{"id":1004883,"date":"2026-04-25T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004883"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:39:39","slug":"eu-pressures-google-to-open-android-to-rival-ai-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/eu-pressures-google-to-open-android-to-rival-ai-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"EU pressures Google to open Android to rival AI assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google faces ramped up European Union pressure to lift barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android handsets in an escalation that the US giant fears could compromise users&#8217; security and privacy. <\/p>\n<p>EU watchdogs are poised to lay out what the Alphabet unit must do to grant the likes of ChatGPT and Anthropic PBC&#8217;s Claude access to the same features on Android as those available to Google&#8217;s own Gemini, according to people familiar with the matter. The people added that the findings were still in draft form and timing could yet slip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google faces ramped up European Union pressure to lift barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android handsets in an escalation that the US giant fears could compromise users&#8217; security and privacy. EU watchdogs are poised to lay out what the Alphabet unit must do to grant the likes of ChatGPT and Anthropic PBC&#8217;s Claude access to the same features on Android as those available to Google&#8217;s own Gemini, according to people familiar with the matter. The people added that the findings were still in draft form and timing could yet slip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004886,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004883\/revisions\/1004886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}