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AI chatbot’s potential to become web 'gateways' set for French opinion by July

By Andrew Boyce ( March 4, 2026, 16:10 GMT | Insight) -- The potential for AI chatbots to evolve into a “gateway” for access to internet services will be addressed in French conclusions in “late June or early July,” according to a senior official at the national competition authority. Yann Guthmann suggested that in five or 10 years’ time, OpenAI’s ChatGPT could become “the web for a lot of the population” – in the same way that Google’s search engine or Facebook is now.The potential for AI chatbots to evolve into a “gateway” for access to internet services will be addressed in French competition conclusions in “late June or early July,” according to a senior official....

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