Google fights to prevent search remedies from inhibiting its AI ambitions

 Here.

Cory Doctorow discusses Enshittification and 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

 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.