The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI assistants, escalating a regulatory confrontation that will determine whether artificial intelligence becomes the next great platform lock-in or the first to be broken before it sets. EU watchdogs are poised to lay out what Alphabet must do to grant the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude access to the same Android features that Google reserves for Gemini, including voice activation, system-level search integration, and the ability to interoperate with other Android software, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The draft findings are part of specification proceedings opened under the Digital Markets Act in January, and they arrive at the precise moment Google is completing Gemini’s takeover of the Android assistant experience for more than two billion devices worldwide.…