Report from the Vatican

 G. Marcus, here.

Google and Bing back one robots.txt rule to opt out of AI training

 PPC Land, here.

The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech

 G. Sitamaran, here.

Apple approved the fix. Then it called the developer a liar

 P. Shoemaker, here.

Meta und die Verlage: Wem gehören journalistische Inhalte?

 FAZ, hier.

AI Overview et AI Mode : une coalition inédite d’organisations françaises d’éditeurs dépose plainte auprès de la Commission européenne

Megazap.fr, here.  

Meta pledges to consult publishers...🤬

 Nieman.Lab, here.

Why should people listen to them? Stop those cozy regulatory dialogues for good. This is just too serious. 

Google begins certifying Registered App Stores for Android, but not in the US

 ArsTechnica, here.

Norwegian Media Companies Prevail in Court Against Meta

 Here.

The EU's Big Business Battle

 RTE Radio, here. 

Biden’s Antitrust Enforcers Are Starting an A.I. Legal Company

 NYT, here. 

Fascists Thrive On Bad Economics [Industrial Organization is Rather Bad Economics, Hence...]

 The Economic Populist, here.

Can competition policy and industrial policy jointly strengthen competitiveness - and where do potential tensions arise?

 ASCOLA 25 November 2026 | 14:00 CET | Online, here.

SCOPING STUDY ON AI TRAINING AND COPYRIGHT

 WIPO, here.

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

 EC, here. 

Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All

 Politico.com, here.

Meta needs to draw a clear line between providing a service and appropriating rights from their business users

 EPC, here. 

[I took part in the WIPO negotiations leading to the Marrakesh Treaty, representing the Italian Library Association. At the time, I found the EPC utterly insufferable, fiercely resisting any broadening of copyright exceptions for people with visual impairments. We had to fight hard. This time, however, they seem to have perfectly legitimate reasons for their position. Still, I cannot quite shake off my reservations about them - still holding a grudge!].

 

Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising

 ArsTechnica, here. 

ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with Lina Khan and Tim Wu at Columbia Law School

 

Here.

Helena Malikova should be a public icon by now, says Isabella Weber in her book. I agree! 

Call for Papers: Competition Law in Motion — New Scholarship for a Changing Field

 Here.

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Sues Ope­nAI and CEO Sam Alt­man for Lying to Users and Harm­ing Texans

 Lawsuit here.

Meta delays rollout of terms that would allow broad scraping of news sites. Legal experts are still skeptical.

 NiemanLab, here. 

Musk’s Starlink Sabotage Exposes Europe’s Kill Switch Vulnerabilities

 M. von Thun, here. 

Meta delays AI business terms amid media sector outcry

 

The Rapporteur, here. 

There was clearly political pressure on the CMA, and the CMA found a way to exert pressure on Meta (talking about a long overdue designation, possibly?). Which raises a further question: has the European Commission really done nothing/very little, as the media piece would suggest (e.g., no talks of an interim measure under whatever regime)? Or is there so much going on behind the scenes that we mere mortals can only speculate? 

Le code a changé - Comment Waze vous déroute

 Arte.tv, ici. 

Don't get me started. When Google was allowed to buy Waze I was already well into having given up on merger control... 

Zuckerberg is staking Meta’s future on Muse, the personal AI agent it released to the general public last month

 The Verge, here. 

A bit of hope in Zuckerberg's creative self-destruction then!  

Interoperability vs. Security: Why not both?

 EFF, here.

U.K. politicians and German publishers call on regulators to pause Meta’s new terms before October 30 deadline

 NiemanLab, here. 

Minding your business

 Ada Lovelace Institute, here.

Strategic compliance narratives: Platform governance under the DMA and DSA

 L. Weigl, here.

Fairness as Equity, Honesty and Justice: An Exercise in a Multilingual Analysis of the DMA

 P. Hubkova, here.

Publishers want Brussels and London to stop Meta’s new AI terms

 Politico, here.

While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat

 TechCrunch, here. 

