Thursday, August 31, 2023

Saturday, August 12, 2023

ONDC's Quick Takeoff Expected

 Video here. 

Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition of 2 May 2023 on the Implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)

 Here. 

What Are the Thoughts Behind the Changes? Draft DOJ-FTC Merger Guidelines Explained by DOJ DAAGs

 Our Curious Amalgam, here. 

Meta pledges to ask EU users for consent before showing behavioural ads

 noyb, here. 

Art 102 TFEU & Exclusionary Conduct – The Reform: Anne Witt, Gönenç Gürkaynak, Massimiliano Kadar

 Chez Oles, here. 

Although the New Merger Guidelines Should Be Applauded, There Is Still Room for Improvement

 D. Bush et al., here. 

Zero Trust AI Governance

 AINow, here. 

We Need Smart Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence

 ScientificAmerican, here. 

Good Governance Is a Bad Idea

 K. Pistor, here. 

Exploring Antitrust and Platform Power in Generative AI

 K. Kollnig, Q. Li, here. 

Who Learns and Who Profits in the Era of Artificial Intelligence?

 BotPopuli, here. 

AI can be a force for good or ill in society, so everyone must shape it, not just the ‘tech guys’

 TheGuardian, here. 

Caro-voli, come funziona l’algoritmo che ha fatto scattare l’intervento del Governo

 Sole24Ore, here. 

Cinven (Luxo 1) S.a.r.l. and Others v Competition and Markets Authority

 CAT, here. 

FTC’s Shaoul Sussman on the Merger Guidelines

 Antitrust Vlog, here. 

Wednesday, August 02, 2023

The Relationship between Competition and Innovation (Part I)

 OECD Competition Policy Roundtable, here. 


How Biden Can Get Antitrust Right

 J. Furman and C. Shapiro on the WSJ, here (and here). 

Warner, Colleagues Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Encourage Competition in Social Media

 Here. 

Meta apparently switches to consent for behavioral ads after five years of litigation

 Noyb, here. 

What Europe’s AI regulation moment will mean for the world

 360info, here. 

The AI rules that US policymakers are considering, explained

 Vox, here. 

Competition Between AI Foundation Models: Dynamics and Policy Recommendations

 T. Schrepel, A. Pentland, here. 

Saint Lina of the Competitive Markets

 WSJ, Video here. 

Statement Regarding Termination of CooperCompanies’ Attempted Acquisition of Cook Medical’s Reproductive Health Business

 FTC, here.

Meta says it will offer Europeans a free choice to deny tracking

 Natasha The Great, here. 

Chocolate and Antitrust

 

H/T 
@nmorenobelloso

Non-price effects of mergers and acquisitions

 J. Haucap, J. Stiebale, here. 

“Will AI Destroy Us?”: Roundtable with Coleman Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and me (+ GPT-4-enabled transcript!)

 Here. 

Why Meta is giving away its extremely powerful AI model

 S. Ghaffary, here. 

Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention

 A. Mager et al., here. 

Denied by Design? Data Access Rights in Encrypted Infrastructures

 M. Veale, here. 

Thresholds of Merger Notification: The Challenge of Digital Markets, the Turnover Lottery, and the Question of Re-interpreting Rules

 R. Podszun, here. 

Is America’s Merger Fever Breaking?

 S. Mitchell, R. Knox, here. 

The Next World System: Can US Trade Policy Make Us More Secure, Democratic, & Prosperous?

 Open Markets, Video here. 

Antitrust law examination of “Google News Showcase”

 Bundeskartellamt, here. 

The rise of conversational AI with the co-founder of Siri

 ZenDesk, Video  here. 

This California agency wants to know what happens to all that connected car data

 TechCrunch, here. 

Unpacking the 2023 Revised Merger Guidelines: A Conversation With the U.S. Department of Justice

 Ruled by reason, Podcast Episode here.