The Rise of Ecosystem Theories: Where are we after Microsoft/Activision and Booking/Etraveli

 Seminar, Video here

Conversation w Meredith Whittaker

 Here. 

Commission welcomes G7 leaders' agreement on Guiding Principles and a Code of Conduct on Artificial Intelligence

 EC, here. 

President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

 Here. The Order, here.

Brandeis and Eucken: Two Pioneers of the Modern ‘Big Tech and Antitrust Debate’

M. Wörsdörfer, here. 

Decoding the AI Act: A Critical Guide for Competition Experts

 T. Schrepel, here. 

Reclaiming our digital future: shedding light on big tech lobbying in the European Parliament

 Greens, Video here. 

The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how

 The Economist, here (and here). 

Questioning @Ofcom @CMAgovUK @TheFCA @ICOnews on how #ArtificialIntelligence is already affecting their work,

 UK Parliament, video here. 

Monopoly Power Is the Elephant in the Room in the AI Debate

 M. von Thun (Open Markets Institute), here. 

How AI Can Be Regulated Like Nuclear Energy

 H. Khlaaf, here. 

The New Merger Guidelines: Controlling Case Law and New Economics

 

The Utah Project, here (Friday, October 27, 2023, online from 5 PM CET). 

US v Google Trial Transcripts

 Capitol, here. 

"Trial of the Century": USA vs Google

 BIICL, Video here. 

DOJ v. Google Witness Tracker

 Here. 

Flight cancelled: the EC's prohibition of the Booking / Etraveli deal

 Linklaters, here.

AI Act: EU countries headed to tiered approach on foundation models amid broader compromise

 Euractiv, here. 

AI COMPANY ANTHROPIC RECENTLY SECURED UP TO $4BN IN INVESTMENT FROM AMAZON. NOW IT’S BEING SUED FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT BY UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP.

 Musuîc Business Worldwide, here. 

ICN 2023 Barcelona: Recommended online watching

 18 October

- 9.30: Reynders keynote

- 11.15 Khan keynote/interview

- 11.30 Digital mergers;

19 October

- 9 : Coeuré keynote

- 9.15: Challenges around unilateral conduct cases

- 10.15: Intersection between Competition & Privacy

20 October

- 11: Transforming Cartel Enforcement in ICN’s Third Decade: Current Trends and the Challenges Ahead

More plenary sessions here.

My impromptu reactions while listening are on the XBird, here. 

I scanned this article (badly, sorry!) for my Students, interested? Digital Platforms and Antitrust: Towards a More Techno-Economic Approach

Here.  

AI Act: EU countries headed to tiered approach on foundation models amid broader compromise

 BigLuca, here. 

Draft G7 Guiding Principles for Organizations Developing Advanced AI systems

 Here (and here). 

Safeguarding Data and Innovation: Building the Foundation for the Use of Artificial Intelligence

 House Committee Hearing, here. 

European Competition Day 2023

 Video here. 

Big techs in finance

 BIS, here. 

The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence

 Freedom House, here. 

8th CUTS-CIRC Biennial Conference on Competition, Regulation and Development

Day one; two.  

Foundation Models Supply Chain

 A recap: 

On compute here;

on accountability here;

on market concentration here. 

Intelligence artificielle : la CNIL dévoile ses premières réponses pour une IA innovante et respectueuse de la vie privée

 Ici. 

Exercising workers’ rights in algorithmic management systems

 ETUI, here. 

The future of digital mergers in a post-DMA world

 V. Robertson, here. 

Slingshot on the Amazon FTC Complait

 Podcast here. 

Green Agreements Guidance

 CMA, here. 

AN ANTIMONOPOLY APPROACH TO GOVERNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

 T. Narechania, G. Sitaraman, here. 

Microsoft concession a gamechanger that will promote competition

 CMA, here. 

Connected Conversation: Collective data rights: do we need them and what should they look like?

 Connected by data, here. 

EDPS Opinion 42/2023 on the Proposal for two Directives on AI liability rules

 Here. 

Government of Canada launches consultation on the implications of generative artificial intelligence for copyright

 Here. 

Ubisoft and Activision Blizzard’s deal for cloud gaming rights, explained

 The Verge, here. 

French Copyright framework for artificial intelligence: a half-hearted attempt

 The IPKat, here. 

Charting a Course for Global AI Governance: Options and Lessons from Nuclear History

 D. Backovsky, J. Bryson, here. 

Rising Above Liability: The Digital Services Act as a Blueprint for the Second Generation of Global Internet Rules

 M. Husovec, here. 

Sustainability and Competition: From Hot Topic to Business As Usual?

 Kluwer Competition Law Blog, here. 

Global AI Regulation Tracker

 Techie_ray, here. 

We’re in a new Gilded Age. What did we learn from the last one?

 Vox, here. 

This House Believes Artificial Intelligence Is An Existential Threat | Cambridge Union

 Video, here. 

DMA Catch up

 Video, here. 

MAKING AI WORK FOR CREATORS AND THE COMMONS

 CC, here. 

Contributions to the consultation on the compliance report template published

 Here.

New DMA templates

 EC, here. 

App developers’ #DMAwishes

 Coalition for App Fairness & Others, here.

The Price-Fixing Economy

 M. Stoller, here. 

Will AI hamper our ability to crawl the web for useful data?

 Lost Boy, here. 

Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog, here.  

Trust-busters come for AI’s building blocks

 Politico.com, here. 

US v. Google: A Primer

 Brookings, here. 

EU leadership in trustworthy AI: Guardrails, Innovation & Governance

 T. Breton, here. 

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI

 The Verge, here. 

Artists across industries are strategizing together around AI concerns

 TechCrunch, here. 

