Thursday, July 24, 2025

The Algorithmic Hand: How Large Language Models Disrupt Competition and Democracy

 A. Küsters, here.

noyb's Pay or Okay report: how companies make you pay for privacy

 Here.

Commission presents template for General-Purpose AI model providers to summarise the data used to train their model *mandatory* mind you

 EC, here

Italy takes Meta, X and LinkedIn to court over unpaid tax

 TechCentral.ie, here

Trump Weighed Nvidia Breakup But Was Told It Would Be ‘Hard’

 Bloomberg, here

Digital Markets Act: Civil society calls for investigation into Alphabet’s non-compliance

 Article 19 et al., here

Activating the full DMA's potential (Episode XX, still only scratching the surface): 

"Article 27
Information by third parties
1. Any third party, including business users, competitors or end-users of the core platform services listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9), as well as their representatives, may inform the national competent authority of the Member State, enforcing the rules referred to in Article 1(6), or the Commission directly, about any practice or behaviour by gatekeepers that falls within the scope of this Regulation."

But (and this is one of the issues with the DMA, not the it wasn't mentioned during the negotiations):

"2. The...Commission shall have full discretion as regards the appropriate measures and are under no obligation to follow-up on the information received"
 

 

Daseinsvorsorge in der Plattformökonomie

 Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, hier.

How big tech is force-feeding us AI

 Blood in the Machine, here.

YOUR STRENGTH IS YOUR AGGREGATE GDP × YOUR MOTIVATION TO STAY UNIFIED": JOANNA BRYSON ON AI, REGULATION, AND GLOBAL COOPERATION

 GulanMedia, here.

Unpacking Trump’s AI Action Plan [Everything You Expected, Just a Bit Worse]

 

TechPolicy, here.