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UPDATE 🇪🇺 We passed 10,000 signatures! EU users want Siri AI too. Thanks to everyone who signed and shared. Let’s keep going! siri4eu.com #Siri4EU
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The Antitrust Division issued the following statement today in connection with the closing of the Division’s investigation of the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros.: justice.gov/opa/pr/statement…
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L’alibi di Apple. Il ritardato approdo di Siri con AI in Europa è colpa delle istituzioni. E gli utenti si schierano dalla sua parte startupitalia.eu/tech/le-cur…

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Apple's Siri EU Drama, Debunked youtube.com/shorts/FtaMqcmyw…
🚫 Siri AI en 2026… sauf pour l’Europe. Pendant que le reste du monde profitera du nouveau Siri, les utilisateurs européens devront attendre. Si vous voulez faire entendre votre voix, signez la pétition sur siri4eu.com 📣 Partagez-la autour de vous. Plus nous serons nombreux, plus il sera difficile d’ignorer les utilisateurs européens ! #SiriAI #AppleIntelligence @ferrantelorenzo
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Apple's Siri EU Drama, Debunked youtube.com/shorts/FtaMqcmyw…
Siri AI bloqué dans l'UE : Greg Joswiak dénonce les exigences du DMA sur l'accès aux données personnelles. Apple refuse de sacrifier la confidentialité des utilisateurs et espère un compromis, malgré une impasse frustrante.
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Apple's Siri EU Drama, Debunked youtube.com/shorts/FtaMqcmyw…
Siri AI ne sera pas disponible en France sur iPhone cet automne. 🤔 Apple a proposé un déploiement progressif. 18 mois. Avec un système sécurisé. L'UE a tout refusé. Résultat : vous payez le même prix qu'un Américain. Pour un iPhone avec une IA bridée. Deuxième fois en deux ans. C'est Apple qui joue mal, ou l'UE qui protège mal ? #Siri #DMA #Apple #iOS27 #WWDC2026
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Signez la pétition ! Montrons à l'Europe que nous ne sommes pas d'accord ! siri4eu.com/
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Apple just announced the new Siri AI features are coming, but not to EU iPhone users. That shouldn’t be the outcome. I vibe-coded a website to gather signatures for EU iPhone users who want access to the new Siri AI features. Sign the petition: siri4eu.com
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Simonetta Vezzoso retweeted
Apple decided not to roll out SIRI AI in the EU. The non-interoperability of their design made the update not suitable for the EU market. Why? Because big tech companies cannot decide which EU tool should be used by EU citizens. Learn more👇 📺youtube.com/shorts/ATg_W0N3K…
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Apple proposed solutions including a "Trusted System Agent" and an 18-month rollout to enable Siri AI in the EU while complying with DMA, which regulators rejected. apple.com/newsroom/2026/…
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The true legacy of "Trump Era Antitrust"? National security considerations in competition enforcement oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en…

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Is the DMA launch-ready 😉?
Sources: Google is in talks with SpaceX and other companies for a rocket launch deal, as Google expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Perspective of antitrust lawyers...
180,000 of you now. I satirize from the perspective of insiders who will never say these things out loud. Pentagon auditors. Hedge fund compliance officers. Health insurance denial architects. Congressional ethics staffers. Oil traders with 21-minute windows. HR directors who renamed layoffs. Surveillance vendors. Opioid settlement lawyers. Deportation logistics coordinators. AI safety researchers who watched the guardrails come off. To every subscriber who reads the quiet parts with me. To everyone who's left a comment, shared a post, or tagged someone with "this is literally my industry." You're the reason this work reaches the people it's about. I write confessions. You make them travel. The community interaction is genuinely the best part of this — not the numbers, but the replies where someone says "I thought I was the only one who noticed this." You weren't. You just didn't have a narrator yet. Thank you. The work continues because you keep showing up for it.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic:
Terrific piece by @MarkRuffalo and @matthewstoller explaining how extreme market concentration breeds fear and silence, and how the growing effort to stop the Paramount merger exemplifies courage, solidarity, and the importance of pushing back. nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opini…
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In Italy: don't just look, smile and have a kind word.
Italian efficiency when it comes to coffee should be studied. In Italy: - Walk into a bar and look at the guy - Un caffe - 30 seconds later it’s ready - Shoot it - Leave €1 - Walk out In the US: - Join a line - Wait - Order coffee - Answer 12 questions: Size? Milk? Roast? Sugar? Temperature? Colombia beans? Name? How do you spell it? - $12.34 - Ask for a 20% tip. Click 5 times on a ipad to have a custom tip - Tap phone - ask where to send the invoice - Wait again on a different line - Someone call a name that sounds similar to mine - get the coffee - too hot, can't drink it - finally at temperature taste like shit
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France’s justice system is independent and that independence is precisely what ensures the law applies without political interference. Free speech is not a shield for illegal contents or the humiliation of women online. Protecting digital rights means enforcing rules that keep people safe. That’s the French and European approach.
Macron’s France is losing legitimacy as it weaponizes criminal investigations to suppress free speech and privacy. The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to assist France in its investigation of @elonmusk, calling the case politically motivated. The French prosecutor’s office claims to be independent, but that is untrue: French prosecutors are hired, fired, and promoted by the government. The judicial police — who provide often misleading reports to investigative judges — are also controlled by the government. 🎭 I’m under a similar investigation in France: over a dozen charges, each carrying up to 10 years in prison. Proud to stand alongside Elon Musk and others targeted by Macron's campaign against digital rights. In Macron’s France, being investigated is the new Légion d’honneur.🎖
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Let’s be clear about what happened here: DOJ capitulated. We didn’t. Proud we kept up the fight when they caved.
Congratulations to all on this historic liability finding. The DOJ was proud to lead a settlement in this matter that brings the American people instant relief and also applauds the remaining states on today’s liability finding. This is a win for everyone in our country besides Live Nation.
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The DOJ settled its claims against Live Nation separately in March 2026 and withdrew from the antitrust trial; the liability finding resulted from the trial continued by 36 states and DC that rejected the settlement. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St… nbcnews.com/business/consu… pbs.org/newshour/natio…
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Simonetta Vezzoso retweeted
European governments are getting WhatsApp and Signal out of their system. The move is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🔗 politi.co/41xZZbU
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