Antitrust Enforcement in the Crosshairs

 D. Bush at al., here. 

BBC Will Block ChatGPT AI From Scraping Its Content

 Deadline, here. 

Concorrenza, mercati digitali, investimenti. Il ruolo guida dell'Europa (Prima giornata)

 Video qui. 

Industrial Policy with Conditionalities: A Taxonomy and Sample Cases

 M. Mazzucato, D. Rodrik, here. 

Google’s Commitments under Section 19a of the German Competition Act

 Kluwer Competition Law Blog, here. 

INITIAL POLICY CONSIDERATIONS FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

 OECD, here. 

CMA launches market investigation into cloud services

 CMA, here. 

Ofcom refers UK cloud market to CMA for investigation

Ofcom, here.  

Final Report here. 

Competition authorities in the 21st century: Adapting to a new economic landscape

M. Bokkerink (CMA), here.

Nach Millionenstrafe gegen Apple: Niederländische Regulierer fordern Öffnung

 Heise.de, hier. 

Meta planning ad-free subscription or tracking ads ‘choice’ in EU, per WSJ — in latest bid to keep snooping

 #NatashaTheGreat, here. 

Meta CJEU Judgment – When Competition Meets Privacy

 DMRH (aka as Chez Oles), Video here. 

Lawsuit Highlights Why Meat Has Been Overpriced for 40 Years

 Prospect, here. 

DOES EUROPE'S PAYMENTS STRATEGY ADD UP?

 CER, here. 

France set to regulate cloud market more than EU

 Euractiv, here. 

When you need to talk to your Students about search advertising - directly from the DOJ v. Google Trial (Exhibit)

 Google, here. 

Gaming without Frontiers: Copyright and Competition in the Changing Video Game Sector

 CREATe, here. 

Let's Talk Competition: DMA

 EC, Video here. 

The EU AI Act Enters Final Negotiations

 Tech Policy Press Podcast, here. 

Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ Algorithm to Raise Prices

 

WSJ here (and here). Listen also to Tech News Briefing, here. 

Neue Bankdienste von Apple zeigen sich in Großbritannien

 Heise.de, hier. 

UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon

 The Register, here. 

Artists Are Losing the War Against AI

 The Atlantic, here.

The New Law of the European Data Market: Demystifying the European Data Strategy

 B. Botero Arcila, T. Groza, here.

Market concentration implications of foundation models: The Invisible Hand of ChatGPT

 Brookings, here.

The FTC’s landmark case against Amazon tackles the central issue of e-commerce market power

 Geradin Partners, here.

Leitlinien zu Artikel 102 AEUV – Neue Maßstäbe für die Missbrauchsaufsicht?

 Bundeskartellamt, Arbeitspapier hier. 

Nvidia’s French Offices Raided in Cloud-Computing Antitrust Inquiry

 WSJ, here (and here). 

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

 CFBP, here. 

Digital Platform Regulators Forum joint submission to Department of Industry, Science and Resources – Safe and responsible AI in Australia discussion paper

 Australian Goverment, here. 

WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.19.8: what’s new?

 Webatinfo, here. 

The AI Act and General Purpose AI: Key Recommendations to inform EU's AI Act Negotiations regarding General Purpose AI

 Algorithmic Watch, here. 

6 REFLECTIONS ON THE RECENT DESIGNATION OF GATEKEEPERS UNDER THE DMA

 Copenhagen Economics, here. 

Q&A: Tim Wu on the U.S. v. Google Trial

 The American Prospect, here. 

Draft Merger Guidelines: Recommendations to Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission

 Open Markets  & Co., here. 

U.S. and Plaintiff States v. Google LLC [2020] - Trial Exhibits

 DOJ, here. 

Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It’s Not.

 NYTimes, here. 

DIGITAL PLATFORM ECONOMICS: ESSAYS ON INNOVATION EFFECTS, ASSESSMENT OF MARKET POWER, AND POLICY APPROACHES TO PROMOTE COMPETITION

 T. Sousa Prado, here. 

What Should Merger Guidelines Do?

 Rethinking Antitrust, Podcast here. 

European Data Protection Supervisor, Wojciech Wiewiórowski, on GDPR 2.0 and the future of AI regulation

Global Counsel Podcast, here.  

EU Competition policy: Plus ça change…

 EC, here. 

Microsoft: I feel really good about our competitive position

 Semafor, here. 

White House could force cloud companies to disclose AI customers

 Semafor, here. 

The Tragedy of Google Search

 The Atlantic, here. 

Artificial Intelligence: Transparency

 AEPD, here. 

Mapping the landscape of data intermediaries

 JRC, here. 

Sustainability related aspects in EU merger control

 EC, here. 

Remarks by Commissioner Reynders on the Commission decision to prohibit the proposed acquisition of eTraveli by Booking

EC, here. 

FTC v. Amazon (I)

 Complaint, here. 

H7T @antitrustmemes 

Computational Power and AI

AINOW, here. 

Revising the Merger Guidelines To Return Antitrust to a Sound Economic and Legal Foundation

 J. Kwoka, here. 

Art. 102 AEUV und die Rolle der Ökonomie

 T. Rohner, hier. 

Order: Very large online platforms under the DSA (Amazon)

 General Court, here. 

The age of AI is a time for antitrust

 L. Lowe, here. 

Regulating the Risks of AI

 M. Kaminski, here. 

General Purpose AI Systems in the AI Act: trying to fit a square peg into a round hole

 C. Boine, D. Rolnick, here. 

Geoblocking of videogames and competition law: General Court confirms that Steam and videogame publishers breached Article 101 TFEU

 IPKitten, here.