ChatGPT chief: OpenAI would buy Google's Chrome browser

"Yes, we would, as would many other parties," Nick Turley, OpenAI's ChatGPT chief said in response to a question about whether the company would seek to buy Google's browser.

- Bloomberg

BRUSSELS: Apple was fined €500 million ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta €200 million, as European Union (EU) antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.

The EU fines could stoke tensions with US President Donald Trump who has threatened to levy tariffs against countries that penalise US companies.

They follow a year-long investigation by the European Commission, the EU executive, into whether the companies comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that seeks to allow smaller rivals into markets dominated by the biggest companies.

The fines signal that the EU is sticking to its guns in enforcing the new rules, which were introduced in 2023. That is despite Trump citing the DMA while vowing in February to "defend American companies and innovators from overseas extortion".

Alphabet's Google and Elon Musk's X are also facing potential fines from European regulators.