European regulators crack down on Big Tech

Here are some of ‍the actions taken:

Alphabet

The European Commission said on December 9 it had opened an antitrust probe to assess whether Alphabet’s Google was breaching EU competition rules in its use ⁠of online content from web publishers and YouTube for artificial intelligence purposes. The Commission hit Google with a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.46 billion) antitrust fine on September 5 for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative adtech business. In…