Data Portability & the Digital Markets Act

 ECA, video here 

Committee MEPs want to enhance customers’ control over their financial data

 EP, here. 

A Report from the Courtroom: Amazon’s paramount significance for competition across markets confirmed in Germany

 SCiDA, here. 

Big companies, big risks

 ACM, here. 

Article 102 Guidelines: Where Are We Heading?

 E. Iossa, here. 

EU COMPETITION LAW AFTER THE GRAND CHAMBER’S DECEMBER 2023 SPORTS TRILOGY: EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE, INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION AND ROYAL ANTWERP FC

 G. Monti, here. 

Investigation opened against Novamont for alleged abuse of dominant position by Novamont

 AGCM, here. 

Calling on the European Commission to Enforce Data Portability

 MyData, here. 

Bundesgerichtshof bestätigt Amazons überragende marktübergreifende Bedeutung für den Wettbewerb

 Hier. 

CMA Conference for its 10th anniversary

 Video here. 

How open, effective competition and targeted, effective regulation can together help to drive economic growth and productivity

 CMA, here. 

CMA seeks views on AI partnerships and other arrangements

 CMA, here. 

Consent or Pay: The EDPB weighs in

 iapp, video here. 

L'economia dei dati nell'Intelligenza Artificiale

 

Video qui. 

You don’t need to own an iPhone for the government lawsuit against Apple to benefit you

 Los Angeles Times, here and here. 

Audizioni sul ddl n. 1066 (Norme per lo sviluppo e per l'adozione di tecnologie di intelligenza artificiale)

 Senato, video qui. 

Considerations for AI Opt-Out

 M. Nottingham, here. 

EU Data Summit of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: Always learning something new and unexpected

Programme, here. 

Recordings:

Day 1 here.

Day 2 here. 

(Study mentioned during the "Level Playing Field in Accessing Vehicle Data?" here, BTW). 

Day 3 here. 

Second time that I participate in person, the other 4 editions I followed online (and I hereby gratefully acknowledge that I normally use the summit's recordings also as teaching material for my courses). 

This time I participated in a transatlantic panel on antitrust (as a humble researcher and observer, I didn't have perhaps tons to say - apart from talking of saffron risotto - but the other two Panelists did - worth watching for their comments and the excellent questions by Samuel Stolton). But I also had a fun dual role as a moderator of a truly insightful DMA panel (first time I moderated a panel - and it showed - but, luckily, my great Panelists didn't need me at all!).

Driving Innovation with Antitrust

 G. Massarotto, here. 

EU Merger Regulation 139/2004: 20 Years that Made a Difference

 EC, Video here. 

OECD-EU Online Workshop on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

 Video soon available here. 

Competitive and resilient high-tech manufacturing base in Europe

 M. Vestager, here.

Letta Report here. 

Draghi's Géopolitiques Article here. 

AI Foundation Models: Technical update report

 CMA, here. 

Non-price competition in EU merger control

 EC, Policy Brief here. 

Toward a Safer, Freer, and Fairer Digital Economy

 FTC, here. 

USTR Initiates Section 301 Investigation of China’s Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance

 US, here. 

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps

 NYTimes, here. 

European cloud customers affected by restrictive licensing terms for existing on-premise software, new [paid for] research finds

 Savanta, here. 

Konferenz: Shaping AI - Demokratisch. Nachhaltig. Innovativ

 Grüne im Bundestag, Video hier. 

EDPB: ‘Consent or Pay’ models should offer real choice

 Here. 

Sam Altman Invests in Energy Startup Focused on AI Data Centers

 WSJ, here. 

2024 Antitrust and Competition Conference

Full of amazing panels, you just have to watch them all - over the coming weeks and months, also because they'll even get better with time.

Day one, video here. 

How Much Does Antitrust Enforcement Affect Productivity Growth? (8:23)

Case Studies: AT&T & IBM (2:07:25)

The Quest for Next: How Antitrust Shapes Competition and Innovation in Computers and Chips (3:45:17)

Case Study: Microsoft (4:48:19)

Case Study: Google (6:11:24)

The End of the Beginning for the Antimonopoly Movement? (7:33:50)

Conversation with Lina Khan and Jonathan Kanter (9:39:53)

Day two, video here.

Regulatory Competition, the DMA and Innovation (14:05)

How (Not) To Regulate AI: Challenges and Opportunities (1:50:54)

The Proper Role of Economics in Merger Review (3:34:20)

Privacy, Property Rights and the Diffusion of AI (4:52:29)

This Conference is NOT Funded by Big Tech (6:20:55)

FTC chair Lina Khan on playing "anti-monopoly"

 CBS News, here. 

Gen AI - Law & Policy Challenges

 DCI, Video here.

Rebalancing Europe: A new economic agenda for tackling monopoly power

 Programme here; livestream here. 

Meta Seeks Dismissal of FTC’s Antitrust Lawsuit Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals, Claiming It ‘Faces Fierce Competition From a Range of Platforms’

 Variety, here. 

Regulating Big Tech: India Joins the Club

 V. Kathuria, here. 

Monopoly Round-Up: A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He?

