FTC Tech Summit on AI
I finally had time to watch the AI tech summit very well-organised by the US Federal Trade Commission on 25 January. I’ve tried to note some key points from each speaker.
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Author: Ian Brown
Notes from the Next World Order
Cristina Caffarra’s annual competition-fest today in Brussels was as speaker- and content-packed as ever. As well as much discussion of the eagerly anticipated deadline for Digital Markets Act compliance in five weeks, it was a fascinating look beyond narrow antitrust policy to competition policy linkages with industrial and trade policy (with lots of AI on the side).
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The randomness of US technologist views of the EU Digital Markets Act
Technology policy and regulation continues to need more input from technology experts. But please techies (I’m one myself): learn a little about policy and regulation as well?
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Apple and Microsoft fight DMA designation of iMessage and Bing
It’s popcorn time: the European Commission will tomorrow publish its first list of the “core platform services” it has designated under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and hence are subject to its obligations. Today’s Financial Times reports that Apple and Microsoft are pushing back against designation of iMessage and Bing.
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Is TikTok a DMA social networking service or video-sharing platform?
What type of service is TikTok under the Digital Markets Act? And should an interoperability requirement be applied to its new Twitter-like service?
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Should UK intelligence agencies get easier access to “low-sensitivity” datasets?
Our responses to chapter 3 of Lord Anderson’s review of the UK Investigatory Powers Act, on the use of bulk datasets with “low/no expectation of privacy” by the intelligence agencies.
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Generative AI and market power: What role for antitrust regulators?
Many thanks to Tommaso Valletti and Cristina Caffarra for organising this spectacularly good panel on antitrust and generative AI. It’s well worth watching in full, but I’ve tried to capture some key points.
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Questionable assumptions on regulating open source AI
This Guardian article is helpful for containing so many of the questionable assumptions behind calls to strictly limit open source AI tools.
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German competition authority publishes final messenger sector study
The Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) has been undertaking a long-running sector study of the German messenger (and video services) market, and today has published its final report. I wanted to add a few comments to elements of the report, because without a close reading of the DMA’s provisions it is easy to draw incorrect assumptions about implications of the BKA’s conclusions.
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How can intelligence agencies get independent advice?
The UK’s “National Cyber [?] Force” has for the first time published detailed information about its work. But how can such a clandestine agency get genuinely independent advice?
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