EU pushes back against US effort to change bloc’s tech rules

 Bloomberg, here. 

Merriam-Webster 2025 Word of the Year: Slop

 Here.

DSGVO-Reform: Rechtssicherheit und Innovation gehen Hand in Hand – Anpassungen für KI erforderlich

 DSK, hier. 

Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly

 L. Lasota, D. Presutti, J. Palepu, here. 

THE GREAT UNRAVELLING

 FEPS, here.

Keynote opening Digital Commons EDIC: Moving beyond the Digital Uncommons

 BertHub.eu, here. 

A Pragmatic Win, Not a Structural Fix, in South Africa’s Deal with Big Tech

 M. Markovitz, here. 

Final Report, here. 

Who are Tech Experts and What Can They Bring to Competition Enforcement?

 T. Davies, here. 

"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

 Blood in the Machine, here. 

Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect

 

NHK, here. 

At the A19 DMA Conference last month, we had a very good presentation on this!  

Volksbanken ermöglichen iPhone-Zahlungen ohne Apple Pay

 WiWo, hier. 

Australia’s social media ban carries health warning for Big Tech investors

 FT, here. 

Google and Fortnite make peace

 Times of India, here. 

Apple loses its appeal of a scathing contempt ruling in iOS payments case

 ArsTechnica, here. 

Information manipulation in the age of generative artificial intelligence

 EPRS, here. 

Economic Planning in the Anthropocene

 Conference, Videos here. 

The Antitrust Case Against Airbnb

 The Sling, here. 

Is iRobot's demise a sign that competition and innovation in the market for robot vacuum cleaners *are indeed working*? #Discuss

 

Who's innovating here? What about data protection? The whole dilemma...

This consent judgment risks creating a blueprint for multinational companies to evade regulatory penalties in Nigeria

 I. Peters, here. 

The ACM has *just* been given powers to enforce the P2B Regulation [check: applicable since 2020] and you want to repeal it?

 Here.