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EU forces Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI assistants: The European Commission today ordered Meta to restore free API access to WhatsApp for rival AI assistants, citing serious risk to competition in the AI market. https://ppc.land/eu-forces-meta-to-reopen-whatsapp-to-rival-ai-assistants/ #EU #Meta #WhatsApp #AI #Competition

EU forces Meta to reopen WhatsApp to rival AI assistants

The European Commission today ordered Meta to restore free API access to WhatsApp for rival AI assistants, citing serious risk to competition in the AI market.

PPC Land

Jan Penfrat 3h ago

Jan Penfrat, a senior policy adviser for European Digital Rights @edri, a network of NGOs, experts, and advocates campaigning for #DigitalRights across Europe, sees #Apple’s latest moves as a means of putting pressure on the @EUCommission to allow it to break the #DMA. “It’s very much a #lobbying tactic,” he said. “The problem is not the DMA but Apple refusing to open up its #competition-busting software ecosystem.”

We've seen this playbook before.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/947051/apple-europe-dma-siri-ai

Apple wants Europe to blink

Apple blames DMA for delaying Siri AI in Europe. The EU says nothing is stopping Apple from launching it.

The Verge

CBC Thunder Bay 3h ago

St. Ignatius Falcons fly high in national cheerleading competition
St. Ignatius Falcons Competitive Cheerleading in Thunder Bay, Ont., is celebrating its gold win at this year's national competition. The CBC's Mary-Jean Cormier visited the high school to check out the athletic prowess and pompoms that put them on top.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7229038?cmp=rss

CBC World 13h ago

World Cup primer: Favourites, darkhorses and other stuff to know
CBC Sports' daily newsletter previews the 2026 World Cup, where defending champion Argentina and co-host Canada are among the 48 nations competing in soccer's biggest event.
#Sports
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/the-buzzer-newsletter-world-cup-2026-primer-9.7229172?cmp=rss

Marcus Schuler 15h ago

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 publicly while restricting its less-guarded variant to vetted users. The move follows the company's refusal to strip safeguards for Pentagon contracts. This two-tier approach may reshape how AI companies balance capability, safety, and competitive positioning. https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-turns-restraint-into-a-weapon/ #AI #Policy #Competition

Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Restricts Mythos 5

Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, then kept the unrestricted version for a chosen few. Days earlier it had refused the Pentagon's demand to strip its safeguards and lost the contract to OpenAI. So why does it look like the company setting the entire industry's pace?

Implicator.ai

Tennis 20h ago

Mirra Andreeva wins French Open to claim first Grand Slam title

Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was already a tennis phenom at age 15.At 19, she is a Grand Slam…
#tennis #MirraAndreeva #AlexanderZverev #athlete #competition #eighth-rankedandreeva #finalsunday #firstgrandslamtitle #FlavioCobolli #FrenchOpen #GrandSlam #MajaChwalińska #man #recentmemory #RolandGarros #roland-garrofinalsaturday #roland-garrostitle #Russia #singletitle #sknd #teenager #Tennis #wildgrandslam #woman #youngplayer
https://www.europesays.com/tennis/16769/

Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)20h ago

EU orders Meta to reopen WhatsApp to AI rivals for free https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-orders-meta-to-reopen-whatsapp-to-ai-rivals-for-free/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #CompetitionandIndustrialPolicy #ArtificialIntelligence #Interimmeasures #DigitalMarkets #EUcompetition #Intelligence #Competition #Technology #Antitrust #Platforms #Services #digital #Markets

EU orders Meta to reopen WhatsApp to AI rivals for free

It’s only the second time that the Commission has used this emergency power in two decades.

POLITICO

Marcus Schuler 20h ago

A free speech-to-text app from a Berlin developer now out-performs an $81M dictation leader. The reason: speech models became commodities. This suggests owning the AI model matters less than controlling the interface users trust. Watch where control actually shifts. https://www.implicator.ai/apple-rented-its-ai-mind-from-google-to-fix-siri/ #AI #OpenSource #Competition

Apple Runs Siri on Google's Gemini; Berlin App Beats Wispr

Apple's rebuilt Siri runs on Google's Gemini, testing its privacy pitch. Plus a free Berlin app out-engineers the $81M dictation leader.

Implicator.ai

Guillaume Joubert 23h ago

Retour sur le Championnat de France de Longe-côte 2026

Du 5 au 7 juin, la plage de La Baule en Loire Atlantique a accueilli la 11ème édition du Championnat de France, co-organisé par la FFRandonnée, ses comités régionaux et départementaux Pays de La Loire et Loire-Atlantique et le club Longe côte club de France.

L’événement a réuni plus de 500 athlètes venus de toute la France (Normandie, Hauts-de-France, Bretagne, Pays-de-la-Loire, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, PACA, Guadeloupe et Martinique) pour deux jours de compétition.

Le vendredi 5 juin, 107 collégiens, de la 6ème à la 3ème ont participé à un trail longe côte, une blle manière de débuter les festivités et d’initier les jeunes au longe côte.

Dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, la météo capricieuse a changé la donne pour reporter les épreuves du 800m, du 200m, du 50m pagaie simple et du 400m binôme (prévues le samedi) au dimanche matin, et de lancer l’épreuve du trail longe côte (prévue le dimanche) à 15h le samedi.

Le dimanche matin, avec un temps plus clément et après un échauffement collectif, les compétiteurs et les compétitrices se sont lancés dans un océan Atlantique encore agité pour enchaîner les épreuves du 800m mains nues, du 200m mains nues, du 50m pagaie simple et du 400m binômes.

Tous les résultats sont à retrouver sur ce lien,, voir aussi la page Facebook FFRandonnée Longe Côte Compétition pour résultats et de nombreuses photos.

#championnatDeFranceDeLongeCote2026 #Classements #Compétition #FFRandonnée #longeCote #marcheAquatique #Résultats

Tennis 1d ago

Mirra Andreeva wins French Open to claim first Grand Slam title