Kenya targets Big Tech with new antitrust law

 TechCabal, here. 

The slipstream strategy: How high-status OEMs coopete with platforms to maintain their digital extensions' edge

 G. Reischauer et al., here. 

Competition policy in the Biden administration: Translating campaign poetry into governing prose

 B. Baer, here.. 

Commission calls on 18 Member States to comply with the EU Data Governance Act

 EC, here. 

The Evolving Role of Non-Price Competitive Parameters in EU Merger Review

 Norton Rose Fulbright, here. 

Fairness and contestability in the provision of software application stores services

 J. Padilla, here. 

Vertical Interoperability in Mobile Ecosystems: Will the DMA Deliver (What Competition Law Could Not)?

 G. Colangelo, A. Ribera Martínez, herehere. 

How a DOJ [IO] Economist Approaches Antitrust in America

Odd Lots, herehere.  

Harmful Online Choice Architecture

 CERRE Report, here.

Assessing India’s Ex-Ante Framework for Competition in Digital Markets

 V. Kathuria, here.

The Digital Services Act Meets the AI Act: Bridging Platform and AI Governance

 TechPolicy.Press, here.

Devising a trajectory towards a just and fair future: the identity of data protection in times of AI

 EDPS, here.

Pro-competitive industrial policy

 OECD, here.

Yann LeCun: AI Dynamics and Regulation

 Video here.

Taxonomy of Human Rights Risks Connected to Generative AI

UN B-Tech Project, here.

Privacy EU’s ChatGPT taskforce offers first look at detangling the AI chatbot’s privacy compliance

 Natasha The Great, here.

CDT EU Hosts DSA Civil Society Roundtable

 CDT, here.

Internet shutdowns in 2023: a global overview

 Access Now, here.

Ecosystem Theories of Harm: A Deeper Dive

 OECD, BIAC, Video here.

Reading the "Shadow Report" on US AI Policy

 TechPolicy.Press, here.

UK CMA Provides First Insights into the Application of UK Merger Control Rules to AI Partnerships

 Morrison & Foerster, here.

Regulating general-purpose AI: Areas of convergence and divergence across the EU and the US

 Brookings, here.

AI Integration and Modularization

 Stratechery, here.

Faux ScarJo and the Descent of the A.I. Vultures

 The New Yorker, here.

A new agenda to boost competitiveness and growth in the European Union

 Germany and France, here.

The Berlin Summit Declaration – Winning back the people

 Forum New Economy, here.

Justice Department Sues Live Nation-Ticketmaster for Monopolizing Markets Across the Live Concert Industry

 DOJ, here.

Private Ordering and Generative AI: What Can We Learn From Model Terms and Conditions?

CREATe, here.

Promoting competition in AI

 DOJ and Stanford, video here.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

 M. Mazzucato, here.

What Does the Supreme Court Have to Say About Consumer Welfare? A Reply to Professor Hovenkamp

 D. Bush, here.

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY

 R. Juhász, N. Lane, here.

Breaking Up Big Tech: Scissor Line Suggestions for Smart Cuts

 M. Schinkel , R. van Oosten, here.

Public Interest Digital Innovation

 Video here.

Fear and concentrated market power

 L. Khan, here

Media Companies Are Making a Huge Mistake With AI

 J. Lessin, here.

Artificial intelligence, data and competition

 OECD BP, here.

The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

 G.Weyl, A. Tang, here.

Bringing Back Business Competition

 Lina in the Dragons' Den, here.

Consultation on new digital markets competition guidance

 CMA, here. 

Apple may soon have to allow third-party app stores in Japan too

 9to5mac, here.

Interim report 8: data products and services

 ACCC, here.

From Brussels to Boulder: Colorado Enacts Comprehensive AI Law on the Heels of EU’s AI Act with Significant Obligations for Business and Employers

 Baker McKenzie, here.

Olivier Guersent: Antitrust, Tech Giants and the Digital Markets Act in Talks with Aurelien Portuese

 GW, Podcast here.

Measuring the Openness of AI Foundation Models: Competition and Policy Implications

 T. Schrepel, J. Potts, here.

Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models

 A. Basdevant et al., here.

How Does Competition in Generative AI Work?

 Video here.

Gateways Comparing Digital Communication Systems in Nordic Welfare States

 S. Sophus Lai, S. Flensburg, here.

Danish market investigations

 Here.

Monopolisation, moat building and entrenchment strategies

 OECD, here.

A Competition Lawyer’s Digest of the Letta Report – What You Need to Know

 S. MacMahon Baldwin, here.

Café IA, un dispositif pour débattre et agir sur notre relation aux technologies.

 CNN, ici.