 M. Stoller, here. 

Développement des systèmes d’IA : les recommandations de la CNIL pour respecter le RGPD

 CNIL, ici. 

Nach EU-Milliardenstrafe: Apple streicht Linkverbot, beharrt auf Provision

 Heise.de, hier. Also here. 

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

 NYTimes, here.

Reshoring and Restoring: CHIPS Implementation for a Competitive Semiconductor Industry

 Economicliberties.us, here. 

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

 D. Acemoglu, Video here. 

Sure, No One Knows What Happens Next. But Past Is Prologue When It Comes To AI

 TechPolicy.press, here. 

Google's Chrome Antitrust Paradox

 S. Munir et al., here. 

Revision of EU pharmaceutical legislation

 EP, here. 

The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2024

 Videos here. 

Meta's Pay-or-Okay Model: An Analysis Under EU Data Protection, Consumer, and Competition Law

 A. D'Amico et al., here. 

Grüne Technik: EU-Kommission will Chinas Marktdominanz eindämmen

 Heise.de, hier. 

In Conversation with Mariana Mazzucato, Tim O’Reilly and Ilan Strauss on Algorithmic Attention Rents

 Video here. 

EU Companies Criticize Proposal Favoring Big Tech in Cloud Computing Contracts

 CPI, here. 

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: our 16 key takeaways

 Stibbe, here. 

UN: AI resolution must prioritise human rights and sustainable development

 Article 19, here. 

Said no to tracking cookies? Good chance your data are still being collected

 Amsterdam Law School, here. 

Rebalancing Europe – a new economic agenda for tackling monopoly power

 EU civil society, here. 

Amazon Self-preferencing in the Shadow of the Digital Markets Act

 J. Waldfogel, here. 

Global dominance of biggest stocks rises to highest in decades

 FT, here and here. 

Business Blog’s Clear Eye on AI

 FTC, here. 

The Forgotten Anti-Monopoly Law: The Second Half of Clayton Act § 7

 R. Lande, J. Newman, R. Kelly Slaughter, here. 

Alternative browsers report uplift after EU’s DMA choice screen mandate

 Natasha The Great and I. Mehta, here. 

AI Foundation Models: Update paper (11 April 2024)

 CMA, here. 

Meta trials its AI chatbot across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger in India and Africa

 TechCrunch, here. 

Commission approves Illumina's plan to unwind its completed acquisition of GRAIL

 Here. 

3 key interlinked risks to fair, open and effective competition (update)

 CMA, here. 

The Dispersion of Power: Samuel Bagg’s Urgent Call to Redefine Democracy

 Yale ISPS, here. 

Epic's proposed permanent injunction

 Here. 

The historic all-star, whole-of-government approach panel

 Video here, from 41:50. 

An Economy with Ethics

 McGuinness, here. 

Are We Ready for AI Creative Destruction?

 D. Acemoglu, here. 

The DMA in Action: Early Effects and Global Reach

 ITIF (supported by all DMA gategeepers but Bytedance - as well as Boeing, the national champion), video will be here. 

When it comes to digital, this is our 1955.

 

M. Vestager, video here; speech here. 

'Super Apps' and the Digital Markets Act

 

Short piece 'invited' by a Journal, preprint here.

Notate Bene: written before the DOJ v. Apple Complaint was filed ;-).

Appeals court reopens DOJ antitrust probe of Realtors

 Politico.com, here. 

Not a ‘side dish’: New industrial policy and competition

 C. Caffarra and N. Lane, here. 

BTW: CC blocked me on X because she finds me and/or my views annoying. No hard feelings, her views will always be welcome on this blog!

America Has a Resilience Problem

 L. Khan, here (or you car hear the Author here). 

Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites

 Retrododo, here. 

Big Tech's inside job

 Business Insider, here. 

Does Apple Stifle or Promote Innovation?

 M. Stucke, here. 

Amazon offers free credits for startups to use AI models including Anthropic

 Reuters, here. 

Vestager: Apples Sicherheitsbedenken wegen Sideloading per DMA sind Blödsinn

 Heise.de, hier. Video here. 

Projet de loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l'espace numérique

 DOSSIER LÉGISLATIF, ici. 

Reinvigorating Antitrust: Citizens, not just Consumers

 Transcript, here. 

Ten years later, Facebook’s Oculus acquisition hasn’t changed the world as expected

 TechCrunch, here. 

A first look at Europe’s alternative iPhone app stores

 The Verge, here. 

Lina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show

 Video here. 

EU AI Act Compliance Checker

Here.  

Regulator Probes BlackRock and Vanguard Over Huge Stakes in U.S. Banks

 WSJ, here. 

Data Protection Reform: CIPIL spring conference 2024

 Videos here. 

Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models

S. Fish et al., here.  

Banking in video games and virtual worlds

 CFPB, here. 

EU: AI Act fails to set gold standard for human rights

 Article 19, here. 

THE original law school paper on Amazon: did you read it?

 S. Sharda, here. 

Will Antitrust Become Progressive?

 H. Hovenkamp, here. 

For AI firms, anything "public" is fair game

 Axios, here.