for its Gemini Enterprise platform. As part of this strategy, the search giant struck a deal with SpaceX, committing to pay Elon Musk's company $920 million monthly starting in October for leasing 110,000 Nvidia processors for AI computations.

Source: podrobno.uz