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EU Orders Google to Open Android to AI Rivals

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Verge ·

The European Union has ordered Google to grant AI competitors greater access to Android, the world's most widely used mobile operating system. The demand targets Google's control over default AI assistants and data sharing on Android devices. Google has long resisted such access, but the EU sees it as necessary for fair competition.

Meridian48 take
While this looks like a blow to Google, the company may find ways to comply without meaningfully ceding control, as it has with past EU antitrust rulings.
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