Summit on European Digital Sovereignty.

 

Berlin 18 November and livestreamed here.

The DMA sits at the table - it isn't on the menu. 

We wonnen de rechtszaak tegen Meta

 Bits of Freedom, hier.

Kent v Apple: Collective actions and the future of platform competition

 T. Jones, here.

24. Spirituosen-Forum des BSI: „Künstliche Intelligenz – Gamechanger oder Hype?“

 BSI, hier.

User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies

 J. King et al., here.

The "end of capitalism” or, rather, an intensification of capitalistic tendencies?

 Ask Tommaso Valletti and others, here.

"Ordinary folk in the streets of London" at 16:00 totally impressive. 

Interplay between the AI Act and the EU digital legislative framework

 EP Study, here.

District Court of Amsterdam Prohibits Meta from Using Personal Data for AI Training – Private Enforcement of DMA?

 S. Louven, here.

How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls

 CJR, here.

Développement durable : l'Autorité publie des orientations informelles relatives à la création d’une plateforme de collecte et partage de données relatives à l’empreinte carbone des fournisseurs dans le secteur de la grande distribution

 Adlc, ici.

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative

 Euractiv, here. 

[Added value: no annoying, unsolicited "AI integration"] 

“Simplifying” European AI Regulation: An Evidence-based White Paper

 P. Hacker et al., here. 

Die Internetwirtschaft in Deutschland 2025-2030: Zukunftsperspektiven für digitale Infrastrukturen

 Arthur Little, hier. 

Antitrust Review Episode 49: In Conversation With Hiroo Iwanari

 Podcast here. 

Merger Guidelines Consultation

 Factual Summary, here.

Fusionskontrolle im Wandel: Neue Instrumente und veränderte Rahmenbedingungen?

 Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Competition Policy as a Driver of Economic Integration An EU Perspective | Lecture by Inge Bernaerts

 Video here.

‘4Ps’ updates to the CMA’s mergers guidance (CMA2) and mergers notice template

 CMA (?), here.

More full-time lobbyists influencing the EU’s digital policies, than there are MEPs in the European Parliament. What could possibly go wrong?

 Corporate Europe, here.

A Rights-Based Digital Fairness Act

 EDRi, here.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

 BBC, here.

[Disclosure: my better half worked 20+ y. for the EBU] 

Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University

 M. Kenney, M. Lincoln, here.

EU Big Tech Laws: An Emerging Public Utilities Regulation

A. de Streel, here.

Judge sides with online publishers in Google ad tech antitrust case

 USAToday, here.

Generative AI and the EUDPR. Orientations for ensuring data protection compliance w hen using Generative AI systems.

 EDPS, here.

PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT

 TechCrunch, here. 

Investing in the EU Sovereign Tech Fund

 OFE, here. 

[Disclosure: Fellow] 

The Dark Side of Computational Antitrust: When AI is Used to Evade the Law

 

T. Davies, here. 

The European Commission Can and Must Act on Excessive Pricing

 A. Blankertz et al., here. 

Ireland, Meta, and lobbying: J'accuse!

 ICCL, here. 

 

 

2025 Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality

 L. Kahn, here (On Substack).

"Those others who said years ago what he’s telling you right now? They’re troublemakers, disgruntled outsiders obsessed with scandal and grievance. He gets why you ignored them. Hey, he did, too." ]

UK tribunal rules Apple abused dominant position in app markets

 PPC Land, here. 

Ryan Calo Wants to Change the Relationship Between Law and Technology

 

TechPolicyPress, Podcast here. 

Government rejects AI copyright law exception, upholds creator rights

 Mi3, here. 

Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?,

 Future Media, here.

Knowledge, technology, and growth: Joel Mokyr, Nobel laureate

 CEPR, here. 

Why they haven't matched him with a 'formal economist' or two dealing with innovation/knowledge for real (such as evolutionary economics), I wonder...

Empfehlungen für starke KI-Infrastruktur und digitale Souveränität Deutschlands - Auftaktsitzung der Expertenkommission „Wettbewerb und KI“

 BMWE, hier. 

Holding my breath ;-) 

Unlocking contestability and fairness in cloud and AI: A Review of the Digital Markets Act

 

Article 19, here (honoured that I could contribute to this). 

Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age

 UCL, here. 

See also here.  

Ryan Calo | Law and technology: A methodical approach

Video, here. 

Prompted NotebookLM (sigh) deep dive here, for those who like the genre.  

Bravi Aussies, what about our EU and national 'enforcers'?

 Reuters, here.

A topic for the next DMA High Level Group too? 

Orientierungshilfe zu datenschutzrechtlichen Besonderheiten generativer KI-Systeme mit RAG-Methode

 DSK, hier.

Google Search - A View from the Counsel's Table

 Video here.

[🙋 was the online Q on GenAI - thank you for the answer!]

