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  • SoftBank's €75B French Stargate: up to €75B (~$87B) for 5GW of AI datacenters in France, phase one alone €45B for 3.1GW in Hauts-de-France by 2031, on nuclear-heavy, low-carbon power. X framed it as "Europe finally gets its own Stargate", with the obligatory footnote that SoftBank headline numbers and SoftBank deployments are different financial instruments. Sources: SoftBank press release, TechCrunch, DCD
  • EU to Meta: reopen WhatsApp, you have five days: the Commission's first antitrust interim measures in ~17 years order Meta to restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots, with fines up to 10% of global turnover on the table. Meta calls it "regulatory overreach" and will appeal. Sources: Commission press release, Engadget
  • The liability era begins: YouTube will auto-label videos with significant photorealistic AI use even when creators don't disclose, and a Munich court ruled that Google's AI Overviews are Google's own statements, making it directly liable for false claims about two publishers. Sources: YouTube blog, The Decoder, heise
  • The AI Act gets its machinery: the Commission appointed the Scientific Panel (60 independent frontier-AI experts) and the Advisory Forum (174 members from 700+ applications) in early June. Enforcement is no longer a PDF; it has staff. Sources: European Commission, AIwire
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