EU Opens Antitrust Investigation into Meta’s WhatsApp AI Gatekeeping (4 Dec 2025)
Brussels formally triggered a competition probe on 4 December 2025 into Meta’s October WhatsApp policy that blocks rival AI chatbots while leaving “Meta AI” untouched.
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Russia Blocks FaceTime Nationwide, Reveals Earlier Snapchat Ban
On 4 Dec 2025 Roskomnadzor ordered network-level blocking of Apple’s end-to-end-encrypted FaceTime and, in the same notice, disclosed it had already banned Snapchat on 10 Oct 2025, citing unproven terrorism and fraud claims.
Trump Slashes 2031 CAFE Target to 34.5 mpg
On 3 Dec 2025 the White House opened a 45-day comment period on a rule that would cut the U.S. fleet-wide fuel-economy requirement for model-year 2031 vehicles from 50.4 mpg to 34.5 mpg, dismantling the Biden-era standard.
Russia Blocks Roblox Nationwide for “Extremism” and LGBT Content
On 3 Dec 2025, telecom regulator Roskomnadzor ordered all Russian ISPs to cut access to the 151-million-user platform Roblox, invoking the 2023 anti-LGBT extremism law after declaring the game’s moderation “inadequate.”
AWS Rolls Out ‘AI Factories’ and Autonomous Agent Suite at re:Invent 2025
On 3 Dec 2025, Amazon Web Services shifted from cloud-only to hybrid sovereignty by offering turnkey “AI Factories” — on-prem installations of Trainium3 or Nvidia Blackwell hardware bundled with Bedrock agent governance — alongside a new class of long-running frontier agents.
OpenAI Issues Internal “Code Red” to Refocus Entire Company on Upgrading ChatGPT
On 1 Dec 2025 CEO Sam Altman told staff to pause or slow non-core projects and surge resources into speeding, personalising and expanding ChatGPT after Google’s Gemini 3 eclipsed OpenAI on key benchmarks.
India Mandates Sanchar Saathi Pre-Install; Apple Pushes Back
On 28 Nov 2025 New Delhi ordered every new and existing smartphone in India to carry the state-run Sanchar Saathi anti-fraud app within 90 days, but Apple privately told officials it will not comply, igniting a privacy and political firestorm.
AWS Debuts “AI Factories” and Trainium3 3-nm Chip, Bringing Sovereign Agentic AI On-Prem
On 2 Dec 2025 at re:Invent, AWS rolled out fully-managed on-prem “AI Factories,” the 4×-faster Trainium3 chip, and a slate of agentic-AI integrations, marking its first push to run AWS-operated AI regions inside customer datacenters.
Russia Warns of Full WhatsApp Ban, Pushes Users Toward State-Backed ‘Max’ App
Between 28 Nov and 1 Dec 2025, regulator Roskomnadzor moved from throttling WhatsApp calls to threatening a total nationwide block unless Meta meets Russian data-access demands.
India Orders Continuous SIM Binding & 6-Hour Web Logouts for OTT Messengers
On 1 Dec 2025, India’s DoT invoked new Cybersecurity Rules to force WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and others to keep accounts tied to the original SIM and auto-log web sessions every six hours, giving firms 90 days to comply or face penalties.
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