A refreshing, 'irreverent perspective': Todd Davies

 SCiDA Podcast, here. 

Code shouldn't be law. 

How Android Auto reshapes the law of refusal to deal (and what it means in practice)

P. Ibáñez Colomo, here.

Who would've thought ;-)( here) ? 

An Innovation Nobel in Economics

 L. Kiesling, here.

AI, ANTITRUST, AND THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS

 M. Stucke, here.

Commission preliminarily finds TikTok and Meta in breach of their transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act

 EC, here.

Is ChatGPT Atlas safe? What you should know before you download it

 Proton, here.

CAT: Apple abused its dominant position

 Ruling here.

Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI

 OSCE, here. 

Directing Economic Growth: A common good approach

 M. Mazzucato, here. 

Commission carries out unannounced antitrust inspections in the ski equipment sector

 EC, here.

Amer here. 

The FSFE defends interoperability from Apple at the EU’s highest court

 Here.

Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue

 WSJ, here.

Will GenAI Break Google’s Dominance in Search?

 ProMarket, here.

Ever heard of the App Fair Project on iOS? Precisely.

 DMA Complaint by A19 and GFF, here.

KI-Assistent auf Kosten der digitalen Souveränität

 NWZOnline, hier.

ChatGPT Atlas: A DMA casse tête?

 Guardian, here.

Rezension der Festschrift für Wolfgang Kerber „Wettbewerb, Recht und Wirtschaftspolitik“

 J. Mendelsohn, hier.

NotebookLM-generated easy intro here.

Integration von KI-Anwendungen in Suchmaschinen und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Meinungsvielfalt

 Die Medienanstalten, hier.

The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn from China

 Here.

The Future of Democracy

 A19, OMI, livestream here.

Innovation: missed chance, for now.

 

What about "real" innovation economics? 

Panel 5 - The Gate Keepers’ Gate Keeper: GDPR and the Digital Markets Act.

 CEDPO, here. 

The Antitrust Case Against AI Overviews

 M. Singh, here.

Pope: In this age of communication, nobody can say 'I did not know'

 

Vatican News, here.

Cartography of generative AI

 Here.

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends

 ChinaTalk, here.

Antitrust Law and Oligarchy: The Intersection of Markets, Democracy, and Power

 Here.

Timing was, well, bad (into Friday evening my time, European after all and cherish my off-work time) - followed 1/3 of it and was very stimulating: hopefully there'll be a recording soon. 

AI Acquihires: Competition Risks, Talent Battles and Economic Spillovers

 

https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/

CEPR, here.

I particularly appreciated Jonathan Kanter's opening remark, which subtly questioned part of the very premise of the webinar: perhaps what we now need less are abstract theoretical models, and rather more empirical grounding. Even those participants steeped in theory conceded that the empirical dimension has been somewhat lacking.

Secondly, the Commission’s representative made a valuable point: we should move beyond our preoccupation with “killer acquisitions” and “acquihires” to examine broader structural trends at the "wholesale" level. In particular, attention should turn to the emerging web of quasi-trusts formed through cross-investments etc. among major players. This evolving network of reciprocal stakes has become almost too intricate to trace.

Finally, my Students and I suggest that we already look closely at how these firms are positioning themselves also downstream. Google, for instance, is carving out a strong presence in the market for AI-based "learning/curiosity' applications, notably in education. Thus, in class we recently debated how long it may take before Notebook LM becomes enshittified. How can/should the DMA help in this respect? 

Apply AI Strategy

 EC, here.

Japan’s Agile AI Governance in Action: Fostering a Global Nexus Through Pluralistic Interoperability

 CSIS, here.

"Whereas the European Union positions AI strictly as a human tool and thus perceives a risk in AI evaluating humans, Japan is more accepting of a horizontal relationship between humans and AI" where would you prefer to live? 

Google fights to prevent search remedies from inhibiting its AI ambitions

 Here.

Cory Doctorow discusses Enshittification with Lina Khan

 Video here.

Final decision to designate Google as having SMS in general search services, comprising its general search and search advertising activities.

 CMA, here.

DMA Implementation: Two years later...

 Videos here.

THE BITS OF FREEDOM RULING: THE FIRST STEP IN PRIVATE DSA ENFORCEMENT

 Geradin & Co., here.

Fusionskontrolle im Wandel Neue Instrumente und veränderte Rahmenbedingungen?

 Arbeitskreis Kartellrecht, hier.

Feds, Google clash over data sharing as search monopoly remedy takes shape

 CourtHouseNews, here.

OpenAI, unhappy with Judge Mehta's remedies (and much more?), comes to the EU and meets the Commission

Bloomberg, here. 

OpenAI here ("A US federal court last fall condemned Google’s illegal search monopoly, and will soon issue a decision on how to remediate that long-standing monopoly").  

