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EU Demands Open AI on Android by 2027, Apple Withholds Siri in EU
The European Commission has ordered Google to grant rival AI assistants substantially deeper access to Android by July 2027, while separately requiring the company to share anonymized Google Search...
EU Opens Android to Rival AI Assistants as Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro Stumbles
Google’s next flagship AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, has slipped from its original mid-2026 launch, while the European Commission unveiled detailed rules that will force Google to open Android’s AI...
Google Ordered to Open Android AI to Rivals by July 2027
The European Commission has ordered Google to tear down key barriers that give its Gemini AI an edge on Android phones, demanding the company open 11 operating-system features to competing AI...
Windows 11 Migrations Stealthily Swap Your Default Browser for Edge, Mozilla-Backed Study Shows
Moving your files and settings from an old Windows 10 PC to a new Windows 11 machine should preserve your choices — but a report released July 14 reveals that your default browser is often silently...
Microsoft Drops $2.5B on a 6,000-Person Army to Conquer Enterprise AI Deployment
Microsoft just declared war on sluggish enterprise AI adoption. On July 2, 2026, the company unveiled the Microsoft Frontier Company, a massive $2.5 billion initiative designed to embed 6,000...
Google’s €4.1 Billion EU Fine Upheld: A Stark Default Apps Warning for Windows
Google’s long legal battle against a €4.1 billion antitrust penalty came to a decisive end on July 2, 2026, when the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed the tech giant’s final...
Meta Plans AI Cloud Assault with GPU Rentals and Model Hosting, Challenging Microsoft Azure and AWS
Meta Platforms is quietly assembling the architecture for a full-blown AI cloud business that would sell outside customers access to its vast computing power and hosted large language models,...
EU Regulators Open Two Fronts Against Microsoft: Azure Faces DMA Gatekeeper Designation, Copilot Bundling Investigated
European regulators opened two new fronts against Microsoft in late June 2026, with Brussels and Rome launching separate investigations into the company’s cloud dominance and artificial...
As EU DMA Targets AWS and Azure, Alphabet’s Stock Teeters on 100-Day Moving Average
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) shares slipped in early Monday trading to hover just above the closely watched 100-day moving average, a level that has repeatedly acted as support in recent months, as...
Brussels Opens DMA Probes into AWS and Azure, Putting Cloud Gatekeeper Rules on the Fast Track for IT Teams
European Union regulators opened formal investigations into Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure on November 18, 2025, setting the stage for both hyperscalers to be designated as "gatekeepers"...
Microsoft to Lean on Outside Cloud Providers by June 2026 as AI Strains Azure Capacity, EU Eyes DMA Gatekeeper Rules
Microsoft’s aggressive AI expansion is pushing its Azure cloud infrastructure to the brink, forcing the company to plan for a reliance on third-party cloud providers by June 2026 to handle surging...
AWS and Azure Face EU Gatekeeper Scrutiny Under DMA Beyond Quantitative Thresholds
The European Commission has launched three separate market investigations into cloud computing under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), zeroing in on whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure...