Digital Services Interoperability: Free Software in the European legislative landscape

 FOSDEM 2024, Video here.

What Have The Consultants Ever Done For Us?

 

T. Valletti, here. 

Digital Platforms, Competition Law, and Regulation: Comparative Perspectives

 Open access book with many goodies, here. 

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning: Understanding the Costs and Benefits

 ICO, here. 

Future Software Should Be Memory Safe

 White House, here. 

Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI

 The Verge, here, 

Parliament's negotiating position on the standard essential patents regulation

 EP, here. 

The Countdown to the Google Ad Tech Trial Is On: Here’s What You Need to Know

 TechPolicy.Press, here. 

RemedyFest

 Video here. 

How OpenAI/Microsoft and other 'big tech'/ AI partnerships ended up in the antitrust hotseat in both Europe and the US

 DealCast here. 

Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Kudos to the AI which wrote it

 Microsoft Blog, here.

Innovation against change

 A. McLean, here.

Microsoft announces ‘AI access principles’ to offset OpenAI competition concerns

 TechCrunch, here.

Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days

 OWA, here. 

EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps

 FT, here. 

Rotten Apple

 Adactio, here. 

How to Think About Remedies in the Generative AI Copyright Cases

 P. Samuelson, here. 

Privacy Advocates Urge European Regulators to Oppose Meta’s No-Ads Subscription Model

 CPI, here. 

Competition Law and Innovation II

 CENTI, Podcast with T. Schrepel, here. 

DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter says the antitrust fight against Big Tech is just beginning

 The Verge, here. 

7 changes to patch the EU’s Digital Markets Act and make open app markets a reality over Apple’s belligerent stance

GamesFray, here.  

Banking and Antitrust

 S. Omarova, G. Steele, here. 

Apple's App Store Compliance with the Digital Markets Act: The 7 Deadly Sins You Must Know

 Aptoide, here. 

Apple says it spent "tens of thousands of hours” on the DMA App Store solution after Microsoft complains

MSPowerUser, here.  

The American Schools of Antitrust

 T. Wu, here. 

Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair

 Wired, here. 

Whatsapp muss sich öffnen: Threema und Signal winken ab

 Heise.de, hier. 

German Court Rules Against Google in Competition Case

 Pymts, here. 

Helping Europe’s digital economy take off: An agenda for the next Commission

 CER, here. 

Reviewing Mergers Under Article 102 TFEU: Proximus/EDPnet (Belgium)

 F. Bostoen, here. 

In conversation with Sarah Cardell

  Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, here. 

Joint Inventorship: AI-Human Style

 Patentlyo, here. 

AG Kokott on Google Shopping

 Here. 

Data-related Obligations and Interoperability in the DMA

 CERRE, here. 

EPC Statement concerning Apple's compliance plans with the DMA

 Here. 

DOJ re Google AdTech

 PLAINTIFFS’ POST-TRIAL BRIEF, here. 

DMA Compliance workshops

18 March : Apple

19 March : Meta

20 March : Amazon

21 March : Alphabet

22 March : ByteDance

26 March : Microsoft

Here.

Can Telecommunications Regulation Inform Emerging Regulatory Approaches To Generative AI?: An Initial Inquiry

 D. Lawrence DOJ, here. 

Innovation competition and abuse of dominance in the AI age

 Presentation here.

How to Avoid Big Tech's Monopoly on AI?

 Video here. 

Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges

 ArsTechnica, here. 

 

[Of course they do :-), if they can get away with it...]

AI Antitrust - Yann Guthmann

 Concurrences, here. 

Intelligence artificielle générative : l’Autorité s’autosaisit pour avis et lance une consultation publique jusqu’au vendredi 22 mars

AdlC, ici. 

Commission adopts revised Market Definition Notice for competition cases

 EC, here. 

Morning Brew: Apple isn't playing fair

 Video here. 

WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

Wired, here. 

In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them

 The Register, here. 

Effective remedies in digital market abuse of dominance cases

 A. Ganesh, here. 

Bytedance v. EU on interim relief

GC, Order here. 

F.T.C. Chair Lina Khan live at the 2024 DCN: Next Summit

 Video here. 

Launch of the GW Competition & Innovation Lab

 Video here. 

NB: None of the academic economists mentioned that they worked for consultancies - eg Richard Gilbert for Compass Lexecon. 

Interesting to see Hans Zeng (EC) there too.

Who’s financing the whole initiative isn’t mentioned on the website. I guess no private donors then (?). The “other” dynamic competition initiative hosted in Florence is instead openly financed (also) by a consultancy. 

Letter: Europe has an unri­valled record on anti­trust

 O. Guersent, here.

The article has ruffled some feathers, while others of a similar tone have passed unnoticed. It is true, as BEUC writes, the "EU’s guiding principle has been to uphold a competition enforcement standard based on broader values including consumer choice, innovation and quality rather than simply price". However, it must also be acknowledged that in the EU the more economic approach with a very strong "industrial organization flavour" and its laser focus on prices and models (along with the array of consultancies it brings along) remains fairly dominant and has not been directly challenged from a theoretical standpoint as is happening in the US. 

EU AI Act: Next Steps for Implementation

 iapp, here. 

What super-apps could mean for the communications sector

 Ofcom, here. Ofcom on interoperability here. 

CERRE DMA Conference

 Video here. 

A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation

 UK Government response to consultation, here. 

FTC Launches Inquiry into Generative AI Investments and Partnerships

 Here.

When Apple takes the European Commission for fools: An initial overview of Apple’s new terms and conditions for iOS app distribution in the EU

 D. Geradin, here. 

Is “More Clouds” the Future We Want? A Dispatch from the FTC AI Tech Summit

 Techpolicy.press, here. 

“It never hurts to read the law.”

 M. Kades, here. 

Foundation Models: how they are regulated in the AI ACT

 Radiobruxelleslibera, here. 

Caffarra's Conference 2024

 Videos here. 

Don’t let monopolies hold Taylor Swift’s next tour hostage

 M. Carrier, here. 

Large language models and generative AI

 UK Parliament, here. 

Oral hearing with Ofcom and the CMA here. 

Apple’s DMA compliance plan is a trap and a slap in the face for the European Commission

 Proton, here.