Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) is facing growing pressure from the European Union to remove barriers for rival artificial intelligence search assistants on Android devices, a move that Alphabet believes could compromise user security and privacy, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

EU watchdogs will outline steps Alphabet must follow to grant rivals like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude access to the same features on Android as those available to Google's Gemini, according to the report.

This step comes under the EU's Digital Markets Act, which establishes rules for big tech firms, and has been criticized by President Donald Trump as unfairly targeting American companies, the report said.

Alphabet, OpenAI, and Anthropic didn't immediately respond to a request for comment by MT Newswires.

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