When Dependency Becomes Policy
Today’s episode starts with governments treating AI dependency as a policy object: search ranking rules, compute gaps, procurement choices, and summit politics all became part of the same operating problem for builders.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority moved further toward conduct requirements for Google Search and AI Overviews, putting ranking and self-preferencing directly into the AI search conversation.
The European Commission’s Digital Decade report framed Europe’s digital capacity gaps as an investment and dependency problem rather than only a competitiveness scorecard.
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