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