Telecom Intelligence: Week of March 4, 2024 Europe drew first blood in its year of platform enforcement: the European Commission fined Apple more than €1.8 billion for suppressing music-streaming rivals — the company's first EU antitrust penalty — three days before the Digital Markets Act's compliance deadline forced open the iPhone's walled garden across the bloc. Anthropic escalated the frontier-model race with Claude 3, claiming benchmark parity with GPT-4. And on Super Tuesday of all days, Meta's platforms went dark worldwide for hours — logging out Facebook's billions and reminding everyone how much civic infrastructure now runs on one company's login system.