AI Foundation Models: Initial report

 CMA, here.

Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers

 EC, here. Q&A here. 

An Interdisciplinary Toolbox for Researching the AI-Act

 Verfassungsblog, here. 

Data Access And Re-Use In The European Legal Framework For Data, From The GDPR To The Proposed Data Act: The Case Of Vehicle Data

 LeADS, here. 

Blockchain: Guide for Trade Unionists 4.0

 Filcams, here. 

Big Tech's Role in Contactless Payments: Analysis of Mobile Device Operating Systems and Tap-to-Pay Practices

 CFPB, here. 

Where is Microsoft’s handheld Xbox?

 The Verge, here. 

«When AI systems are used, they are usually used for surveillance»

 Schweizermonat.ch, here. 

Innovation Misunderstood

 A. Ezrachi, M. Stucke, here. 

What the E.U.’s sweeping rules for Big Tech mean for your life online

 Washington Post, here. 

The governance of artificial intelligence: interim report

UK House of Commons, here and here.

More tools to combat market power, please

 M. Snoep, here. 

A market study exploring the level of competition in the segment for online payment transactions in the making

 EC, here. 

Generative AI: the US Copyright class action against OpenAI

 G. Campus, here. 

Setapp Planning to Launch Alternative App Store for iOS in Europe

 MacRumors, here. 

Competition Act: Final report and decision of online intermediation platforms market inquiry to be conducted

 CC South Africa, here. 

Regulator notifies Google of punishment for unfair practices in app market

The Korea Times, here.  

What Signal are the Draft Merger Guidelines Sending to Enforcers Elsewhere?

 C. Caffarra, here. 

One Act to Rule Them All: What Is At Stake In the AI Act Trilogue?

 Verfassungsblog, here. 

AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US federal judge

 The Verge, here. 

Microsoft and Activision Blizzard restructure proposed acquisition and notify restructured transaction to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority

 Microsoft, here. 

The New Merger Guidelines Offer an Important Course Correction on Merger Enforcement

 H. Singer, here. 

EDPS Opinion 39/2023 on the Proposal for a Regulation on payment services in the internal market and the Proposal for a Directive on payment services and electronic money services in the Internal Market

 EDPS, here. 

Opinion 38/2023 on the Proposal for a Regulation on a framework for Financial Data Access

 EDPS, here. 

THE DIGITAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT OF INDIA, EXPLAINED

 R. Roy, G. Zanfir-Fortuna, here. 

Commission boosts data sharing and innovation for a smart, sustainable and resilient EU tourism ecosystem

 EC, here. 

‘Ecosystem’ theories of harm in digital mergers: New insights from network economics

C. Caffarra et al., here.  

When tech says ‘no’

 B. Evans, here. 

The Rise of AI

 cirsd, here. 

Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview

 D. Coyle et al., here. 

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

 C. Rikap, here. 

A New Contract for Artists in the Age of Generative AI

 Tech Policy Press, here. 

Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI

 D. Gray Widder et al., here

Contentious areas in the EU AI Act trilogues

 iapp, here. 

Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and others put $235 million into Hugging Face

 The Verge, here. 

FTC Secures Settlement with ICE and Black Knight Resolving Antitrust Concerns in Mortgage Technology Deal

FTC, here.  

Do We Collaborate With What We Design?

K. Evans, here.  

Americans Pay a Price for Corporate Consolidation

 NYTimes, here. 

OTNS: Is Code still Law? (Interview with Lawrence Lessig)

 The Blockchain Socialist, here. 

Horizontal intervention, sectoral challenges: Evaluating the data act's impact on agricultural data access puzzle in the emerging digital agriculture sector

 C. Atik, here. 

Google Chat adding voice messages and interoperability with Slack, Teams

 9To5Google, here. 

Microsoft to Unbundle Teams Software in Europe

 WSJ, here. 

The Mythology of Horizontal Merger Efficiencies

 M. Glick et al., here. 

The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

 R. Erumi, A. Gurumurthy, here. 

Digital Services Act: Application of the risk management framework to Russian disinformation campaigns

 EC, here. 

Going Nuclear?

 D. Backovsky, J. Bryson, here. 

Carl Shapiro: How Would These Draft Guidelines Work in Practice?

 C. Shapiro, here. 

The Dynamic Competition Paradigm: Insights and Implications

 D. Teece, here. 

UK digital regulators discuss interagency enforcement, AI governance coordination

 iapp, here. 

ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT INCREASES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

 T. Babina et al., here. 

OpenAI on copyright and Gen AI

 Here.