Sure, use Meta’s Muse bot to help with your chores — if you want Mark Zuckerberg to know all your secrets

 LAT, here. 

Please, remind me. How risky you say is sideloading, Google?

 AndroidAuthority, here. 

Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity

 TechCrunch, here. 

Progress and Trends in the National Open Source Policies and Legal Frameworks

 OSOR Report, here. 

FTC v. Meta: High Hopes?

 Here.

Epic: Australia

 

Judgment here. 

The People's AI Assembly

 

AI Now Institute, Video here. 

New Economic Thinking on Competition Policy

 

Beyond Dependency Enforcing EU Rules Against US Big Tech

 L. Quaritsch, here. 

Socialists push for EU law on deepfakes

 Politico, here.

Exclusion of AI competitors from WhatsApp

 EC, here.

When Are Third-Party Browser Engines Coming to iOS? & Fixing the Mobile Web App Ecosystem

 Amazing Alex, here.

Commission to investigate how Booking.com combats scams and fraud under the Digital Services Act

 EC, here.

Scaleup- Perspektive: Warum die DMA- Durchsetzung über unsere Wettbewerbs- fähigkeit entscheidet

 GetYourGuide, here.

Recommendation Power: Platform Objectives and the Digital Markets Act

 Jens-Uwe, M. Peitz, hier.

Fighting Wall Street’s Monopolies

 C. Dougherty, here.

CMA defending the indefendible with a perfectly straight face (two, actually)?

 Watch here. 
Among other exchanges, I loved MPs asking the CMA whether they knew what Meta was doing and what they were doing about it. “But Meta isn’t designated”, just after assuring everyone they had enough funding and were doing everything they needed to. Apparently, designating Meta wasn’t on the list. You do have to wonder.

The CMA is apparently thinking *very, very, very hard* about everything it's asked about (so we heard from the CEO, at least). Somewhere between all that thinking and actually doing anything, the whole thing seems to deflate, however.

 

Don't get too angry, relax...

Former General Court President on Taking Legal Risks in EU Competition Enforcement

 The Capital Forum, here.

Merz rollt Amazon und NVIDIA den roten Teppich aus Nicht jede Investi­tion ist eine Erfolg­sgesc­hichte

 Digitalrechte, hier.

AI Hype Helped Google Dodge an Antitrust Breakup. What Comes Next?

 Tech Policy Press, here.

STOP Meta's new crawling clause

 T. Höppner, here.

How Big Tech runs down the clock on EU gatekeeper rules

 Repporteur. here.

The Eurosky Identity Platform is now a Digital Public Good

 Eurosky. here.

Anhörung zur 12. GWB-Novelle

 Bundestag, hier.

102 Guidelines: a missed opportunity that will haunt EU competition policy for the next decades

 For a much more positive view see: 

See for instance I. Weber, here.

The Open Web has an Apple Problem; with Gene Burrus

Monopoly Report, here.  

A Data Science Playbook for Social Justice

 Tech Policy Press, here.

Yep

 

The $5 Trillion AI Bet You’re Already Paying For

 Agents of Tech, here. 

Regulating the tech sector in the AI era

 MarketPlace, here.

Takers and Makers: Who are the Real Value Creators?

 M. Mazzucato, here. 

Proposed decision: SMS investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem

 CMA, Provisional decision here. 

Indicative roadmap, here.  

Appendix A: Market power assessments here. 

 

Competition and Data Protection: Time for Some Intellectual Evolution?

Listening yesterday to the EDPB–European Commission stakeholder discussion on the interplay between competition law and data protection, I was struck by how deeply entrenched certain ways of thinking remain. On the positive side, the DMA has undoubtedly served as a laboratory for the kind of cross-disciplinary learning which is needed. Its implementation has forced both communities to confront questions that cannot be adequately addressed from within either discipline alone. In many respects, this is where some of the most interesting intellectual and regulatory evolution has taken place.

