On the sombrero thing youtu.be/9fDsfCCPeWE?...

During AI talks, I'm reminded to run some prompts to see how things are coming along. The labelled map challenge still doesn't seem to be going well... I didn't ask for the tea-stained treasure map vibe.

And what about the rest of EU users, if I may ask? Legal text is pretty straight forward and non-compliance is obvious. What are we waiting for 🤔? @beuc.eu

"last 20 years is that Europeans have had deference and political consensus behind antitrust enforcement and broad political convergence from all sides around the need for regulation" 20 years? Hardly. It was mostly a mix of naïveté and theatrics, much under the ideological spell of our “US allies”

Is the Omnibus the wrong "something must be done"?

Enforcing digital platform regulation, one private enforcement action at a time...

"Sora 2 is being pushed in a way that seems to assume that copyright has ceased to exist overnight. How can OpenAI justify doing this? What is the plan?" what am I going to say this semester when I start teaching copyright law in the AI age 😉?

"Our companies hold more than half the global market in industrial automation solutions. We have a wealth of data. Let's turn this into real products"

"Effectively, it sounds like the FTC is accusing Zillow of acquiring part of Redfin’s business, but hiding behind the guise of a “partnership” to try and avoid regulatory scrutiny" 💡

"Conversations involving religious or political views, sexual orientation, health, and racial or ethnic origin won’t be used to customize ads or content, the company said" trust them! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

"En France, Google n’avait pas contesté les griefs et s’était engagé à modifier son comportement. 4 ans plus tard, la procédure américaine et la décision récente de sanction de la Commission européenne montrent que les pratiques perdurent" fr.themedialeader.com/usa-vs-googl...

EXCLUSIVE: The @ec.europa.eu is planning a “virtual” institute for using AI in science, says a draft strategy seen by Euractiv. The institute will include networks of excellence and get access to the EU’s AI Gigafactories. Read my article at @euractiv.com: www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...

"The new policy applies globally, except for users in South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the European Union"

"Developers complained that Apple’s tactics resulted in people abandoning the installation process. Earlier this year, the EU slapped a $568 million fine on Apple for not complying with DMA rules"

"La plainte cite plusieurs violations du Règlement européen sur la protection des données (RGPD) portant sur leur traitement, leur droit d'accès et de rectification"

European Sovereignty in payment systems at 7:55 www.youtube.com/live/6k6w7UZ... Libra triggered a lot of reflections already a lustre (!) ago, where are we now?

While we don’t always agree on how best to achieve this, we share a core belief: democracy is essential and competition policy it’s about safeguarding democracy itself.

"The settlement comes as Google is under pressure from the Justice Department to break up its ad businesses after a federal judge ruled this spring that the company had created a monopoly in advertising"

"“Around 75% of the new players benefiting from European regulation come from the United States,”" she said - a feature, a bug, something else 🤔?

Protecting consumer data (aka privacy) is Antiamerican! "U.S. trade authorities also say that, by protecting consumer data that PIX collects, the Brazilian government is hurting American companies that use such information to make business decisions and develop new products"

Direct assault on a public Digital infrastracture (PIX) by Trump: sending a message? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

"...signal to consumers everywhere that A.I. isn’t an unstoppable tsunami about to overwhelm us. Now is the time for ordinary Americans to recognize our agency and act to put in place the guardrails we want"

"The settlement isn’t perfect. It’s absurd that it took an army of lawyers to demonstrate what any 10-year-old knows is true: Thou shalt not steal" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

"Microsoft's Copilot assistant will serve as the first AI buyer within the marketplace for publishers to sell their content. The tech giant is looking to grow the marketplace's demand-side offering to include other AI products." www.axios.com/2025/09/23/m...

"The real problem, however, is that the German car industry sat back while its rivals in electric car production" Remember the car emissions cartel? An evergreen in our classes...

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Straight out of Godfather: ""So we’re going to have to either determine that that’s not what’s happening, or we’ll have to make some changes so that it isn’t what’s happening.”"

"we need only open a Latin classic, Tacitus or Suetonius — or even one of the satires, Juvenal or Petronius — to find figures very similar to those who dominate today’s political scene" depressingly so www.ft.com/content/85ee...

""This moment is dangerous for all of us because organizations are being targeted because of what and who they fund and because it is perceived that they are funding things that don’t align with the political preferences of a particular administration"" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

"“It’s a public good,” he said. “Arguably, the greatest public good the Fed has ever supplied.”"

Co-director @dacemoglumit.bsky.social participated in yesterday's United Nations dialogue session on AI, highlighted in @nytimes.com. Daron stressed that the current path of AI, which emphasizes automation, could lead to greater inequality. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

Economics of the DMA Workshop - this is the programme, very much IO dominated, what else? www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

Stay strong, Brazil legislators! Massive lobbying already underway

OLG Düsseldorf: Google haftet nach Art. 6 Digital Services Act als Störer für rechtswidrige Google Ads ab Kenntnis von der Rechtsverletzung

"a line of “AI companions” that the company has described as a “third core device” besides the PC and smartphone" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-...

"Was sie serviert bekommen, wird in Zukunft nicht mehr aus Beijing kontrolliert, wo ByteDance und somit im Zweifel auch die chinesische Regierung an den Informationsreglern saß. Stattdessen wird ihr Medienmenü künftig von Trump-getreuen Tech-Milliardären bestimmt"

From the country that invented Potemkin villages.

"complessa istruttoria, avviata a seguito della denuncia di un whistleblower" - this seems really to work, in a country like Italy: toxic culture among colleagues in many companies might help...

Meta "praised the ICO’s “constructive approach” over the issue, which it said “sets the UK apart from the European Union”" 👀 www.independent.co.uk/tech/meta-fa... #DMA

Ireland’s privacy watchdog opens probe into sale of citizens’ phone locations

An addendum to the OECD background paper on democracy and competition we have been reading in class this week 🤔?

If it's good enough for Big Oil and Big Tobacco, it's good enough for Cupertino infrequently.org/2025/09/appl...

"Aus Sicht von Kritikern ist bei der Delos Cloud jedoch keine digitale Souveränität gewährleistet, weil die Technologie unter der Kontrolle eines amerikanischen Konzerns stehe" 😳 www.handelsblatt.com/technik/ki/k...

...yep, we were also wondering about the price with my Students today

Sanzione per oltre 936 milioni complessivi a Eni, Esso, Ip, Q8, Saras e Tamoil per intesa restrittiva della concorrenza www.agcm.it/media/comuni... old school cartel?

Look at this groundswell of political support just waiting for someone to show some spine and strategy!

"The people familiar with the matter said the Commission is in no rush to wrap up the case in view of criticism from the Trump administration" wrong signal IF true - but I doubt it is...

"US investors will take over the majority of TikTok’s operations and *take charge* of a licensed copy of the app’s powerful recommendation algorithm"