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The Court of Justice of the EU dismissed Google and Alphabet’s appeal in Case C-738/22 P, confirming a €4.125B fine tied to Android pre-installation and anti-fragmentation practices.

The European Commission said it cannot currently propose a legal obligation requiring publishers to keep games playable after commercial support ends. It will instead engage consumers and publishers by the end of 2026 on end-of-life standards.

The EU has moved the heaviest high-risk AI Act obligations out of August 2026 and into two later dates: December 2, 2027 and August 2, 2028. The same package still tightens near-term bans and transparency deadlines around harmful generated content.

The European Commission said it cannot propose a legal obligation requiring games to remain playable after commercial support ends. Its next step is a 2026 industry and consumer discussion on a code of conduct for game end-of-life management.

OpenAI's new EU Cyber Action Plan grants vetted European cybersecurity teams access to GPT-5.5-Cyber, a defensive variant of its latest model tuned for vulnerability research and malware analysis. Anthropic continues to restrict its more powerful Mythos model over exploitation concerns.

EU Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the Digital Omnibus regulation on May 7, 2026, extending high-risk AI compliance deadlines by up to 24 months and adding a new prohibition on non-consensual sexual AI content.

President Trump issued a July 4 ultimatum for the EU to ratify the Turnberry trade agreement, threatening to raise tariffs to 'much higher' levels if Brussels misses the U.S. 250th birthday deadline. The EU Commission affirmed its commitment but acknowledged talks are incomplete. On the same day, a U.S. trade court ruled Trump's 10% global tariff unlawful — the second judicial rebuke of administration trade overreach this year.

Europe’s next platform fight is moving from app stores and browser defaults to AI and cloud. EU regulators say the Digital Markets Act will now focus more directly on those markets, while Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud businesses face new gatekeeper scrutiny.

Stop Killing Games reached a European Parliament hearing on Apr. 16, with organizers reporting positive responses from MEPs after presenting the case for future game-shutdown rules.

Stop Destroying Videogames has entered formal European Commission review with 1,294,188 verified signatures, setting up a European Parliament hearing and an official response due by 2026-07-27.

The European Commission on March 5, 2026 published a second draft code of practice for marking and labelling AI-generated content. The draft gives providers and deployers a clearer path toward Article 50 AI Act transparency requirements ahead of the August 2, 2026 applicability date.