In the broader competition policy/data protection arena, what we need now is not simply more cooperation between authorities, or further guidance on how two distinct legal frameworks interact. We need something more fundamental: an evolution in the way each discipline thinks, incorporating insights from the other into its own analytical framework. And with AI reshaping both the uses of data and the sources of market power, this intellectual evolution is becoming increasingly urgent.

AI adoption more than doubles in almost every EU strategic sector

 JRC, here. 

400 publications are now partnering with us on our News AI pilot program

 Google, here.

Old enough to remember dozens of pilots masquerading abuses. 

More ways to connect with the web from Search

 *Google*, here. 

Evidence on publisher traffic? Otherwise likely only "dialogue fog"

EU Commission is in dialogue with Google, spokesperson says

 Reuters, here. 

Opinion of AG Biondi: ByteDance Ltd v. EC: The right to be heard is not a right to have the last word

 Here.

The enforcement framework of the AI Act

 EC, here. 

CV278 - AI, avviata istruttoria nei confronti di Suno per clausole vessatorie

 AGCM, qui. 

Booking/Etraveli: EU General Court Upholds Commission’s new Template for Digital Merger Control

 Mayer Brown, here. 

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say

 NiemanLab, here. 

The New Gatekeepers: How AI Chat Interfaces Block People From Their Banks, Insurers, and Student Loan Servicers

S. Nguyen, A. Teitelbaum, here. 

Unplugging Big AI

 FOTI, here. 

Marktcheck deckt auf: Hinter den Kulissen von Google

 ARD, hier.

Book review: Cecilia Rikap, The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI andthe Cloud (Verso, 2026)

 R. Griffin, here.

EU, EU, It’s off to work we go

 Vivaldi, here.

EU’s AI rules face first enforcement test over lab incidents

 EuroNews, here. 

Wettbewerb der Zukunft

Monopolkommission, hier.

Antitrust In Time

 D. Lawrence, here.

An Open Letter on AI and Cybersecurity from the Scientific Community

 Here.

Sanofi's commitments and case closed: who won?

 EU, here.

German search engine ditches Mistral, bets on Chinese open-source AI

 Politico.eu, here.

Digital Markets Act (DMA) Gatekeeper Designation Tracker

 Louven.legal, here.

Verbraucherschutz im Agentic Commerce

 SVRV, hier.

Google’s general search services: proposed user choice conduct requirement

 CMA, here.

Egalitarian Antitrust

 E. Bietti, here. 

DMA Vox Populi Episode 6

 

YouTube, here.

PeerTube, here.

Panel: Beyond the DMA? Fitting the DMA Within Europe’s Digital Rulebook | The DMA in Practice

 Capitol Forum, here. 

How Capitalism Really Works (with Anwar Shaikh)

 Video, here. 

After many decades doing mostly digital...

 

Dacci la nostra Lina quotidiana

 Here.

"Io sono Giorgia Meloni"

 Here.

Teens Who Can’t Put Down TikTok and Instagram Are Losing Their Sense of Time

 WSJ, here. 

Apple may soon track when Google promotes Chrome inside Safari

 9to5Mac, here. 

Shaping the future of AI standardisation in Europe

 JTC 21, here.

Consumer protection authorities ramp up action to protect gamers' rights

 EC, here. 

How Europe can escape a captured ecosystem

 F. Kaltheuner, L. Saari, here. 

Paris Conference: Monopoly or Liberty?

 Rebalance Now, here.

Prezes UOKiK stawia zarzuty Google

 Tutay.

Who speaks for Little Tech?

 Vivaldi Blog, here.

It’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics

 The Sling, here.

Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout

 Here.

The economic costs of weakening privacy and data protection

 Commissioned by BEUC, here.

The Dismally Obedient Science

 C. Alves, here.

A Real Digital Omnibus for European Competitiveness and Security

 Robin, here.

Retour sur la conférence « Monopoles ou libertés »

 C. Lavin, ici.

Google keeps displaying self-preferencing in Search sanctioned by the European Commission after 60-day compliance deadline

 The Others, here.