European Commission Issues DMA Guidance to Google on AI Interoperability and Search Data Sharing

The European Commission issued formal guidance to Google on 16 July 2026 addressing AI interoperability obligations on Android and the sharing of Google Search data with rivals under the Digital Markets Act. The guidance clarifies how Google must enable competing AI assistants and services to interoperate with Android, and how it must share specified Search data with qualifying third parties, ahead of further Commission assessment of compliance.

• Clarifies Google's DMA obligations to enable AI interoperability on the Android operating system
• Sets expectations for Google to share defined categories of Search data with qualifying third parties
• Issued as regulatory guidance rather than a formal non-compliance or fining decision
• Follows shortly before the Commission's EUR 890 million DMA fine against Google a week later