Wikimedia, the commons, and the new AI knowledge loop

 OpenFuture, here.

Guidelines on transparency obligations for providers and deployers of AI systems

 EC, here.

Judge halts Paramount’s $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states

 ArsTechnica, here.

IA agentique et protection des données personnelles : équation à inconnues multiples pour les utilisateurs

 CIAN, ici.

Comment Bigard, qui a avalé Charal et ses concurrents, dicte les règles de l’abattage aux éleveurs bovins

 Le Monde, ici.

YouTube may lose EU liability shield for videos on partnered channels

 Courthousenews, here.

Competitiveness of the Banking Sector and the Single Market in Banking

 EC, here.

Case DMA.100209 – SP – Alphabet – Article 6(11)

here. 

CASE DMA.100220 | Alphabet - OS - Google Android - Art. 6(7) – SP – AI

 Decision here.

Mental health of young people in a digital era

 EPRS, here.

AI and democracy: the right to resist optimization

 A. Tang, here.

Spaghetti Revolving Doors à la Meloni

The leadership of Italy’s Competition Authority has just been entrusted to a figure whose family background and institutional trajectory are deeply rooted in the Italian extreme right. Former Clearly Gottlieb, who has been representing Google & Co. 

Now we watch.

Agents d’IA : l’Autorité de la concurrence rend son avis sur le fonctionnement concurrentiel du secteur des agents d’intelligence artificielle

 Adlc, ici.

Program: The gaps in the prime minister’s big AI speech

 ABC, here.

Data Sovereignty Doesn’t Mean Data Isolationism

 L. Belli, here.

Tech's legal nemesis opens up on threat to Google's shield

 Future Media Podcast, here.

The Friends We’ve Made 2: Changes from the Draft

 J. Daum, here. 

Rapport de mission relatif au statut des productions de l’intelligence artificielle

 MdlC, ici.

Et si nous migrions des services cloud ? Le PEReN mène l’expérience

PEReN, ici.

Google is better at playing this game

 The Verge, here.

Like the Red Queen, the DMA in the AI age must run as fast as it can merely to remain in the same place.

Commission provides guidance to Google for AI interoperability on Android and sharing of Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act - EC, here.

Much tbd. Decisions not yet available, just a few thoughts for now.

The Article 6(7) specification proceeding may represent a transitional stage in DMA enforcement. The functional capabilities identified by the Commission—invocation, contextual awareness, the performance of actions and access to system resources—increasingly characterise the AI-assistant layer rather than the operating system as such. As AI assistants become the primary interface through which users access digital ecosystems, enforcement may therefore need to move from regulating operating-system interoperability to regulating AI assistants as core platform services in their own right.

Such a shift may already be possible under the existing DMA. Virtual assistants are expressly included among the categories of core platform services, and that concept could be interpreted functionally and in technologically neutral terms. This would be consistent with the General Court’s recent judgment in Apple, which rejected an understanding of a core platform service determined by the particular device or operating system through which it is provided, focusing instead on the common function performed by the service.

Should the Commission consider that interpretation legally uncertain, however, it should pursue the safer legislative route: initiating the procedures required to recognise generative and agentic AI assistants explicitly as a distinct category of core platform service. The DMA itself provides for investigations into new digital services and for periodic reconsideration of the existing CPS list, including through legislative proposals. Digital regulation cannot preserve its relevance by standing still. To borrow from the Red Queen, it must do all the running it can merely to remain in the same place; otherwise, the DMA risks becoming not the framework governing the emerging digital ecosystem, but an archaeological layer buried beneath it.

Publishing Has a Hologram Problem. And It’s Growing.

 LitHub, here.

Die Cyber-Spezialisten des Bundes kehren Microsoft den Rücken

 Republik.ch, hier.

Europe 2031 is a bet, not a forecast

 F. Kaltheuner, here.

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

 The Register, here.

Artificial Intelligence markets: recent developments and competition issues

OECD, here.

Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

 ArsTechnica, here.

Pay for Half: A Better Remedy for Google Search

 A. Cooper et al., here.

DMA quartet against Google played soon?

 FT, here.

Epic/Google Settlement: so sprach Nancy Rose

 Here.

Rapport de la commission d’enquête sur nos vulnérabilités et dépendances numériques

 Assemblée nationale, ici.

EC decides to refer the acquisition of certain assets of SFR by Iliad to France

 Decision here. 

ZAK erlässt erstmalig Bescheide gegen KI-Angebote von Google und Perplexity

 Gut so, hier.

Finish (and perfect) the DMA job, Madam President

 

Publishers and Authors File Class Action Lawsuit Against Google for Willful Copyright Infringement to Develop Gemini AI Models

 Way to go, here.

Entwurf eines Zwölften (!) Gesetzes zur Änderung des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen und anderer Gesetze (12. GWB-Novelle)

 Hier.

