Meta, condenada a pagar 479 millones de euros a la prensa digital española por competencia desleal al infringir el Reglamento Europeo de Protección de Datos

 Aquí.

Digital Markets Act enforcement: Impact and next steps

 

Article 19 DMA Conference, Programme here. 

I thought it was a bit sci-fi, while writing the paper...

 

Europe: Investigations into cloud computing under DMA a welcome move

 Article 19, here.

Indeed, here.  

OpenAI strikes deal with Intuit to plug personal financial data into ChatGPT

 FT, here. 

A PROGRESSIVE ROADMAP FOR EXPANDING EUROPEAN DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY

 C. Rikap, here. 

Commission launches market investigations on cloud computing services under the Digital Markets Act

 EC, here. 

Booking.com taken to court

 CCC, here. 

Competing Legal Futures – “Commodification Bets” All the Way From Personal Data to AI

 M. Giraudo et al., here.

"Our" AI&fun panel at the Article 19 DMA Conference

Now that the programme has been officially released, I can say a word about Thursday’s panel, where I shall present a paper that is highly tentative: when I wrote it, it verged on science fiction, yet events have already overtaken it. One striking aspect of the panel is that we have four papers on artificial intelligence, which is noteworthy in itself. The perspectives are varied yet complementary. And while today the Commission opened three investigations in the cloud sector, our discussion moves further downstream: we consider also whether AI-related services should be expressly recognised as core platform services, which DMA obligations genuinely already apply to AI-related services , whether they can be regarded as adequate, whether the DMA should be even more ex-ante, etc.

I suspect the session will be lively.  

Cloudflare CEO says Google is abusing its monopoly in search to feed its AI

 Fortune, here.

Replicate is joining Cloudflare

 Cloudflare, here. 

The Court fails to provide remedies to prevent Google from repeating its same illegal monopolization of artificial intelligence-related markets

 AELP, here. 

Google: Our Frankly Modest Proposal

 Here. 

[Gearing for a fight?] 

Rebalancing Europe’s Digital Power: Decentralisation as a practical route to Digital Sovereignty

 EDI, here. 

Anatomy of a Franco-German tech misfire

 Politico.eu, here. 

How to break up firms well

 Rebalance Now, here. 

It’s central planning, Silicon Valley-style

 M. Stoller, here. 

Interview Nextcloud - 1ère partie - GAIA-X est mort, vive EuroStack

 Clubic, ici.

German court rules Google must pay €572M for violating antitrust rules in price comparison sector

 TechCrunch, here.

Idealo selbst hier.

Team SCiDA here.

Breaking Down the EU’s Investigation into Google’s Search Policy

 M. Kikwood, here.

With a bit of mise en abyme, apologies!

Messaging Interoperability: WhatsApp enables third-party chats for users in Europe

 Meta itself, here.

A bit emotional myself, what  about you? 

Idealo vs. Google: Suchmaschine zu 465 Millionen Euro Schadenersatz verurteilt

 Heise.de, hier.

Google offers ad tech tweaks in EUR3 billion antitrust fight

 TheEdgeSingapore, here. 

Kann uns Trump das Internet abschalten?

 Ja? Nein? Antwort hier. 

Neues Bündnis fordert mehr Engagement für offene Netzwerke

 Hier. 

Aus der Plattformnische[n?] in den Mainstream

 Agora, hier. 

A Return of Industrial Policies? Only a Partial and Dystopic One

 G. Dosi, here. 

Eurosky Live

 Here.

Lina chez Jon Stewart

 Here.

Innovation durch Regulierung?

 Hier. 

Autoridade da Concorrência: 2025 Lisbon Conference

 Videos here. 

Just in time for a relaxing Friday class: watching (and commenting on) a couple of panels with my Students tomorrow 🍿🍿🍿

Facebook Marketplace gets new collaborative and social features, Meta AI integrations

 Here. 

Commission opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by energy drink manufacturer Red Bull

 Here. 

Commission opens investigation into potential Digital Markets Act breach by Google in demoting media publishers' content in search results

 EC, here. 

Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you

 TechCrunch, here. 

Making Platforms Accountable

 ORG, here. 

The dilemmas of delegation

 Ada Lovelace Institute, here.

Discussing a DMA draft paper next week in Brussels exploring related themes...

Lina Khan’s populist plan for New York: Cheaper hot dogs (and other things)

 Semafor, here.

Brazil’s Calibrated Revolution in Digital Competition

 V. Oliveira Fernandez, here.

Sovereignty-as-a-service: How big tech companies co-opt and redefines digital sovereignty

 R. Grohmann et al., here.

EU developers don't pass on App Store fee savings to users, says Apple

 AppleInsider, here.

Where to start? 

EU readies fresh investigation into Google over news publisher rankings

 FT, here. 

Irish watchdog opens content moderation probe on Elon Musk's X

 Euractiv, here. 

A new DMA Fan, you all: Sir Tim Berners-Lee!

 The Verge, here. 

Germany’s Tech Betrayal: How We’re Selling Our Sovereignty to US Giants

 B. Korz, here. 

Artificial Intelligence and Competitive Dynamics in Downstream Markets

 OECD Background Note, here. 

Competition in AI infrastructure

 OECD Background Note, here. 

Race for Compute

 Accel, here. 

2025-11-10 Berlin Freedom Conference: The Role of AI

 Here.

Music rights group scores landmark legal victory in copyright battle with OpenAI

 Charting GenAI, here. 

Landgericht München I hier and hierTranslation here (H/T Tobias Vossberg)

WebSummit 2025

 Day 1, here.

Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom

 Politico.eu, here.

