Europe is turning up the heat on Big Tech, with the EU accusing Meta of breaching the Digital Services Act by building Facebook and Instagram around “addictive” defaults like autoplay, infinite scroll and relentless notifications, and pushing for those features to be off unless users opt in. The case, focused especially on risks to children and vulnerable users, could carry hefty fines if upheld. In Britain, regulators are also widening their lens, moving to place cloud giants such as Microsoft and Google under stricter oversight to protect the financial system from outages and cyber disruption. Meanwhile, a very different tech fight is unfolding in court: Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging former Apple employees helped transfer trade secrets tied to hardware development. Together, the day’s stories point to an industry under pressure not just for what it builds, but for how it competes and how deeply its systems shape everyday life.