Reconciling AI Innovation With Copyright Values – Why Reliance on Individual Licences is not Enough

 M. Senftleben, here.

AI Office publishes frontier AI expert findings on EU competitiveness, sovereignty and security

 EU Experts, here.

DMA: Past, Present, and Future

Antitrust Insight, here. 

Generative AI Is an [Economic Efficiency and] Engineering Disaster

 A. Reisner, here. . 

Over The Edge 2.0: what independent researchers found about browser choice on Windows

 Mozilla, here.

Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week

 The Verge, here.

Little Tech Association

 Here. 

Special panel report: "Child Safety Online: Protecting and Empowering Minors in a Digital world"

 Here.

Countering the AI Arms Race: Lessons from Philanthropy

 MacArthur Foundation, here.

What kind of incentives are we creating for the future of journalism, entertainment, and original content

 C. Pedigo, here.

At Politico Tech Week I argued this isnthe type of questions useful economic thinking should deal with - forget Industrial Organization, which is mostly only a dangerous distraction. 

Alba on the General Court's recent ruling rejecting Apple's appeal on its designation decision

 Here.

Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash

 BBC, here.

CREATED AND SCALED IN EUROPE

 EIC, here.

Dreading your next teaching semester in the AI age? AI-resilient pedagogy might help

 U. Chicago, Law School, here.

I subscribe to many of the points made here. 

However, devices are great to take notes. Condemning students to the use of pen and paper is anachronistic at best. I'd erect barricades to restore the right to use my pad and e-pen in the classroom!

The public deserves socially beneficial technology in return for its AI investment

 S. Wachter, here.

Instagram, Facebook failing EU's digital rules by hooking teens

 Euractiv, here.

Letter: Ireland should recuse itself from key EU negotiations

 FT, here.

Eine wettbewerbsorientierte Wirtschaftspolitik für die KI-Transformation

 Monopolkommission, hier.

Guidelines 02/2026 on Anonymisation

 EDPB, here.

Commission accepts binding commitments by SAP to address competition concerns about services for its popular business management software

 EC, here.

European “AI Maximalists” (and their Masters) Worry About EuroStack

 Eurostack, here.

For IO economists and consultants only? What could possibly go wrong?

Theories of dynamic harm

• Giulio Federico, Oxera, Project Director for the Study
• Chiara Fumagalli, Bocconi University
• Nancy Rose, MIT
• Michele Polo, Bocconi University
• Laurent Eymard, BRG

here.

Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

 AdWeek, here.

Towards digital autonomy

 ACM & Co., here.

A gatekeeper cannot transform a challenge to designation into a general anticipatory attack on the whole DMA regulatory regime.

 Yours, EU GC here. 

Also extremely interesting: "Since Apple has been unsuccessful, it must be ordered to pay the costs incurred by the Commission and Coalition for App Fairness, in accordance with the form of order sought by them."

Top:  "the EU legislature intended to prevent the classification of a service under the DMA from varying according to the technological choices made by the gatekeeper" - technology neutrality. E.g., relevant legal question: does an AI assistant perform the function of a virtual assistant under the DMA?

Re EECC: hat the Court anticipated possible Apple's moves like a well-chosen national proceeding (before the BNetzA?) that generates a preliminary reference on Article 2(7) - eventually produce a CJEU ruling binding across both regimes?

L’ÉPILOGUE DE L’AFFAIRE APPLE DEVANT LA COUR DE CASSATION : UNE RECHERCHE D’ÉQUILIBRE DANS L’ENCADREMENT DES ÉCOSYSTÈMES NUMÉRIQUES

 H. Cowderoy, ici.

INTEROPERABILIDADE COMO VETOR CONCORRENCIAL: UM PARALELO ENTRE A LEI DO MERCADO DIGITAL DA UNIÃO EUROPEIAE A LEI BRASILEIRA DE SISTEMAS DE PAGAMENTOS

 N. Giacomazzo Viccari, aqui. 

The State of the AI Economy

 EV, EV

AI & Market Power

 Fellows of the European AI & Society Fund, here

Google Android: the Court of Justice upholds Google’s fine of around €4.1 billion

 CJEU, here.

Judging from the press release, this is a victory on every front. And, this time, quite literally without appeal. Whether EU competition law can still be rescued and made more effective is another matter, but it should at least put some courage back into our enforcers and policy makers!

Favourite sentence so far "This applies all the more where the conduct at issue does not lend itself to a quantitative, price-based analysis".

Least favourite: BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation should bear its own legal costs. If the EU is serious about civil society as part of its enforcement infrastructure the economics of standing before its courts deserve the same scrutiny as the substance argued there. The courts anchors liability in consumer harm (e.g., para. 414 on diversity of information sources) but their representatives see nothing of the €4.125 billion fine and have to bear their legal expenses?

Interestingly, the Stockholm/PriceRunner ruling invites Android claimants (rival search services, browser vendors, OEMs even?) to plead continuation past 2018. This could at least provide solid economic incentives to comply with the related DMA obligations - quickly. 

PriceRunner v. Google

Ruling here.