Rapport de l’Autorité de la concurrence au titre de la pratique d’autopréférence définie à l’article L. 442-12 du code de commerce

 Adlc, ici. 

CLOUD SERVICES MARKET INVESTIGATION: FINAL CUT

CMA, Summary of final decision here. 

Full 637-page Report here. 

Appendix A-W here. 

This is already the new Bible on 'cloud services and competition policy.' This colossal work will feed into worldwide antitrust and DMA-like analyses and enforcement actions, both public and private, for years to come. 

But, you know, the "CMA has indicated that no decision will be taken by the CMA Board on future SMS designation investigations in 2025 but that it will keep under review possible options and it anticipates that these will be considered in early 2026"...

Martijn Snoep: Antitrust & Industrial Policy. Independence or Coordination. Champions. Latest Cases

Tools available to make markets work 

Chez Oles, here. 

Impressive, brave interview. 

 I'm perhaps a bit more positive about the long term impact of the DMA: it's going to evolve (that was the legislators' will), it creates new, important rights for end users and business users, and it is already influencing competition policy in a positive way. But it was never supposed to act in isolation (again, as foreseen by the legislators - see e.g. the HLG). Plenty of potential in many directions...

 

 

Listening to how the ACM has come to see itself as "market designer," I was reminded of this 2017 "no AI" generated image I used at a conference in Brazil (found back by chance while writing this).

Competition in the Provision of Cloud Computing Services

 OECD, Background Note here. 

(Already on my syllabus).

CMA's Cloud services market investigation

 Competitive landscape working paper, here. 

Egress fees, here. 

Committed spend agreements, here.

L'economia dei dati nell'Intelligenza Artificiale

 

Video qui. 

European cloud customers affected by restrictive licensing terms for existing on-premise software, new [paid for] research finds

 Savanta, here. 

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers

 TechCrunch, here. 

La CNMC inicia un estudio sobre los servicios de nube

 Aquì.

Cloud Computing RFI: What we heard and learned

 FTC, here. 

Trust-busters come for AI’s building blocks

 Politico.com, here. 

Ofcom refers UK cloud market to CMA for investigation

Ofcom, here.  

Final Report here. 

France set to regulate cloud market more than EU

 Euractiv, here. 

70% Of Generative AI Startups Rely On Google Cloud, AI Capabilities

 Forbes, here. 

Updated version of the Teramo Cloud Presentation

 Here. 

Amazon wehrt sich – jetzt ist der BGH am Zug

 WBS, hier. 

Ofcom cloud consultation: responses published

 Here (only 8)

Google Cloud’s response to the FTC’s call for public comments

 Here. 

AI Startup Anthropic Raises $450 Million for Safety-Focused Chatbot

 Bloomberg, here.

Google’s cloud business turns profitable for the first time on record

 CNBC, here.