Follow the (personal) Data: Positioning Data Protection Law as the Cornerstone of EU’s ‘Fit for the Digital Age’ Legislative Package

 G. Zanfir-Fortuna, here.

WIPO Member States Adopt Historic New Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge

 WIPO, here.

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act receives Royal Assent

 UK Gov, here.

Research, innovation and data: a fifth freedom in the EU single market?

 Bruegel, here.

The Origins of Europe’s Economic Malaise

 The Nation, here (and here).

Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

 P. Azoulay et al., here.

Report of the work undertaken by the ChatGPT Taskforce

 EDPB, here.

Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI

 C. Rikap, here.

Further investigation needed into acquisition of media company RTL by rival DPG

 ACN, here.

PUT THE PUBLIC IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT: SHADOW REPORT TO THE US SENATE AI POLICY ROADMAP

 CSOs, here.

Signal is a mighty example proving that tech can be done otherwise

 M. Whittaker, here.

CMA's Cloud services market investigation

 Competitive landscape working paper, here. 

Egress fees, here. 

Committed spend agreements, here.

High-Level Group for the Digital Markets Act Public Statement on Artificial Intelligence

 HLG, here.

Remarks by Executive Vice-President Vestager on the adoption of an antitrust decision against Mondelēz for cross-border trade restrictions

 Here.

FTC and DOJ Seek Info on Serial Acquisitions, Roll-Up Strategies Across U.S. Economy

 FTC, here.

2024 Anti-Monopoly Summit

AELP, Video here.

Interview Of The Week: Meredith Whittaker, AI Ethics Expert

 TheInnovator, herehere. 

Manipulation into unsustainable consumer choices as exploitative abuse of dominance

B. Mäihäniemi, herehere. 

The new fight against monopoly power

 N. Shaxson, here.

Of Hope, Reality, and the EU Digital Markets Act

 C. Caffarra, here. 

POWER & DIGNITY The Ends of Online Behavioral Advertising in the European Union

 A. Zerdiashvili, here. 

Private equity escapes major antitrust lawsuit

 Axios, here. 

What’s Happening in France, Portugal, and Poland? Catching Up With International Enforcers at the 2024 Spring Meeting

 ABA, Our Curious Amalgam here. 

Las Startups españolas denuncian prácticas anti-competitivas de Microsoft ante la CNMC

 Startups, aquí. 

CNMC public consultation on cloud services

 Here. 

Avec Antoine Monin, directeur général de Spotify France

 On n'arrête pas l'éco,  ici (de 21:25). 

Computational Antitrust and the Future of Competition Law Enforcement

 V. Robertson, J. Fleiss, here. 

A Regulatory Roadmap to AI and Privacy

 D. Solove, here. 

ICN 2024 Conference

 Live streams here. 

The new EU and UK regimes for regulating competition in digital markets: we finally see what’s on the plate—but do we know how to eat it?

 O. Andriychuk, here. 

Smart Data Roadmap – a response from non-govt members

 Here. 

Microsoft is launching its mobile game store in July

 TechCrunch, here. 

What to expect during dawn raids under the DMA, the DSA, and the draft AI Act

KCLB, here. 

Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms

 MIT, here.

Governments Must Shape AI’s Future

 M. Mazzucato, F. Gernone, here (and here). 

How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates

The Verge, here.  

CASE AT.40437 – Apple – App Store Practices (music streaming)

 Decision here. 

EU Competition Day 2024

 Video here. 

Noncompete agreements in a rigid labor market: the case of Italy

 T. Boeri et al., here. 

How to Fix a Failing Art. 102 TFEU: Substantive Interpretation, Evidentiary Requirements, and the Commission's Future Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses

 H. Schweitzer, S. de Ridder, here (and here). 

Are Letta, Macron and Draghi Marking the End of Neoliberalism in Europe?

 C. Caffarra, here. 

Digital Ecosystems: Market challengers and pro-competitive solutions

 Edited by V. Falce, here. 

Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Vifor over possible anticompetitive disparagement of iron medicine

 Here. 

24th Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium

 Here. 

Readings: 

Breaking Up Bottlenecks in Big Tech and Everywhere Else: Two Remedies That Keep Your Packages Arriving in Two Days

The Healing Power of Antitrust  

Monsters in the deep?

 Bank of England, here. 

AI and the Law: Regulation and Opportunity

 Panel moderated by R. Picker (I don't often agree with him, but always learn something), Video here. 

Pre-pre-print - Innovation Competition in the Generative AI Space: Future-Proofing Competition Policy (again)?

 Please let me know if you have any feedback, here (soon on Arxiv). 

Professors Tejas N. Narechania and Rebecca Wexler on Governing Artificial Intelligence

 Podcast here.