Wednesday, March 23, 2022
« Wouldn’t it be nice to solve all such problems in one go? »
…famously said the former Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes in the long aftermath of the EU Microsoft case referring to interoperability issues caused by Big Tech. More than a decade after Kroes expressed that wish, the DMA moves exactly in this direction, with mandated interoperability for ancillary services *and* for so called horizontal interoperability of instant messaging (albeit limited to one-to-one communications with late openings with regard to group chats and calls), as it has been reported by the FT and Politico today. More could be done, and the devil will likely be in the technical details of the obligations, of course, but it’d be a promising beginning.
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Google has announced that it is launching AI Overviews and AI Mode (together with other Gemini-based services) in France. While traditional ...
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EC, here . "The Commission also takes note of Google's proposals on how it plans to apply the principles of the decision to AI O...
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S. Salop, here. From what I have seen, this "modern" economic analysis certainly moves beyond a narrow focus on price. It takes ...
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Reuters, here . Too little, too late?
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Pax Silica is presented by the US State Department as its flagship initiative on AI and supply-chain security; the FT reports the EU, Ger...
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ArsTechnica, here.

