Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks

 Nature, here.

Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?

 P. Krugman, here.

[In 2017 (!)  I had the honour of talking about fintech, competition, and the PSD2 to a Brazilian audience - people were genuinely interested in what the EU was doing; now they have outdone us - good for them! Why hasn't the EU achieved more? I've plenty of biased opinions!]

Martijn Snoep: Antitrust & Industrial Policy. Independence or Coordination. Champions. Latest Cases

Tools available to make markets work 

Chez Oles, here. 

Impressive, brave interview. 

 I'm perhaps a bit more positive about the long term impact of the DMA: it's going to evolve (that was the legislators' will), it creates new, important rights for end users and business users, and it is already influencing competition policy in a positive way. But it was never supposed to act in isolation (again, as foreseen by the legislators - see e.g. the HLG). Plenty of potential in many directions...

 

 

Listening to how the ACM has come to see itself as "market designer," I was reminded of this 2017 "no AI" generated image I used at a conference in Brazil (found back by chance while writing this).

UK Regulator Flags Apple’s iOS Browser Engine Ban in Draft SMS Designation

 OWA, here.

Epic Games blasts ‘weak’ plan to break Apple, Google mobile grip

 Developer-Tech, here.

Get DMA Enforcement Back on Track: Our Message to the IMCO Working Group

 Neutralsearch.eu, here.

For a Strategic, European and Competition-Oriented Industrial Policy

 T. Duso et al., here.

The Relationship Between Competition Policy and Industrial Policy in an Era of Structural Change

D. Coyle, here. 

IA : la CNIL finalise ses recommandations sur le développement des systèmes d’IA et annonce ses futurs travaux

 Ici.

Europe Can Build Its Own Social Media

 S. Vogelsang, here.

CMA proposes next steps for improving mobile platforms in the UK

 Here. 

FREEDOM FOR FACTS: For true freedom of expression on online platforms!

Here.

Towards a new ‘agile competition law’ paradigm

 I. Lianos, here.

Best cuisines in the world united to enforce their local DMAs ;-)

F. Chirico from LinkedIn, here.  

PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people

 TechCrunch, here.

[Paypal creating a privately owned infrastructure for cross-border payments?]

Real innovation happens when companies have to compete on merit, not on who can kiss the leader’s ass most effectively

 TechDirt, here.

[Invited by the OECD to speak on competition and innovation, I only wish I’d presented my research findings just as effectively]

Nerd Reich: why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’

 

Decoder, here. 

[What can a humble researcher, middle-aged woman and Italian on top of that, possibly do against what is already a serious threat to our precious democracy in the name of *tech and innovation*? Nothing, I'm afraid. But I'll keep frantically blogging, also a bit outside Wavesblog's traditional core topics - since October 2007, at least until Google starts censoring us here on Blogger ;-)]

The Sound of Reduced Competition? Music, Data, and the UMG/Downtown Merger

Not the usual Competition Commissioner's statement.
Whole-of-Commission Approach? 

EC, here. 

[Dutch company buying an US company, mind you. At any rate, it sounds lkve a no brainer theory of harm]

Amazon to acquire Bee AI wearable that hears every word you say: what could possibly go wrong?

 

BUT we have the DMA

Digit.in, here.

Imagine...we still had competition cops on the beat.

Stating the obvious: Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results

 

Pew Research Center, here. 

South Korea considering "exceptions to exclude app market fees from Google and Apple to minimize concerns over trade friction"

 

Chosun, here. 

South Korea: Local DMA Bill "likely to be put on hold due to pressure from the TRUMP administration"

 S. Lee (from LinkedIn), here. 

"Discovered" by a researcher coming back from vacation? Don't they have civil society active in digital in South Korea?  

Trump Goes to Bat for Big Tech in Global Trade Talks

 

WSJ, here. 

[South Korea - local DMA dropped already? Cautious to say the least.  Brazil - everything you want to know about their draft DMA and "electronic payment practices" aka Fab Pix here].

[I wonder how Brazilians would react if Trump successfully undermined their highly efficient sovereign digital infrastructure for electronic payments].