The New Geoeconomics of Hard Power Requires New Tools. Will Europe Update?

 C. Caffarra, here. 

Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping

 TechCrunch, here.

From Attention Merchants to Intention Architects: The invisible infrastructure reshaping human curiosity

 S. Fang, here.

The Man Who Tracks Silicon Valley’s ‘Nerd Reich’

 The Tyee, here.

EU Commission internal draft would wreck core principles of the GDPR

 Noyb, here. 

Building an independent, open and healthy digital environment for European consumers

By Robin...

 EP IMCO, here and here. 

 

Réconcilier concurrence et politique industrielle

 Ici.

OpenAI asked Trump administration to expand Chips Act tax credit to cover data centers

 TechCrunch, here.

CAMBRIDGE TAXONOMY OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY RISK

Here.. 

Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age

 UCL + Tommaso, here.

Leaked Digital Package on Simplification

 Here.

Tim Wu with Lina Khan: The Age of Extraction

 Video here.

Philippe Aghion, une trajectoire intellectuelle : grand entretien avec le prix Nobel d’Économie 2025

 Le Grand Continent, ici.

How Many More Cloud Scares Does Europe Need?

 R. Berjon, here.

Disruptive Innovation and Antitrust

 P. Larouche, A. de Streel, here.

Topic of my PhD in economics at fn. 6 

The Meta Fraud Tithe; AI Is Out-Negotiating SaaS

 AdExchanger, here.

Better Access: Data for the Common Good

 KGI, here. 

Google's Hidden Empire

 A. Blankertz, B. Rock, N. Shaxson, here. 

The 40-year economic mistake that let Google conquer (and enshittify) the world

 C. Doctorow, here. 

L’Autorité sanctionne Doctolib à hauteur de 4 665 000 euros pour avoir abusé de sa position dominante dans le secteur de la prise de rendez-vous médicaux en ligne et des solutions de téléconsultation médicale

 Adlc, ici. 

Gene Burrus on Google, AI, and the Future of Antitrust

 Podcast here.

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light

 404 Media, here. 

India AI: Governance Guidelines

 Here. 

Microsoft superintelligence team promises to keep humans in charge

 Semafor, here. 

[So much wrong about this title that I wouldn't know where to start...]

The Era of Answer Engines

 Ofcom, here. 

MAGENTIC MARKETPLACE: AN OPEN-SOURCE ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDYING AGENTIC MARKETS

 Microsoft, here.

How Many More Cloud Scares Does Europe Need?

 R. Berjon, here.

FIRST BLOOM: INCREASED CONSUMER CHOICE AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF THE DMA The E

 BEUC, here.

Legal Corner: Apple’s “notarisation” – blocking software freedom of developers and users!

 FSFE, here.

AirPods Live Translation feature coming to the EU next month

 9to5Mac, here.

How long before the next "product can't possibly be launched in the EU because of annoying digital regulation"?

Amazon v. Perplexity

 Complaint here.

And what does Perplexity say? Here.

DOJ lists ‘innumerable’ ways Google could maintain an ad tech monopoly

 The Current, here.

Breaking: Google and Epic propose settlement to end years-long legal battle in the US

 AndroidAuthority, here.

The Authoritarian Stack

 Here.

AdTech: DoJ Proposed Remedies

 Here.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will Daten aus US-Clouds holen

 Heise.de, hier.

Europe’s deep-tech engine could spur $1 trillion in economic growth

McKinsey (cough), here.

The future of merger control...

 ICLE, Video here.

Tech gatekeepers quizzed on data handling amid AI rollout

 MLex, here. 

The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state

 M. Wong, C. Warzel, here. 

Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps

 A. Noroozian et al., here. 

Private Enforcement of the DMA: Germany Takes the Lead with the 1&1 Mail & Media/Google (Gmail) Case

 J. Tamayo, here.

Did Google not want to allow access to OpenAI for competitive reasons?

 Quantable, here.

Open Access & Copyright in the age of AI

 Hertie, Bocconi, here

Better protection for players of video games

 ACM, Position Paper, here.

Google/AGCM-Enel X

 CdS- Final Cut, here.

Fellowship „Internationale Digitalpolitik“ - Wir suchen deine Ideen für die Internationale Digitalpolitik!

 Hier.

Traumopportunity!

Google dessine le monde : faut-il s’inquiéter ? Cartographie, pouvoir et dépendance numérique

 Avec Sébastien Soriano (!), ici.

Prix nobel de l'économie 2025 (grillé) à l'Assemblée nationale

 Vidéo ici. 

Débat intéressant car le néo-schumpétérisme à la Aghion rencontre ici le populisme économique à la française, tant à droite qu’à gauche. Les autorités de concurrence devraient également y prêter attention : il ne suffit pas d’écarter ces voix en les qualifiant d’économiquement illettrées, ni de se retrancher derrière quelques écrits et affirmer que toutes les implications d’un modèle n’ont pas été pleinement prises en compte. 

Alors qu’aux États-Unis, le mouvement néo-brandeisien a en partie intégré des revendications populistes et tenté de les traduire en actions concrètes de politique de la concurrence, en Europe nous en sommes restés bien éloignés jusqu’à présent. Les temps changeraient-ils ? Il existe une soif de réponses concrètes à de véritables problèmes ; c’est, en fin de compte, de cela que dépend la légitimité démocratique de la politique de concurrence. 

How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise

 

NYTimes, here. 

Determining Which Researchers Can Collect Public Data Under the DSA

D. Keller, here. 

Data Sharing Guidelines

 ACM, here.

[Very useful also for teaching purposes! We worked extensively on the Data Act this semester - a bit too late for us though, we have since moved to other topics]