China: Action Plan on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence

  Here.

 

Scenario 1

 

 
  

Scenario 2

 

How will it unfold? Too early to call. But where does the EU fit in? One suspects the Global South would rather place its trust in Brussels’ regulatory safeguards than in Beijing’s overtures. Will Europe seize the moment, or squander it amid Trump-fuelled distractions and further dependencies?

Digital platforms and competition in Australia

Evidence that the EuroStack debate 
was sort of liked by Big Tech? A useful distraction? 

 Mandala Partners, here.

[Paid by Apple - and actually instructive]

Keynote address at ABA Banking Conference

 ACCC, here.

"There's absolutely no commitment on digital regulation"

 

European Commission brings use of Microsoft 365 into compliance with data protection rules for EU institutions and bodies

 EDPS, here.

(Tutto fa brodo?) 

Commission preliminarily finds Temu in breach of the Digital Services Act in relation to illegal products on its platform

 PR, here. 

Will we see more DSA and DMA action before the summer break? 

Seems like things are getting complicated much sooner than we expected.

   A. Safdari, here.

Investigation under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation into Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) proposed acquisition of Covestro

 EC, here.

The Higher Regional Court Cologne Barks Up The Wrong (Data) Tree: The Court’s Interpretation of Article 5(2)(b) DMA in the Meta AI Case

 L. Hornkohl, A. Ribera Martinez, here.

Digital Sovereignity: It's Complicated

  R. Benjon

 

The best response to US tariffs would be for the EU to eliminate its own internal barriers to trade

 S. Nixon, here. 

[Serious question, need to find out: why can't I get a loan to buy a flat in Rome from, let's say, a Dutch bank?]

Guerre commerciale : avec des droits de douane à 15%, l’Union européenne prête à passer sous les fourches caudines américaines

 

Furculae Caudinae 
Beautiful, not touristy at all part of Italy 

  Libé, ici. 

AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor

 

  M. Mazzucato, F. Gernone, here. 

"Plagiarize Plagiarize 
Let no one else's work evade your eyes ✅
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes 
So don't shade your eyes 
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize” 

- just to a whole new scale?

 

Another, complex conversation 

Fueling US digital exports growth into the EU, you say?

One gone, for now, two blissfully absent 
- and a happily married couple!

  Peacock Tariff Consulting, here.  

 

When news were still allowed to come to Harvard...

 Video here. 

Silicon Valley's "profound hatred of antitrust" and Lina Khan made things much worse

Paul Krugman talking with Henry Farrell, here.

And, if I may 

Our view on digital sovereignty

 M. Bracken, here.  

For previous episodes see here and these three weekend thoughts by R. Benjon. 

AI Slop: in need of a definition (what social scientists are ultimately for)

 

US AI chips will *help* power [EU] AI gigafactories and *help* the US to maintain their technological edge

Details will matter...

 U. Leyen (von der), here. 

Norm Externalization through the Delhi and Beijing Effects

 Tech Global Institute, here.