Asymmetrical Regulation and What Makes or Breaks A Gatekeeper Lessons for the AfCFTA and COMESA Com

 African Competition and Consumer Protection Centre, with Alba as Guest, here.

AI, Startups, & Competition: Shaping California’s Tech Future

 Y Combinator, Video here.

On the Antitrust Implications of Embedding Generative AI in Core Platform Services

 T. Hoppner, S. Uphues, here. 

Nach wettbewerblichen Bedenken – Rücknahme einer Fusionsanmeldung im Bereich Crashtest-Dummies

 Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Google’s latest Privacy Sandbox gambit could pit user choice against tracking

 Natasha The Great, here.

CrowdStrike: il Garante privacy avvia accertamenti sugli effetti del blocco informatico

 GPDP, here.

Joint Statement on Competition in Generative AI Foundation Models and AI Products

 EU, UK, US, here.

IV BRAZIL-EUROPEAN UNION FORUM

 With M.M, here.

Von der Leyen muss Prioritäten setzen für Europas Wirtschaft

 T. Duso, hier.

Breaking Up the Giants of Harm

 Balanced Economy Project, here..

Beyond prices: The role of Monopoly Power in global inflation

 SOMO, here.

CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer

 Dave's Garage, here.

La CNMC investiga al grupo Apple por posibles prácticas anticompetitivas relacionadas con la distribución de aplicaciones en sus dispositivos

 Nota de prensa aquì.

Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu

 Here, and podcast here.

Competition Bureau advances an investigation into Kalibrate’s gas pricing services

 PR, here.

Digital Platform Services Inquiry – March 2025 – Final Report: Issues Paper

 ACCC, here.

Copyright and Generative AI: What Can We Learn from Model Terms and Conditions?

 G. Cifrodelli, L. Edwards, here.

Competition and industrial policy in the 21st century

 J. Tirole, here. 

Japan's competition chief speaks to MLex

 MLEX, here. 

DIGITAL ECONOMY REPORT 2024

 UNCTAD, here. 

FRANK PASQUALE: «NECESITAMOS UNA INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL AL SERVICIO DE LOS HUMANOS»

 Telos, aquì. 

Beware the rise of the super-app that does everything

 K. Birch, here. 

Artificial intelligence and copyright: use of generative AI tools to develop new content

 IP Helpdesk, here. 

Far From a Punt, SCOTUS’s NetChoice Decision Crushes Big Tech’s Big Litigation Dreams

 Epic, here. 

Statement 3/2024 on data protection authorities’ role in the Artificial Intelligence Act framework

 EDPB, here. 

EU Court upholds Commission decision to designate TikTok parent as gatekeeper

 Euractiv, here. 

Avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Google per pratiche commerciali scorrette

 AGCM, qui. 

The DOJ Antitrust Division isn’t afraid to go to court

 The Verge, here. 

EU Antitrust Regulators Probe Google-Samsung AI Deal for Potential Anti-Competitive Practices

 CPI, here. 

Friends of the Neo-Brandeisian Movement Unite!

 NLR, here. 

Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission Extend Public Comment on Request for Information Targeting Serial Acquisitions, Roll-Up Strategies Across U.S. Economy

 Here. 

Digital sovereignty in the G20

 FGV, here and here. 

The Economics of Biodiversity Loss

 S. Giglio et al., here. 

Nigeria’s $220 million fine against Meta previews a clash over market power

 Semafor, here. 

FINAL ORDER AND NOTICE OF THE FEDERAL COMPETITION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION COMMISSION here. 

Kamala Harris’ ties to Silicon Valley: Here’s what you need to know

CNBC, here.  

No, EU competition policy was not responsible for global IT chaos

 I. Brown, here. 

CrowdStruck

E. Zitron, here. 

IT outage exposes fragility of tech infrastructure

 BBC, here. 

The 6 Companies That Own (Almost) All Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

 WebFX, here. 

If it walks like a firm exercising market power post-merger...

 FTC, here. 

And here. 

New European Competition Trends in Digital Markets

Open Access Book, here. 

Commission coordinates action by national consumer protection authorities against Meta on ‘pay or consent' model

 Here. 

Commission accepts commitments by Vifor to address possible anticompetitive disparagement of iron medicine

 PR, here. 

The Korean Air-Asiana Airlines Merger Shows How Rational Actors May Produce Irrational Outcomes

 S. Lee, here. 

AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare

 A. Toomey McKenna, here. 

SCiDA Summer Review: A Year of Digital Markets Act

 ScidaProject (thank you), here. 

DIGITAL REGULATORY POWER BUT TECHNOLOGY TAKER

FEPS, here.

Apple Pay Antitrust case: EC press conference (get your alternative wallets default and ready)

It's obviously hard to get excited about online payment methods, but this is the most important thing to happen at the interface between fintech, big tech, and competition that I can think of.

Press conference here.

Press release here. 

Lucky us, Natasha the Great covered it, here.

I wonder how Australian banks - and the @acccgovau - are taking this news, eight years later (from @wavesblog archives  https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/apple-is-closed-and-controlling-say-banks-as-iphone-dispute-heats-up-20161017-gs4590 - interestingly also, in retrospect, who their economic consultant was.

