The European Commission ordered Meta to restore rival AI chatbots' access to the WhatsApp Business API under pre-ban terms within five days. The move escalates an antitrust investigation into whether Meta abused its dominance by reserving AI features for itself, with potential fines up to 10% of global revenue.
She stated that in rapidly evolving markets, competition can be lost long before a final decision is adopted.
Grok was the worst offender, with guest conversations public by default and TikTok's tracker receiving webcam image metadata.
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Google has rolled out a selfie video option that lets users recover their Google Accounts by recording head movements for comparison against a stored video. The encrypted feature adds another recovery method while recommending multiple sign-in options and includes safeguards against AI-based impersonation.
The European Commission has fined Alphabet €890 million for two DMA violations: self-preferencing its own services in Google Search and restricting payment steering options in the Play Store. Google must revise its policies within 60 days or face further penalties.
CISA added the actively exploited Microsoft SharePoint deserialization vulnerability CVE-2026-50522 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-07-22 with a federal due date of 2026-07-25. Agencies and organizations must apply vendor mitigations per BOD 26-04 or discontinue use if patches are unavailable.
