Antitrust is no longer a domestic game. Daniel Crane (University of Michigan Law School) maps how Great Powers use antitrust law as a geopolitical lever across tech, culture, finance, and even wartime supply chains. Read here 👇 www.networklawreview.org/crane-great-...

🇵🇹 I will speak at the Portuguese Competition Authority’s next Monday in Lisbon. In my talk, I will show how computational tools (and thinking) expose dynamics in emerging antitrust issues linked to GenAI, cybersecurity, plus several others.

Some legal scholars are calling to “ban AI from the law faculty”. Tonight at Luxembourg Bar, I will argue that a ban is the very, very last thing we want. A short thread.

I have just uploaded a new version of my article on 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). The goal: understand how EU digital regulation can evolve in a way that remains legally sound and operationally realistic, instead of chasing the impossible "future-proof" concept.

Yann (@yann-lecun.bsky.social) just announced that he is leaving Meta. Some media describe this as a sudden lack of interest in LLMs. Hold on. In May 2024, Yann had already said exactly that during our conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/7GhU....

France is turning into Huxley’s Brave New World. The World Controllers claim to know what is best for you. They promise happiness, they hold the expertise, you do not. Trust them.

Cristina Bicchieri (@upenn.edu) joins me on #scalingtheory to unpack how norms emerge, scale, and sometimes break down. Fascinating! New episode out now. ➝ YouTube: youtu.be/T1fmu5dRbvA ➝ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2... ➝ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2UQQ...

What happens when industrial policy moves from tariffs to invisible regulatory barriers? Daniel Spulber shows how non-tariff barriers distort trade & erode incentives to innovate. New in the NLR x ICLE special issue on competitiveness. 👉 networklawreview.org/spulber-indu...

It's out (in open acces). Nicolas Petit, Bowman Heiden and I situate the “dynamic competition approach” in relation to other #antitrust approaches. We explain why innovation rivalry demands its own antitrust method. 👉🏼 Download here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Is “industrial policy” really back? Giovanni Dosi argues it’s mostly a dystopian reboot, more zero-sum than visionary-oriented strategy. Our new NLR–ICLE special issue starts with a bang. www.networklawreview.org/dosi-industr...

Further evidence that the European Commission is using the DMA to bypass an Article 102 TFEU analysis. #Google #DMA

Here is the European Commission “Digital Omnibus on AI.” It’s a good start, but remains 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘆 insufficient. The AI Act hurts competition and innovation. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excellent contributions coming your way. Check it out www.networklawreview.org/special-issu...

Mario Draghi is right to worry about the #AIAct, but wrong about the cure. A pause won’t fix the EU AI Act. The problem isn’t speed; it’s rigidity. www.theregreview.org/2025/11/03/s...

Big crush on Barcelona. See you soon!

What’s the link between Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and antitrust policy in AI? Answer in 1h www.youtube.com/live/kLs9HpA...

Congratulations to the Conseil de la concurrence 🇲🇦 for such a great event. African and Arab countries are coming together and taking leadership on many fronts.

Last Sunday, I ran the Frankfurt Marathon and was fortunate to come in just under three hours. A short thread.

Off to Frankfurt for the marathon this weekend. I ran 785 km in the past two months or so. Time to enjoy the race. As an academic, I love that running’s outcome isn’t decided by others. It’s pure merit, yet profoundly human, because running together is what gets you there.

Europe’s pursuit of digital sovereignty will, paradoxically, ensure dependency. We spend without the means to match our ambitions, and in the meantime ignore the partnerships that could keep us in the game. The result? We’ll import what others built, without our input.

#Democracy runs on opinion. #Futarchy runs on beliefs. Robin Hanson joins me on Scaling Theory to discuss why governance might often need to run on market logic. • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6UFN... • YouTube: youtu.be/tXc9rukqZ4s?... • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/s...

The EU's "future-proof" AI regulation is a fantasy. AI evolves through emergent properties—GPT-1 to GPT-4 was metamorphosis, not iteration. We need future-responsive regulation, not monuments By @profschrepel.bsky.social at @networklawreview.bsky.social www.networklawreview.org/schrepel-fut...

Happening today! Search for "Annual Conference on European Competition Law, 16–17 October 2025" to register. I’ll argue that recent Art. 102 cases and the DMA now fully overlap, which turns complementarity into an echo chamber. 🌀

Despite repeated calls for transparency, the EC gives little detail on how it handles contributions. It fails to explain why ideas appearing in multiple submissions are dismissed, and instead (often) cites the volume of contributions to justify one-sided proposals. We can (and should!) do better.