I asked John Sallet about missed remedies and impact on GenAI yesterday at this event 

Listen to him at a previous event here,  

Joint Guidelines on the interplay between the DMA and the GDPR

DMA/GDPR's cercle de lecture 

 Here.

The Italian Tech Week

 Videos here.

Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads

 The Register, here.

A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI

E. Brynjolfsson et al., here. 

The price is wrong! California goes Bob Barker on algorithmic price rigging

 The Register, here.

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement

 R. Jahangir, here.

Algorithmic Antitrust: California's New Pricing Law

 FKKS, here.

AI Act Single Information Platform

EC,  here.

Announcing DTI’s Data Trust Registry

 Here.

How Google's AI Overviews are affecting Australian news websites

 ABC, here.

How to Overturn an Oligarchy

 

M. Stoller, here. 

 

 

 

 

 

On this side of the Atlantic, the CMA: "It is plausible that to the extent Activision content is
added to Game Pass, the price of Game Pass subscriptions may increase
commensurately and therefore the purported benefit from the Merger may not
ultimately accrue to UK consumers to the extent claimed, or even at all" - so: price increase for UK consumers ok, because of added Activision content? 

The Supreme Court didn’t save Google from Epic, and now the clock is ticking

 The Verge, here. 

Market Study on Artificial Intelligence and Competition

Competition Commission of India, here. 

Litigating and Legislating Against Algorithmic Collusion | 2025 Tech Conference

 Video here. 

Fireside Chat with Barry Lynn, Open Markets Institute | 2025 Tech Conference

 Video here. 

2025 Lear Conference: Videos uploaded

 Here.

Teaching material à gogo for your classes, thank you Paolo!

Returning federal antitrust enforcement to a more hands-off approach, the very approach that allowed unchecked market power to take root?

 

Please, don't, Mr. President, here. 

OpenAI’s platform play

 Platformer, here

Italy becomes the first in Europe to set national AI rules

 JDSupra, here.

Action brought on 4 July 2025 – Meta Platforms v Commission (Case T-435/25)

 Here. 

I'd love to intervene 😊  

We Need to Break Up Big AI Before It Breaks Us

 Time, here. 

"Datenschutz (Opt-out statt Opt-in, Innovationsfreundlichkeit)" und weitere 'Weisheiten'

 Hier.

The overlooked front in the browser wars

 DuckDuckGo, here. 

Digital platform regulation: are we all included in the digital economy

 Bruegel, Video here. 

What is a digital ad tax?

 Brookings, here. 

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

 C. Doctorow, here. 

OpenAI promises more ‘granular control’ to copyright owners after Sora 2 generates videos of popular characters

 The Guardian, here. 

Who were those academics and other economists lavishly paid to say this would never happen, BTW?

 

Coordination and Power

 

F. Gernone, here.

This is a very basic AI generated video overview produced by Notebook LM - potentially lowering your barriers to entry (these days, experimenting using it with my Students and also with you, dear Wavesblog Readers). The paper offers antitrust folks still reliant on IO economics a different and original lens through which to view things — and that, in itself, is already something decidedly worthwhile!

Algorithmic pricing and competition in G7 jurisdictions

 OECD, here.

Amazingly timely, thank you! Next week topic...

 

 

Updated Compendium of approaches to improving competition in digital markets

 G7, here.

Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats

 ArsTechnica, here.

Jon Leibowitz and the FTC's role during the early Google Era

 The Monopoly Report, here. 

[Watchers, basically...] 

Court tells Meta to give Dutch users algorithm-free feed option

 DutchNews, here. 

Plumbers, Populists, and the Role of Public Opinion in Antitrust

 S. Sullivan, here. 

FTC accuses Zillow of paying $100 million to ‘dismantle’ Redfin

 The Verge, here. 

ECOSYSTEMS, ANTITRUST ERRORS & THE NUMERATOR BIAS

 Stucke&Ezrachi, here.

Territorial Control of Data and Compute in Generative AI: A New Paradigm of Competitive Advantage

 F. Marty, T. Warin, here.

SCiDA's podcast: Episode 1

 Here. 

Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West

The Maybe, here.  

USA vs Google Ad Tech remèdes : céder ou fermer AdX, une question que se pose Google depuis 2020

 F. Masmi-Dazi, ici.

Meta to mine AI interactions to help target advertising - not in the EU

 FT, here.

Epic Games says Apple’s new install process cuts user drop-offs by 60%

 TechCrunch, here.

An Economy of AI Agents

 G. Hadfield et al., here.

Munich Regional I Court preliminarily indicates OpenAI liable for copyright infringement of song lyrics. Decision on Nov. 11, 2025

 Here.

Are the European TDM Exceptions Applicable to GenAI Training? Despite the Three-Step Test?

 M. Senftleben, here.