Monopoly Round-Up: The Incredible Shrinking Trump Antitrust Enforcers

 M. Stoller, here.

After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials

 

Weddings in Venice are notoriously expensive

   WSJ, here.

Figma looks to raise nearly $1 billion as it kicks off its IPO roadshow

 

TechCrunch, here. 

The abandoned Adobe/Figma merger? Hats off to the CMA. It deserves a pat on the back, not a muzzle.

Does Using In-Copyright Works as Training Data Infringe?

 P. Samuelson, here.

Deregulation Swings the Pendulum Toward Financial Crash

 The Prospect, here.

The Case for Europe’s Backing of Digital Civil Society Groups

 M. Scott, here.

X slams French criminal probe over alleged algorithm ‘manipulation’

 FT, here.

From Digital Feudalism to Digital Sovereignty

 UCL IIPP, bog and video here.

"here’s the tension: for Bria, we may already be past that point. In her view, interoperability without control is an illusion...The Bria–Bracken disagreement isn’t just academic. It reflects the real policy dilemmas facing governments today" essential discussion, listening to it again soon. 

From economy of occupation to economy of genocide

 F. Albanese, here.