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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Category: Regulation
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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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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Twitter meets key hurdle for EU regulation
In July 2022, Twitter had 61.9m users reachable by advertisers in the 27 EU member states — passing the 45m user hurdle for designation as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, and potentially a DMA gatekeeper.
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How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation
I enjoyed listening to Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke’s new book on competition policy and innovation more than I expected. How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back is beautifully written and full of zingers.
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Disinformation primer
I enjoyed writing this short (8.5pp + refs) primer on disinformation. Hopefully it will be useful to those coming fresh to the subject, or updating their knowledge.
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Competition policy vs the world
Digital competition law and economics has much to teach — and learn — from other disciplines and areas of Internet regulation
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Germany pushes ahead with details of digital competition reforms
The German Federal Cartel Office @Kartellamt has set up a working group to fully define companies with “paramount significance for
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Breaking up Google ain’t so hard to do
Given the multiple competition cases launched against Google by regulators in the last 10 days (in the US and Italy),
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