A city does not need to hang a “no cell towers allowed” sign to keep wireless service out. It can get there the quieter way: deny one permit, then another, …
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The global antitrust wave over Big Tech’s artificial intelligence deals has reached Brazil. The question is whether Brazil’s competition authority is paddling into a real breaker—or mistaking regulatory chop for …
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The AI talent wars have produced a steady stream of stories that seem tailor-made to confirm everyone’s worst suspicions about Big Tech: nine-figure pay packages for star researchers, entire startup …
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Competition enforcers appear to have discovered their own version of artificial intelligence: act first, learn later. In the span of a week, agencies across four continents moved to reshape how …
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The first review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) reads less like an evaluation than a wellness check performed by the patient’s proud parent. The pulse is strong. The color …
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California is once again testing how much punishment capital will tolerate before it packs a bag. The state’s impending ballot proposition imposing a “billionaire’s tax” has drawn plenty of attention …
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Europe wants to become an AI continent. Fair enough. But it will not get there by turning the cloud into a customs checkpoint. The European Commission’s new European technological-sovereignty package …
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Under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), consumers are apparently sovereign—right up until they choose the wrong thing. When Mozilla reports that Firefox is now selected through a DMA browser-choice screen …
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Europe wanted technological sovereignty. On June 12, it got a demonstration of technological dependence. That day, the U.S. government cut non-Americans off from access to two of the world’s most …
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The easiest way for the government to censor speech is not always to ban it. Sometimes, it is to find someone else with a hand on the switch. That is …