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EU regulation imposing interoperability, choice-screen, and anti-self-preferencing duties on gatekeeper platforms, enforced by the European Commission.
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OpenAI, Meta and Apple launched personal AI agents within four weeks of each other, priced from free to $500 a month. Identical developer token prices from Google and OpenAI support the view that daily habits now decide the contest, though the adoption data so far is thin.
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Amazon's new $60 Fire TV Stick 4K runs Vega OS, its own Linux-based system, and blocks sideloaded Android apps. Streaming app teams that reached Fire TV owners with Android builds now need a Vega OS version to reach buyers of the standard stick.
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Google has appealed an EU DMA order that would make it share search data with rivals from January 2027 and open Android to rival AI services. Its case rests on user privacy and Android security, claims the EU's top court now has to weigh against a competition order.
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Google has appealed EU orders that require it to share Search data with rival engines from January 2027 and open Android to competing AI assistants. Rival product teams now have to plan around a court fight over how much data and Android access they get.
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Google took the EU to the General Court over orders to share search data with rivals by January 2027 and open Android to rival AI services by July 2027. Rival search engines and AI developers counting on that data now face a court case over how much of it survives anonymisation.
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Google is contesting two July 16 EU orders that would give ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity Gemini's system-level access on about 60% of EU smartphones. The duty that matters most for voice, letting rival wake words run alongside Google's, is not due until August 2028.
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The Bundeskartellamt took binding commitments instead of a fine: neutral wording for third-party prompts, one dialog instead of two, across almost all of the EU. Re-model opt-in assumptions now.
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The Core Technology Fee's 50 cents per install becomes a 5 percent Core Technology Commission on October 1, and link-out commission drops to 15 percent.
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ChatGPT is the first AI assistant pulled into the Digital Services Act. It was filed as a search engine, which puts annual risk assessments, independent audits and researcher data access on OpenAI Ireland by the end of November.
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Opera asked judges in Luxembourg to force Microsoft Edge under the Digital Markets Act and lost, which tells platform teams that crossing the user thresholds only opens a market investigation the gateway argument can still close.
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The layout that went live on Tuesday gives price comparison sites three slots before any single hotel appears, and every measurement of what that does to bookings so far belongs to Google, which designed the page.
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The date is firm and the compatibility floor has not moved, so the September work is retiring Apple Watches and Intel Macs rather than testing iPhones, while Siri AI ships in beta behind a waiting list with no launch date.
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Apple's first foldable leads the Galaxy Z Fold8 by 102 Geekbench points and costs up to 1.6 million won more than Samsung's Ultra, a premium industry analysts attribute partly to memory supply disruption.
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Apple's new Siri needs a waitlist slot, an iPhone 15 Pro or newer and a country outside the EU, so a team supporting iOS 27 next week is supporting four populations on the same build number.
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The Commission adopted the proposal on September 18. Under-13s would be kept off social media, and 13- to 15-year-olds would only get parent-linked accounts carrying a 60-minute daily cap that platforms have to enforce.
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The 2TB iPhone 18 Pro Max lists at 3.99 million won in Seoul against 3.19 million a year ago, a 25 per cent increase on a phone whose Apple Intelligence features run only in English until a later update.
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Ternus told his first keynote as chief executive that the ideal AI device already exists. The hub Apple insiders expected instead has been waiting on an assistant Apple leases from Google and cannot yet sell in the EU.
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The Europe-only rollout puts a highlighted search-engine unit above a demoted travel carousel and takes real-time price details out of the result. Google says the quality loss is the largest in the product's 29 years.
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Siri AI shipped on 14 September as an opt-in beta in English on a short list of recent hardware. It does not run on iPhone, iPad or Watch in the EU, or anywhere in China, and Apple has set daily limits it has not published.
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iOS 27 installs on iPhones going back to the 2019 iPhone 11, Apple Intelligence needs 8GB of RAM, and two of the new Siri features need 12GB. A rollout plan now has three hardware tiers and a regional block on top.
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