On Open-Weights Foundation Models

 FTC, here.

Economic termites

DNW Podcast here.

The star economist who inspired Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘missions’

"The Telegraph" here.

The Public-In-The-Loop and the European Approach to AI Policy and Regulation

 From the AI Office trenches, here.

With AI, we need both competition and safety

 Brookings, here.

A false start is not an option for the EU AI Office

 Euractiv, here.

Call for tenders: Online advertising at the crossroads of different regulatory frameworks

 EU, here.

Artificial Intelligence Co-Regulation: The role of standards in the EU AI Act

 C. Marsden, here.

CODE’s Contribution to the European Digital Agenda

 Here.

Design trompeur : les résultats de l’audit du Global Privacy Enforcement Network

 CNIL, ici.

The Netherlands: DMA Enforcement Paradise?

 J. van den Boom et al., here.

Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf v. Meta

 Düsseldorf Regional Court, here (GenAI translation).

And Freiheitsrechte on the ruling hier.

[Video hier.]

Ecosystem theories of harm in EU merger control: analysing competitive constraints and entrenchment

 M. Batra, here.

Dutch Torpedo at Work – AG Collins’ Opinion in the Booking Case

 Kluwer CLB, here. 

And dusting-off, this (much praised by the very kind Heike when I first presented it).

Public Interest AI for Europe? Shaping Europe’s Nascent Industrial Policy

 AINOW, here.

[This is a real] Conference Debrief – Highlights from the ECN DMA Workshop

 SCiDA, here.

Round Table on recent developments in merger control standards

 Competition Commission of South Africa, here.

Enforcing competition law in digital markets and ecosystems: policy challenges and options

 Competition Commission of South Africa, here.

The E.U. Goes Too Far

 Stratechery, here.

The Digital Markets Act: A short guide for tech challengers

 Belgian Competition Authority, here. 

Press release here.

The Japanese Smartphone Act: Teaching Competition Law New Tricks

 A. Ribera Martìnez, here.

Das Dateninstitut kommt. Die Gemeinwohlorientierung bleibt fraglich

 OKF, here.

Enforcing competition law in digital markets and ecosystems

 Portuguese Competition Authority, here.

The EU’s Investigation Into Microsoft Teams: A Preliminary Assessment

 C. Bergqvist, here.

Transparency Unveiled: Access to Information in Digital Markets Act Proceedings at Member State Level – The German and Austrian Experience

 J. Helminger, here.

Transparency Unveiled: Access to Information in Digital Markets Act Proceedings on EU Level

 L. Hornkohl, here.

Instagram e Facebook usam suas fotos e textos para treinar IA: por que a prática está sendo questionada?

 Globo, here.

Industrial Policy Is a Nostalgic Pipe Dream

 J. Galbraith, here.

Global Digital Compact - and the rest of us

 Technologists, here.

MaCCI 2024 Conference on merger control

 Videos here.

BEREC’s input to the EC public consultation on the White Paper “How to master Europe’s digital infrastructure needs?”

 Here.

ICN Workshop on Sustainability

 Video here.

Antimonopoly Antitrust Metrics

 H. Hovenkamp, here.

Four Strengths of the Government’s Lawsuit Against Live Nation-Ticketmaster:

 M. Carrier, Part I and II

The unanimous overhaul of the Competition Act is a big win for Canadians

 The Globe and Mail, here.

The Roberts Supreme Court’s Decision on Netchoice Was Righteous

 Z. Teachout, here.

Promoting Innovation Ecosystems in Antitrust: A Framework for Antitrust Analysis Applied to Emerging AI Technologies

 Roosevelt Institute, here.

A call to action from civil society’s frontlines

 Siaisa Place, here.

Sanzione alla Figc per abuso di posizione dominante

 AGCM, qui.

Facial Recognition Technology: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance

 National Academies, here.

DMA, One Year On: Taking Stock of the EU’s Attempts to Rein In Big Tech

 BotPopuli, here.

Delivery Hero may face significant fine due to antitrust violations and intends to increase corresponding provision

 EQS, here.

AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire

 

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Podcast here.

Publicité en ligne : la CNIL se prépare aux évolutions des modèles d’affaires

 CNIL, ici.

Europe needs competition, not national champions

 Brookings, here.

Commission requests information to Amazon under the Digital Services Act

 EC, here.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Map Launch

 UCL IIPP, here.

Google considered blocking Safari users from accessing its new AI features, report says

 9To5Mac, here.

The Global Benefits of Reining in Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s Power

 K. Montoya, D. Hanley, here.

GEN AI: TOO MUCH SPEND, TOO LITTLE BENEFIT?

 Goldman Sachs, here.

Epic Games CEO promises to ‘fight’ Apple over ‘absurd’ changes

 TechCrunch, here.

The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy

 D. Solove, W. Hartzog, here.

Data Act: ‘beyond motherhood and apple pie’

 M. Guglielmetti, here.

Enforcing competition law in digital markets and ecosystems: Policy challenges and options

 UNCTAD Secretariat, here.

The Shareholder Supremacy

 Zitron, here.

The Belgian Competition Authority fines Securitas, G4S and Seris over 47 million euros to sanction their participation in a complex cartel scheme in the private security sector

 Here.