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EU Orders Google to Open Android AI; Apple Refuses Siri

7/19/2026

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EU Orders Google

EU Commission, under the Digital Markets Act, ordered Google to allow rival AI assistants on Android by July 2027 and to share its search data with other engines and chatbots from January.
Apple says it will not launch Siri in the EU because the rules require private-data access.
The rules affect about 427 million devices and could let ChatGPT, on roughly 30 % of EU phones, bypass Android for tasks like booking rides.

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EU Limits Google

The European Commission mandated an anonymisation scheme that removes 90-100 % of unique queries and bars AI chatbots from training general-purpose models.
Non-compliance could trigger fines of up to 10 % of Google’s annual worldwide revenue.
Google president Kent Walker warned that system-level permissions for third-party assistants could bypass phone-maker safeguards and expose Europeans’ private queries.
Google can appeal and the Commission may revise the anonymisation rules after independent testing finds gaps.

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EU Orders Google

EU Commission, under the Digital Markets Act, ordered Google to allow rival AI assistants on Android by July 2027 and to share its search data with other engines and chatbots from January.
Apple says it will not launch Siri in the EU because the rules require private-data access.
The rules affect about 427 million devices and could let ChatGPT, on roughly 30 % of EU phones, bypass Android for tasks like booking rides.

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