You’d think innovation plays a central role in digital antitrust cases. Well, well, well… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Timing coincidence? The European Commission is just fining Chloé (among others), the fashion house founded by Philippe Aghion’s mother.

Many congratulations to these three brilliant economists! I’m especially thrilled to see Philippe Aghion among them. Philippe wrote the preface to my PhD thesis… a gentle reminder that correlation does not imply causation 😅

I’ve just updated this database compiling all initiatives taken by antitrust agencies on generative AI www.networklawreview.org/antitrust-ge... I hope it proves useful to some of you.

New Antitrust Antidote: Apple case moves ahead; per se tying theory on Hermès doesn’t fly; alleged algorithmic/benchmarking collusion suits stumble on pleadings... All you need to know about recent U.S. antitrust cases is here: www.networklawreview.org/antidote-7/

In this piece for Times Higher Education, I suggest a few simple experiments that any professor can run to see how GenAI impacts their own students. I hope this proves useful to some of you. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t...

Here are @profschrepel.bsky.social’s monthly reading suggestions: DMA & EU users, killer acquisitions, auditable AI, AI Act political economy, GenAI & democracy, AI agents in econ, adaptive regulation + a special issue on law, tech & econ of AI: www.networklawreview.org/september-20...

www.nber.org/papers/w34194 Interesting one. Market power persistence isn’t about lax antitrust enforcement. It’s the technology + learning dynamics that give certain cohorts lasting dominance.

New essay out. The AI Act multiplies review clauses, delegated acts, monitoring obligations. But it lacks true adaptive capacity. In complexity science terms, the EU has built “sensors without reflexes.” I hope this resonates with colleagues working on AI governance.

Skip the speculation on GenAI’s promise or peril – @profschrepel.bsky.social proposes hands-on teaching experiments to uncover its true effects: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t... #GenAI #AcademicSky #EduSky #AI

NEW OP-ED. AI evolves every week. European regulations, every few years. The result: a widening gap between the speed of innovation and the slowness of legislation.

Let me say it as it is: the newly launched Amsterdam Center for Digital Competition has secured the best acronym I’ve seen for a center: ACDC. This is close to genius. I am delighted to have been invited to it to give a talk on #computationalantitrust later today. More to come!

NEW #computationalantitrust paper. Using computational text analysis, Sean Norick Long (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) shows how Lina Khan reshaped antitrust beyond consumer welfare toward workers, power, and a more moralized public debate. Link: law.stanford.edu/codex-the-st...

For the first time, I recorded a solo episode of #ScalingTheory. I take a deep dive into adaptive regulation; why “future-proof” laws fall short, and how we can build rules that truly evolve with technology. I hope you'll enjoy the format.

Today at the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

New episode of the #computationalantitrust podcast. I talked with @nancyscola.bsky.social about the interplay between computational antitrust and antitrust reporting. Nancy had so many great insights. I very much enjoyed recording it, and I hope you'll enjoy listening to it.

Here is a summary of the #computationalantitrust event at the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social. In a word: computational antitrust is here! At the OECD, agencies shared how they’re building tools, infrastructures & teams to enforce law with code. The frontier isn’t adoption, it’s integration!

1/3 — I ran a 10-mile race this weekend in the middle of my Frankfurt marathon prep (in about 1h03, anticipating the question). It reminded me of two reasons (among many) why I love running so much as an academic:

🤗 pro.politico.eu/news/204967 + papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW article by Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, President of Portuguese Competition Authority. He argues that AI disruption demands a new regulatory ecosystem where competition law works hand in hand with other public policies www.networklawreview.org/cunha-rodrig...

Heading to Paris (Université Paris II) to present my paper “Adaptive Regulation” for the first time (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) at a conference co-organized by the amazing Godefroy de Boiscuillé. The program (fondation.assas-universite.fr/fr/evenement...) looks outstanding. Join us.

On my way to Paris. Cheers from windy Amsterdam.

Great coverage of my ChatGPT experiment www.altalex.com/documents/ne... 🤗 (the experiment: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)

On my way to beautiful Belgrade 🇷🇸 for a great conference at the University of Belgrade. Come and say hi (also going for a run in the morning 🏃) internetdijalog.ius.bg.ac.rs/en/

Getting closer to D day 🤗

A good way to enter the weekend macdemarco.bandcamp.com/album/guitar